From what I understand, the texture itself is transparent, or rather frosted transparent. I didn't make the texture file, so I'm not exactly sure. Let me paste...
newmtl glass
Ns 96.078431
Ka 0.000000 0.302000 0.000000
Kd 0.671373 0.730980 0.749804
Ks 0.500000 0.500000 0.500000
Ni 1.000000
d 1.000000
illum 2
EDIT:
I had another AHA! moment. I forgot that the transparent materal still does have two sides. I was texturing the one side outermost and forgetting to texture the "underside" with the same texture. Even when the underside doesn't show normally, you still have to texture it or it will have what my friend told me was " x,y,z battles" I guess most rendering programs still have trouble with figuring the "dominant" side on a curved item when both sides are textured, especially with tranparencies. Or that is the information I recieved.
Does this sound logical to you? (that is a general you for anyone who reads the thread)
No wonder some of the product design people I know feel such a sense of accomplishment when they are done with a model.. lol... there is alot to think about. Makes me wish I had gotten started on learning 3d sooner.
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