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I am trying to come up with a string transparency for a command module falling to the ocean. How can I make the string really transparent compared to the rest of the model?

I should mention the string is a texture on a cone

transparencies are made with the alpha chanel the darker your map the more transparent something gets..
Peter

Ok, so I have a jpg of some white lines with spaces in them and a black background. I use this as my texture, then for the alpha channel, I did the inverse of the image - black lines with white background, is that the correct way of accomplishing this? How do I make the 'map' darker?

netrate wrote:Ok, so I have a jpg of some white lines with spaces in them and a black background. I use this as my texture, then for the alpha channel, I did the inverse of the image - black lines with white background, is that the correct way of accomplishing this? How do I make the 'map' darker?

You can make it black and white in photoshop.. and yes it sounds correct if not just inverse the alpha map..

Make sure 'flt' box is unchecked on the color and transparency maps.

So that is the "map" and the texture should be the INVERSE of this?