Okay, what I'm looking to do is create a black mesh waste basket. My problem is, the color black makes things transparent so the black mesh texture I'm using wont be seen.

If I wanted a white basket or a red basket, no problem works fine, but because the texture I want to use is black, against the black background it doesnt work. I'm sure there is a workaround, any ideas?

I'm using targas. Maya 2008 and I want to render it in Mental Ray.