I use a mentalray mai material x shader, in the advanced dropdown plug a alpha into the cutout opacity(will post one I have done for a leaf to see what I mean) make shore the alpha is luminus is ticked in the file node..........dave
Edit: the good thing about this shader you can you another transparencey layer in it
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Last edited by daverave; 11-05-2011 at 09:02 PM.