Currently you have to use a Opacity map for this. .PNG alpha support is on the horizon.

James wrote:WiKKiD: I saw the skull and instantly though "Alas, poor Yorick I knew him Horatio"

Then I saw the quote above it XD

WoOt!
Well maybe I'll get an honorable mention this time around. LOL

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now ...

understand wrote:nice tips.

(mumbles something about dds support)

+1 on that mumble!

radiance wrote:

falcon76 wrote:But we need to create a dedicated opacity map or we can use the alpha channel of a PNG file?

currently it's a dedicated image.
i could add png alpha channel support in beta3.

Radiance

Major +1!!

@Chris

You have me curious, what are you using to employ PTEX? when i read about it, it was just a library that you could develope on, not an actual program. I'd love to fiddle with it myself.

Can you not export them to regular UV maps?

You could try exporting it to a .OBJ file and then recalculate the normals in Blender.

CTRL+N recalulates normals to face outside.

I had the same issue. Had to install the DEV version of 197.13 to get it to come around. Rendering now and looks awesome!
http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cuda ... loads.html

**Whew**

OK, I getcha. thanks for the reply.