Alpha in maya?

[Whirlwind]

What do you mean? How to render out an alpha channel in Maya or how to apply one to a material?
-D

[tobyWong]

Apply one to a material.

[Whirlwind]

If your doing it thourgh a UV map, which I assume you are, just apply a the file image (a black and white picture of your alpha matte) to the transparency in the material editor. If you need more specifics just let me know.
-D

[tobyWong]

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So you can't just use the alpha from the image file like in max?You have to have a separate file? weird. I would have guessed A/W would have incorporated that.

Thanks Whirlwind :D

Peace:scream: ,
-Toby

[dstripinis]

you just have to pipe the alpha out into the transparency of your shading network. it takes like 1/2 of one second and it's even possible to automate it or even alter Maya to automatically do it whenever a texture is added via MEL.

[tobyWong]

Stupid hypershader(I sill use the multilister most of the time- I know "What the hell is wrong with you?!"...lots of things.)

Thanks... I think I got it working.

-Mr. Wong

[erwin1978]

I created a nurbs plane and applied a black color and transparency to represent hair strands. I created a nurbs ball behind this plane. I have a single directional light pointing. I can see the ball through the plane but there's no hair stripes shadows falling on the ball. Raytrace shadow on the light is enabled. How do I fix this?

Also, is this a good way to make a hair? It's pretty simple. I want to get that hair shine. However, the only shine I see is a halo on the plane and not on the individual hair strands.

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