WIP help needed

[Linda]

as you can see on the bottle label has a problem with the opacity why does this occour the label are duplicated polygons from the bottle.
I have used the same technique for the glass but you can't see the problem there.

material used for the label is standard max mat with no glossines or reflecions.

[deneb26]

hi spirit1,

check the alpha-channel of your map,
set the the transparent areas to pure black.

ale

[Linda]

Deneb: thanks for your reply but i must be stupid or something where do you mean in the opacity option of the material i have put a gif map black and white do i have to do something else?

[deneb26]

could you post the map, so we can take a look at it.
thanks.

greez
ale

[Linda]

here it is

[jujubee]

Sometimes I can fix opacity by simply checking supersampling in the materials with defaults on. See if that takes care of it.

[deneb26]

it seems that the white isn't 'real' white, but i think that
won't explain your problem.

generally i would use 32-bit tga's with the alpha-map included.
the boarders of your gif-picture (black/white) are quite sharp and jaggy.
create an alpha-channel in photoshop and save the map as a tga.
hope this will help.

nice evening to all
ale

[Linda]

i changed the material to vray and now it works.

thank's for your help

[Ron Martin]

You know why it works now?

The missing transparency of your label were simply reflections.
If you use any shader containing a highlight you have to map the specular
level too to make it dissapear on totally transparent areas of the geometry.

[Linda]

thank's Ron i didn't know that, it's good to know why as well not only to get it work but the reason why it didn't work in the first place.