Tiff and transparency

[awnold1]

when I save a tiff with layers and transparency in photoshop then plug the texture into a maya lambert, for example and choose 'default' it automatically plugs the tiff into the color and transparency giving a nice cutout.

with the vray material, will it recognize the transparency of the tiff, when I plug it into the opacity slot? From the looks of it, it does not. the opacity slot is only looking for a black/white image. This is unfortunate because I would rather not hassle with making a black/white image, plus it always seems when I do make a black/white image, it never is an exact match, which is not good. any suggestions?

thanks!
Matt

[vlado]

You should be able to connect the output alpha of the image to the RGB components (all 3 of them) of the opacity slot in the V-Ray material.

Best regards,
Vlado