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# 1 11-11-2011 , 04:14 PM
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Help!! mental ray texture with transparency

Does anyone know how to apply a texture with transparency to a mia x material? I exported the file from photoshop which was a tiff, and put it in the diffuse, but it's not working. Thank you

# 2 11-11-2011 , 04:20 PM
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you mean the transparency is not working or the diffuse is not working?

for transparency why don't you plug the texture into transparency?

# 3 11-11-2011 , 04:57 PM
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Thanks for the reply but I think i might of quoted it wrong. I mean a texture that has an alpha on it. For example a weave pattern in a chair, I cut out all the holes in it, then saved it as a tiff in photoshop. When I bring it into maya, all the holes that I cut out aren't there anymore they are black.

# 4 11-11-2011 , 05:12 PM
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so do you have the alpha plugged in to the transparency?

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