GAH! The one thing, above any other, that drives me nuts about Carrara is that the transparent textures I use in it, in short, aren't. At absolute most, they're slightly less opaque at 100% than at nothing, but that's rare and in fact stuff seems to be not only not getting any less solid, but actually glowing, when I use procedurals. Is there some stupid function that I left on and overlooked that is doing this? Is there any way around it? I'd kinda like to be able to use Carrara's better renderer and effects, rather than an increasingly ratty copy of Ray Dream (which can take more than two days to render a minute of movie), but transparency is unfortunately a rather important thing in a lot of the renders I do and if it just permanently sucks I might as well toss my copy in the trash...