I made this same thread in the wrong topic so im re-posting it here sorry, noob error.

I'm going through 'Learning Maya 2009' and have found myself a little lost.

Here is the part im up too https://www.rzav.net/learning/texture-maps.html

Drapes' texture, color, and alpha channel displayed

It asks you to 'create a Lambert shader with a mapped File texture'.

It then goes on to say "Maya software will automatically detect and connect the alpha channel to the
transparency attribute of the Lambert shader."

but it doesnt seem to be doing this for me, heres a screen of my try.



Any help is appreciated, thanks.