Cycles and materials

Hello

I’m new to cycles and i’m having some trouble working with it.

I’m trying to import “image as plane” with the plugin. the size of the plane is good but somehow the material comes without the image it self (no texture), just a blank white diffuse.

Another problem is with append materials from other files, it is also comes with no images.
i tried to import also the textures alone, but blender does not load them.

When import image with alpha, the alpha area is not full transparent, how can i solve that ?

and last question, in my project there is sand storm which i’ll add later on, does cycles know how to render particles well or shell i work with internal render engine ?

that’s it for now
Thanx
Erez

Oh and Cycles does not yet support volumetric rendering (meaning particle systems)

There go you must!
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Cycles
Cycles can’t render a particles system at the moment, unless you set it to instance an object