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Thank you!!!

Can I somehow have Twilight see the materials in the Sketchup plugins folder as well as the Kerkythea material folder? Or do I have to copy from Kthea?

thanks!

Thanks Fletch, never saw that before!

I just tried it with the exploded image, shifted it to make sure it wasn't snapping under the surface and it works with no shadow!! Thank you!!!

Fletch, the problem is that this is the surface underneath. I tried importing the disk model and not making it a component in the component menu. I can see it now in the unrendered state, and it looks like it's right on the surface but when I explode it, it gets all messed up again like the above pi...

Fletch, I exploded the image and what I get is attached. I also attached what it looks like in SU. Very weird but it highlights something else. While in SU the image never sits on top of the disk. I guess where it's at. It renders and I can see, it but it's almost like it's behind the material face ...

Anything from 1-7 (high+) is showing this. I do need to clarify that the sun is on a one inch disk, so the edges overhang and that's why they show up. When right up on a surface, it doesn't show up even in the lower quality renders. It DOES disappear when doing the interior render (9 and 10) even if...

Here you go, Fletch!

Hi Fletch!
I tried the png. No dice. Buuuuut, I did use a higher quality render with the png (Interior rendering) and the transparent film didn't show up; so that might be the ticket.

Thanks!!!

Michael

I placed a tif file( with the white background converted to transparent) in my model. It's a sticker of sorts. Looks great but when I render, the clear aspect of the tif is showing up. It looks like a reaaaaaally thin layer of transparent plastic. It actually casts a shadow. I've imported it as an i...