BUG?!? PaintFX and semi-transparent objects

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# 1 24-09-2002 , 07:12 PM

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I ran into a weird problem. Let's say i make a nurbs plane and a sphere on top of it. Then I add some pfx grass on the plane and render -> it's ok...an example follows:

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But if you paint a tranparency map to the sphere the pfx sees the whole sphere transparent thus showing the grass through the whole object:

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Isn't that weird? Do you get the same results? I think it's a bug.

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# 2 24-09-2002 , 07:22 PM

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is this in version 4 or 4.5 kari?

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# 3 25-09-2002 , 07:48 AM

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Just talked to a fellow mayaer and it seems to happen in both version. Can you verify?

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# 4 25-09-2002 , 07:49 AM

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ok ..ill have a look today...just off to work, ill let you know

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# 5 27-09-2002 , 07:40 AM

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sorry kari I was thinking that I answered this post yesterday doh..... yes indeed you are right ...when you paint a tranparency map to the sphere this does infact happen, well it did in mine!

how utterly wierd! there has to be a way around this... how wierd

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