No matter what model is 50% transparent
by Francisco Morales · in Artist Corner · 03/22/2007 (7:23 am) · 7 replies
Okay, no matter how i create the .png, in show pro tool the entire object is about 50% transparent.
I am using photoshop CS, i have tried the plug-in thats supposed to fix the .png problem to no avail.
Things I have done:
1)have no alpha channel
2)have an entire black alpha channel
3)have an entire white alpha channel
4)have the part of the png that I want semi transparent to have about 90% opacity
5) do nothing, no transparancy anywhere
I have done all these things and no matter what, the entire object is 50% transparent. I just do not know what to do anymore as I have read post after post and nothing fixes it. I am using maya 7 fyi
I have put a solid black png on the model and it sill has 50% transparency, so simething wierd is going on
I am using photoshop CS, i have tried the plug-in thats supposed to fix the .png problem to no avail.
Things I have done:
1)have no alpha channel
2)have an entire black alpha channel
3)have an entire white alpha channel
4)have the part of the png that I want semi transparent to have about 90% opacity
5) do nothing, no transparancy anywhere
I have done all these things and no matter what, the entire object is 50% transparent. I just do not know what to do anymore as I have read post after post and nothing fixes it. I am using maya 7 fyi
I have put a solid black png on the model and it sill has 50% transparency, so simething wierd is going on
#2
03/22/2007 (7:18 pm)
Unfortunately the exported will not load, nor will it work with the DTS utility. It seems maya wants to make any .png file 50% translucent no matter how the png is constructed. 
#3
03/22/2007 (7:30 pm)
See if the little "ghost" button in showtool is pressed. That's the only thing I can think of.
#4
03/22/2007 (7:41 pm)
Nope not pressed....I even put a solid red png file on the object and it still renders 50% transparent.
#5
03/22/2007 (8:53 pm)
Nope not pressed....I even put a solid red png file on the object and it still renders 50% transparent.
#6
just have your texture in color.
03/23/2007 (9:43 am)
Think the problem you have was adding your png to the "transparency" node in common materials attributesjust have your texture in color.
#7
03/23/2007 (3:58 pm)
Wierd, when you do the maya tutorial posted it tells you to have the pngs alpha masked to that channel.as well as it happening automatically when you map the .png to the color channel..so maybe that needs to be updated. The tutorial where you create the sphere and apply a png with the words alpha on it. 
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