What I am trying to do is make Sara's right arm/hand transparent. Seems simple enough - at least I thought it did. What I did was make a test texture and blacked out the right arm, hand and nails. Then made a transmap, whiting out everything I wanted to show up and blacking out the right arm, hand and nails. Then I made a MAT using MATPoseEdit. I open up Sara in Poser 5, and apply the MAT. What I get is Sara with a solid black right arm, hand, nails. The desired effect is a transparency of said limb - much like Andygraph's IT.A.01 Cyborg's transparencies of P4 Woman. Would someone please point me in the right direction? Point out what I am doing wrong? Am I missing a step? Gah - I've been at this for 8 hours now - and my sanity is hanging by a thread. Much thanks in advance. -Todd

Is there a reason you're using a MAT file? Applying the transparency map directly would be a lot easier.

Stewer said: "Is there a reason you're using a MAT file? Applying the transparency map directly would be a lot easier." Thanks for the reply - I did try using the Material Room to apply the Trans map - by creating a new node and inserting the transmap image. However, I got the same results (actually I did this first, then thought maybe I should use MATPose Edit). Is there a different way to apply the transmap? -Todd (who's brain is fried)

Stewer - Thanks for the picture - I appreciate it very much. I was doing it correct (the way you illustrate). However - 8 hours later I found out what I was doing wrong - and your post confirms it. I could laugh myself silly. I did not set the trans values to 1.0000. God, I feel so defeated! Anyway - again, much thanks for your time and effort. -Todd