Opacity map, and refraction VrayMap

[Axel]

hello everybody,

I'd like to make a SSS of trees and leaves. well, only the leaves actually.
But I'm stuck on the opacity map of the leaves. as soon as apply refraction, I loose the opacity map control, and all the leaves render as pure plane geometry (black geometry).

what am I missing ?
Should I model the leaves ?

cheers,
Alex.

[Da_elf]

on www.vray.info i wrote up a itle trick file for creating opcity maps the easy way using a blend material

[Axel]

no links

Da =)

Thanks for the rpley, but I couldnt access this www.vray.info link. And cant find EFNET also ... I guess you've abreviated it, and I'm kind of new to mirc.
could you send me those again ? no abrev (if any) ? =)
Thanks in advance,
Alex

[egz]

what kind of error are you getting when trying to access VRay.info?

[Axel]

it stays there trying to open the page for a while.. than goes to "We can't find "www.vray.info"

[egz]

sounds like a DNS error on your side then, you should try to contact your ISP about the problem.

You can also try to add the IP to the HOSTS file in windows.

In win2000 the file is here:
C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts (no file extension)

open it in notepad and add the following lines after the localhost line:

63.99.224.11 vray.info
63.99.224.11 www.vray.info

[Axel]

oh boy ... seems that I cant really access it. Did the HOst file thing .. no biggy... tried http://vray.info ... nada also.. talking about a bad weekend.

Thanks anywaus dude... I'll try to C what's up with my server.

Cheers
Alex.