Note: English is not my mother tongue, so please forgive possible mistakes =)

My problem: I cloned bracelet with a skull, enabled transparency, and added a tranparency map, but texture of any other accessory is still can be seen on the parts intended being transparent, like this


I know that the other creators who had this problem before, solved it somehow, but unfortunately they failed to share how exactly! I have read though all the threads on this sub-phorum and some on others. Can it be so that I've missed something?

emhpb (author of "Fun With Alpha Accessories" tutorial) mentioned some extra steps needed to be done to enable transparency if you are making a new mesh. Does somebody know what steps did s/he ment?

Nobody discovered wich shader to use to enable transparancy yet, it aint possible.
You could use a glasses file for it but then you wont be able to recolor it( well, you can but i forgot how.....)

you can however make alpha edits on the texture files and when done change the shader into the one used on the store hula skirt, its how i make alpha clothing.

Or you clone a accesoire that is already alphaeditible
There is a EP accesoire that you can use for it, i think emhpb included a clone in her tutorial

Changing the shader is alot of work
You basicly make your file in TSRW and when done you convert it to package.
The package you open with Postal or S3PE and extract the GEOM's(meshes)
Those meshes you open in MIlkshape and under the comments you change the last TGI reference and below in the following:
Cant remember if the last TGI reference(the skeleton) is needed but i included it just to make sure.

TGIRef03: 00AE6C67 01011379 00000000 DFB87FF8
EmbeddedType: DC077A45
EmbeddedSize: 308
EmbeddedLong000: 464E544D
EmbeddedLong001: 00000000
EmbeddedLong002: 00000074
EmbeddedLong003: 0000000B
EmbeddedLong004: DAA9532D
EmbeddedLong005: 00000001
EmbeddedLong006: 00000001
EmbeddedLong007: 000000C0
EmbeddedLong008: 29BCDD1F
EmbeddedLong009: 00000001
EmbeddedLong010: 00000001
EmbeddedLong011: 000000C4
EmbeddedLong012: 6E56548A
EmbeddedLong013: 00000004
EmbeddedLong014: 00000004
EmbeddedLong015: 000000C8
EmbeddedLong016: 73C9923E
EmbeddedLong017: 00000001
EmbeddedLong018: 00000003
EmbeddedLong019: 000000D8
EmbeddedLong020: 6CC0FD85
EmbeddedLong021: 00000004
EmbeddedLong022: 00000004
EmbeddedLong023: 000000E4
EmbeddedLong024: F755F7FF
EmbeddedLong025: 00000001
EmbeddedLong026: 00000001
EmbeddedLong027: 000000F4
EmbeddedLong028: C3FAAC4F
EmbeddedLong029: 00000004
EmbeddedLong030: 00000004
EmbeddedLong031: 000000F8
EmbeddedLong032: 05D22FD3
EmbeddedLong033: 00000001
EmbeddedLong034: 00000001
EmbeddedLong035: 00000108
EmbeddedLong036: 3BD441A0
EmbeddedLong037: 00000001
EmbeddedLong038: 00000003
EmbeddedLong039: 0000010C
EmbeddedLong040: 04A5DAA3
EmbeddedLong041: 00000001
EmbeddedLong042: 00000003
EmbeddedLong043: 00000118
EmbeddedLong044: AD528A60
EmbeddedLong045: 00000004
EmbeddedLong046: 00000004
EmbeddedLong047: 00000124
EmbeddedLong048: 3F800000
EmbeddedLong049: 3F000000
EmbeddedLong050: 00000000
EmbeddedLong051: 00000000
EmbeddedLong052: 00000000
EmbeddedLong053: 00000000
EmbeddedLong054: 00000000
EmbeddedLong055: 00000000
EmbeddedLong056: 00000000
EmbeddedLong057: 00000001
EmbeddedLong058: 00000000
EmbeddedLong059: 00000000
EmbeddedLong060: 00000000
EmbeddedLong061: 41A00000
EmbeddedLong062: 00000001
EmbeddedLong063: 00000000
EmbeddedLong064: 00000000
EmbeddedLong065: 00000000
EmbeddedLong066: 3F800000
EmbeddedLong067: 00000000
EmbeddedLong068: 00000000
EmbeddedLong069: 00000000
EmbeddedLong070: 00000000
EmbeddedLong071: 00000000
EmbeddedLong072: 00000000
EmbeddedLong073: 00000002
EmbeddedLong074: 00000000
EmbeddedLong075: 00000000
EmbeddedLong076: 00000000


Note,
You need to make your package first with TSRW, CTU doesn't include a transparancy map when cloning a accesoire or outfit.

Edit,
ill have a attempt myself(again) to see if i can solve this
Oh, btw, did you enable transparancy at the bottom of the texture tab?

Yes, I enabled transparensy, and tried to clone both EG necklace and glasses - the same result, plus when cloning accessories that support transparency, multiplier (I think, or transparency map) goes wierd... though, I'm planning to try again with the last TSRW version.

And I'll try to chage shader, thank you)))

Btw, I found this alpha accessory by Rose (accessories, page 14, http://www.rosesims2.net/),

this is exactly what I need. Could you perhaps take a look at it?

Those are most likly cloned from the EP accesoire, its the one of the 2 files that supports alphaedits(and the store skirt)
The 2nd one is a mummy outfit(i have been told, never checked it tho)
The problem lays within the bonehashes assigned to the skeleton, those, the shader and the mtnf settings give you alphaedits, transparancy, glass etc etc.
Did visit her site but im not going to browse all accesoires to look for the one you posted(direct link maybe?)