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#Opacity map problem

    19-Jul-91 14:40:49
Sb: #Opacity map problem
Fm: Noah Kennedy 70233,3103
To: Yost Group 76702,413
We're trying to make things go progressively opaque and then transparent. We're opacity mapping applying a simple flic to a material that goes from pure white to pure black- other than the opacity map the material has a simple color (green). We want a green object to appear on a background and then smoothly disappear. Everything works as expected, except during 10 frames in the mapped flic when the flic is 100% black (=100% transparent object). For these rendered frames, instead of seeing through the object, it becomes solid black. The next frame after shows a 98% transparent object. I suspect this is an easy one. What are we doing wrong?