Transparency on part of a textured surface, how to?

Support Materials and Textures
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Suppose I have an object like a carpet. Modelled using plane 1mm over the floor surface.
The image of an antique carpet I have is slightly warped and I would like to leave the crescents formed between the perfect rectangle of the plane and the uneven shape of the mapped rug transperant.

I turn the border between the circumscribed rectangle of the carpet black and assign an alpha channel?
I know I can add alpha channels directly in 2-D images but what image format carries it along? or do I have to bring a separate image of it? on a different texture slot?

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You can use .png or make another texture as an alpha mask - a greyscale image which only describes the alpha.
Here are settings for making object transparent by using included alpha channel in a .png texture

alphasettings.jpg669×987 109 KB

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Thank you.
Just what I was looking for.