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Old 31-10-2003, 05:31 PM   #1
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In LW 7.5 I loaded up an old 5.6 scene of mine which had a pretty little Galaxy object in it which uses a transparency map. Without raytraced transparency it renders transparent but turn it on and the bugger shows up as a solid. Now I'm no newbee to LW but this one got me spooked, so I'm thinking "Is this another Mac user extra feature?".
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Old 31-10-2003, 06:57 PM   #2
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If your useing shadowmaped spotlights thats where your problem is. You have to use Raytraced lights.
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Old 31-10-2003, 07:21 PM   #3
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Nope no shadow maps are used.
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Old 01-11-2003, 02:14 AM   #4
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Thanks for your response Johnny9ball.
Guess I was having a bad day, of course raytraced transparency isn't going to work when the background image is used as just a backdrop (which I neglected to check before griping). Doh! So many LW things don't work properly on a Mac it's sometimes too easy to get into that kind of mind set when you are in a rush.
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Ya its always the little things that are stumpers, usually with easy solutions.
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