alpha not showing in viewport?

FEMTO

HI guys, another newbie question from me.firstly, just to let you know i am using 3d max 7 and have applied an aplha channled map onto my model to show some areas that should be see through. now for some reason when i do a render the translucancy shows up, however how can i do it so that it shows up in my view port? what do i need to have checked? thanks

rooster

right click on 'perspective' (or whatever view you want it to show) go down to transparency and make sure its set to 'best'. Thats the first place to look, let us know if that does it or not

FEMTO

its already set to best...hmmmm

rooster

how are you doing the transparency, is it using an embedded alpha or a seperate bmp? Sometimes Ive found it a bit tricky to get embedded alpha working, and its easier to save it as a bitmap and load that into the opacity map

other thing Id try is go to the opacity map, click the blue and white checkered box under the material spheres, then go up to parent and click it again (I don't know how scientifically valid the last one is but it seems to have worked for me before)

thnom

http://www.horribledeath.com/tut-alpha.htm Thanks DH not me

I've also found using PSD as the texture is fine but using the transparency in that it doesn't like. TGA is fine.

FEMTO

thanks guys worked out my problem from that tutorial...so thanks again!