VIPER and Transparency
 

Forgive me asking this if it is something I should have already found (but a quick search or two brought up nothing). I am using VIPER to tweak some surfaces, but things that are transparent (a.k.a. glass) just render as the "background" color that the Surface Editor uses.

For example, if I set the Surface Editor background to a checkerboard, the VIPER display shows my glass surface as a checkerboard. If I use black for the background, black shows up in VIPER.

The glass I modeded is sitting in front of a plane with an image map on it. When I actually do a rednering (F9), I see the image "through" the glass, but VIPER does not show this.

Am I missing something, or is this normal?

I go now to read the manual......

There are some things that viper does not do like showing any raytraceing effects like Refraction Reflection.

Well, at least that means it's not my machine and/or video card! :p (I was starting to think my vid drivers may have had something to do with it, but I'm glad that's not the case!)

Thanx for the assistance!

You could try to put a backdrop in the scene; you can't see raytraced refraction but, as viper can display backdrop reflection, at least you get rid of the checkerboard or black background :)