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# 1 11-07-2006 , 11:49 AM
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Alpha Channels in Mental Ray

Hi, I just started playing around with Mental Ray Shaders, so this may be a basic question, but I can't seem to figure it out. I applied one of the shaders to a simple sphere, just to see how it looks, and while it renders color, it doesn't have an alpha channel. Do I have to turn this on? If so where?

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in the MR render setting find the custom entities and turn on alpha pass
 
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Nice one Vlad, I did and absolutly awful job of trying to describe that in Xanders thread!!
 
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