#maya help

i’ve been trying to make a plane render with an alpha channel in the arnold renderer. So far i’ve succeeded in making it transparent, but for some reason it renders the plane in white, instead of the colors that are supposed to be on the diffuse map 

^heres the set up for the material 

^here’s what it looks like in the render 

^ and here’s the diffuse 

Going back to add detail to my Proxy model, will probably go back and redo the whole thing later when I have more time though- I’ll need more than a week for that one. (A few polygons are flipped somewhere, so I can’t export this to Modo) 

Thanks for the question! I looked it up, and it seems to be happening if your scale tool options are set to something like “Normals average” while you are also non-uniformly scaling your object. When doing so, even when scaling only X, the transformation is “baked” into the components (aka the shape node) instead of appearing as a non-uniform scale in the channel box.

I don’t see how this will come back to bite you as long as you’re just modelling and have no deformers acting on the mesh - but if you simply RESET TOOL so the scale axis goes back to OBJECT, it will no longer happen.

I need help ;A;