Hey guys,

I am transitioning to maya 2013 and I am having a strange issue with transparency toggling for no apparent reason when I apply a material with an image applied to the color channel.

Here is a video to show the problem. Does anyone know why this is happening and how to make it bloody stop because it's making me lose my mind!

I thought it was because of inherent alpha support in png files and the image I was using said it was 32bit. But I tried it with a 24bit jpeg and I get the exact same behavior. The image initially comes in with transparency and then if I go downstream of the color channel the transparency toggles!!!

https://youtu.be/65iYasAgqpE