I thought I understood transmaps--I've certainly used enough of other peoples and looked at a lot of them. I made a transmap--made everything black on the texture map except for the part of the jacket I wanted to show, saved it as a .jpeg (orig. as a .tif, but changed it). Then I brought in Phil's morphable jacket (just cause it was easy to find that template), used a texture I had already done for it, applied the transmap, made the transparency 100%, made EVERYTHING white finally, took all the reflection settings off, etc., etc., etc. Still, I get this sheer bottom on the jacket. What I want to do is be able to create something and 'take out' portions. As an example, if I was going to do this jacket short or with a scalloped edge or whatever, you would only see the shorter jacket with the sculptured edge and not see any sheer 'bottom'. What in the world am I doing wrong??? LOL--OBVIOUSLY something. Diane B