do maya fluids not have an alpha channel?

[DJ_]

Yes, fluids have alpha.

Did you by any misstake render your image into a format that doesn't support alpha? (Sorry for the srupid question, but sometimes the solution is within the simplest thing)

[CGOrange]

haha, nope, tga.. yeah that mistake would be right up with not having the alpha checkbox checked. :) thanks for letting me know that they do have alpha, now I know it must be a problem with my scene... so I can troubleshoot... thanks much

[CGOrange]

yeah, I don't have maya documentation installed on this comp.... :( it makes learning new things so much harder and makes me ask simple questions on cgtalk... :)

[CGOrange]

yeah, i should have just did a test with a new scene :) a new fluid works find with the apha..
So its a problem with my scene or the preset flame that I modified

[apoc519]

the flame presets do have really bad alphas. Usually I turn the alpha gain to about 3 to get a proper alpha

Usually when compositing fire you use an "add" or "lighten" so the alpha isn't so important

[CGOrange]

ahhhh, the alpha gain! thanks!

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