Maya 2014: Transparency map issue

AviKohl3D

I'm trying to use the alpha channel of a targa file to cut out portions of the hair bangs for a character. So I plug the file's outAlpha (with Alpha is Luminence checked) into the shader's transparency RGB via the Connection Editor and it makes the entire hair object semi-transparent as seen in the attached pic. I'm at a loss here.

I need to get this character done by tonight and did not expect to run into this obnoxious bug.

Addendum: This bug happens when I plug in monochrome procedural textures into the transparency slot too.

monster

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you. I usually just assign a targa to the color slot in the Attribute Editor and it auto assigns the Transparency. Like in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-Zrx62EmMM&feature=youtu.be&t=12m30s

AviKohl3D

That vid seemed promising. Followed the steps, had to manually assign the outAlpha to the shader's transparency (wouldn't do it automatically) and got the same bug.

Thanks anyway

UPDATE: Decided to plug a black and white jpeg version of the texture into the transparency and it renders as intended. Still looks semi-transparent in Viewport 2.0 but I don't care.