This is an example of the alpha channel (mask) now being saved out in .tif files (this is from the image in my previous bug report). I _used_ to be able to make slections from the alpha channel in Paint Shop Pro for doing compositing, but as you can see, that's no longer possible. Again, this was using the production renderer, but happens in draft and P4 renderers as well. Please tell me this is being fixed ;). Thanks, - Keith

Keith it's not a bug report unless you send the CL tech guys an Email, you did do that didn't you?

I am in the process of creating a list - which I will send along to CL-tech, but that never got me replies in the past, so I thought I'd start here ;).

lol, well anythings worth a try.

Im happy someome is showing the bugs.my p5 wil arrive next week , and so i know where there are bugs and dont find out myself or thinking i did the mistakes

They already know about this one. What's interesting though is if you use this alpha to float the object, it does it correctly as if it were not irregular. -Jeff

JeffH is right; the selection marquee looks bad when you load from the alpha channel, but it still works properly. If you invert the selection (SHIFT-CTRL-I), the marquee suddenly looks perfectly normal. The alpha channel itself seems to be fine. Could it possibly be a display issue with Paint Shop Pro, instead? Does the same thing happen in Photoshop?

Yes the alpha appears that way in many apps.

It might look correct if you invert the alpha, but there is background color of a very low opacity data left in the area that appears transparent. Run your eyedropper tool over the flaky areas in the mask after you use the mask to remove the background and see how there are rgb values there where there are none in the areas that are truly transparent. That keeps one from cleanly cropping to the outline of the figure rendered. There is no easy way to bring the alpha selection up around the the edges of the object. I have been rendering twice if I had to use the firefly rendered, the 2nd time with Poser 4 renderer. It might save the alpha inverted sometimes, but it is clean and the alpha in tifs or psd files can be re-inverted in my software.

Oh for crying out loud, what next? As far as I'm concerned, this one bug makes Poser 5 useless to me until it's fixed. I've purchased every previous version Poser sight-unseen, but I'm very glad that I took a chance and waited on this one. The bugs and flaws are one thing, but how a company can forget to include the figures' texture templates and other content on the CD is beyond me. Thanks for pointing this out Spanki, I appreciate it. Take care. SnowS Hoping his pictures are worth 1001 words.