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gangshow2003
10-05-2009, 01:03 PM
Hi all!

I have been trying for ages to get a transparency ramp working correctly on a cube and couldnt do it. The I switched to a sphere and it worked as I thought it should straight away! Can you use animated ramps (or normal ramps at that) on a basic polygon cube? For some reason maya doesnt like ramps on cubes for me.

Cheers,

Simeon
phix314
10-05-2009, 05:43 PM
What exactly is the effect you're after?
SmallPoly
10-05-2009, 06:02 PM
If you're using Max and are doing what I think you're doing, then you're using a gradient ramp for transparency on a cube, and want it to be opaque on one end and fade to transparent on the other end. The default UVs on a cube in Max are not set up for that, so you would need to add a uvw mapping modifier and use a planar map to fade it out. you may want to set it to use UVW channel 2 to keep from interfering with the diffuse map.
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