Is it possible to load a transmap and have the visible portion of an object be translucent? If so, how do I go about it? I want to just just the skirt portion of this dress as part of a bigger outfit, and I want the red section to be translucent and the white section to be completely transparent.

If the dress is built in pieces, like "top" and "skirt", then you can make the top invisible by selecting it in the materials window and setting its transparency for 100%. You can also look in the hierarchy window and see if it's in pieces there (like left collar, right collar, chest, and abdomen) and turn them off. Failing all that, you can easily build a transparency map to apply to just the top.

gorgeous dres. I would think that if the two areas are seperate materials you could do that, simply make the red portion only slightly transparant...

Alas, the dress is all in one piece. I was thinking of "fudging" it by using black and white pixels alternated on the skirt portion (I use this technique to make boxes translucent in web design) but I was hoping someone had a more elegant solution for me. ;) I don't understand remapping all too well.. I suppose I could redo the materials using the grouping tool in Poser to separate out the top portion?

For my image to work I need to be able to see the legs of the bodysuit through the skirt.

Ooh, good idea on the heirarchy editor. Let me look into that. =)

Umm, greyscale pixels show up as translucent.

The heirarchy thing helped (saves me the trouble of dealing with transmaps for the extraneous portions of the dress) but I am still not sure how to load a transmap AND make the skirt translucent. As you can see, I have cut out some sections of the dress using a transmap. Poser is so irritating sometimes. =D This should be simple.

I tried grey, but it didn't do anything. Does it have to be a specific grey value?

A-hah! Thanks Valandar, I figured out what I was doing wrong. My "grey" wasn't *really* grey. On a hunch I converted the transmap to greyscale and it worked.

Thanks guys. =)

now I'm confused are the colours on the dress above the defaults? I thought they were 2 different "materials"

Nope, I was using the red to block out my transparency map so I could see what I was doing better.

Can't you split the skirt apart in UV mapper and make your own groups? That is what I do? Sharen

Yeah, I could. But this works. I wanted to make it as easy as possible. I am doing an EverQuest portrait for a friend of mine and didn't want to go through remapping and such if I could avoid it. =D

Can you split it into two groups in UV mapper (you're a PRO now, you know! g), and then use the group tool in Poser, - assign materieals to each group.. That might work. Britt