UV unwraping a cylinder

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Hello to everyone.

I am trying to unwrap and texture a cylinder.
I have marked all my seams, and unwrapped the way i wanted to.

I have created a new material for the cylinder (luxrender material).
I am using a texture i created in fireworks that has an alpha map.

I am trying to unwrap it as such:

Screen shot 2011-06-10 at 4.29.26 μ.μ..png917×963 13 KB

Then i create a glossy material for the cylinder, add the texture and i get this in the viewport (and render view):

Screen shot 2011-06-10 at 4.29.45 μ.μ..png226×575 10.8 KB

This is a weird result. The bottom part of the texture seems to be ok (transparent), but the part where there’s text appears completely black.

Any thoughts on what i’m doing wrong?

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I’m sorry, i forgot to check premultiply in the UV window.

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Nope. I just can’t get that transparent texture over the glossy material no matter what i do.
Plz help!

4

What i did was this:

I used a texture that doesn’t have an alpha map. Then i used a mix material, mixing a glossy material, with another material with the texture applied, along with an alpha map set to that same texture.

Hope this helps someone.