alpha maps in Blender

ironbearxl

What should the settings be for an alpha map in Blender? I set up a color and alpha material but when I render the alpha map isn't doing it's job.

Gmanx

This should help:

http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/Tutorials/Textures/Use_Alpha_for_Object_Transparency

I wrestled with this for quite a while:

http://www.elysiun.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=52935&highlight=fire+escape

ironbearxl

Thanks Gmanx! It turns out the alpha setting was set to 1 and not 0. That did it!

KDR_11k

Man, that tutorial is overcomplicated... To avoid specular on transparent parts just set SpecTra to 0 under Mirror Transp.