So im creating an earth in maya, but I can't seem to get the transparency texture for my clouds to work correctly, I have a cloud texture, I use it as a diffuse for the cloud sphere, I plug the same cloud file into a reverse node, then the reverse node to a luminance node, which I then plug into the transparency channel for that material. Should work fine, right. Nope. I'll provide a few images so you can fully understand my problem here. If I just use the cloud texture without any transparency all the clouds will be there, as it should be.







Thanks
Skalman