Have ya all noticed that before? Has anyone attempted to work around it? What do ya mean transparent. Well not perfectly transparent just slightly like real life. Leaves are thin so light should shine threw a bit. Remember my flower in the humming bird picture? It looked fake a bit so I give it just a slight transparenty and wow what a difference. Then I notice all the leaves suffer the same fate really and you can't adjust the transparence of them because that channel has been taken up entirely with the mask function. I'm rendering right now but I have a idea on how to make it work and give try when it done. I'm just wondering if anyone noticed that before that's all.