Transparency in the Material Node Editor in Blender 2.57

Support Materials and Textures
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Since the “Mask” feature in the material’s transparency settings (good idea, btw.) was introduced, appearently the material nodes don’t support transparency anymore? I guess I’m missing something, but neither preview nor render show any z- or ray transparency.

When I load a file created with 2.55 into 2.57, the transparency works in the editor, also the “mask” setting in the imported material does not show up, so I guess, there is a link betwenn them.

Also Volume materials don’t work there, but I guess that’s not intended anyways, right?

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noone else had that problem?

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In the Material Tabs, directly below the Material Preview, open the (by default closed) Tab “Render Pipeline Options”. Here you check the box “Transparency”. Here you can choose between “Mask”, Z- and Raytracing. The Transparency tab should be active now.

Roman

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That works.Vielen Dank