neeraj shrivastava

ok… for the moment I applied alpha map separately in mantra shader and took out pass, composited and delivered this short project. Didn't have time for r&d. Anyway, glad you have shown your concern on the issue…

hi, I am using a tif file with transparency saved as texture in principledShader. This is showing well in viewports with desired transparency(snapshot.jpg). However I cannot render it as such (check the attached snaps outAlpha_1 and outCol_1). Rather the whole grid is rendering.

I am attaching the houdini file. Someone plz reply fast… thanx… I am using these things in my project.

yes sopsolver is doing the trick.

First the whole node tree was confusing. I was unable to understand how three paths were leading into the same “wire_pops_into_here” thing. Also how the sop solver was acting simultaneously… had to watch some tutorials on new particle system to understand what you achieved.

thanks awong