I've been trying to conduct a little expermiment, but i came up on a snag. i am trying to make a beveled cube semi-transparent (about 90%) and I want to apply a decal. problem is, I don't want the decal to have any transparency at all. i've tried two ways, one, change the surface property of the group (didn't work) and two, I've tried to make a material and apply it, but it still made the decal transparent. is there any way for me to make the group semi-transparent, without it affecting the decal?

You need a decal with alpha ,set as cookei-cut or tranparancy
heres one to try

well, that woks a little. the colour in it gets washed out though

you also need a transparancy map. Take the alpha channel and save it as a seperate image. Then apply it as a transparancy map. Then apply your cookie cut image.

Sorry that a cooke cut ,you need a transparancy map/decal and you need to cover all sides
sorry Holmes

so, the decal thing didn't work out so well, so i found a different way of pulling off the effect i wanted, and that was using layers. i wanted 2-D panels, so i just drew in corel draw what i wanted, setting the trancparencies where i wanted, exported as a tga and imported into AM as a layer in the chor. works quite well too. thanks for your suggestions though, i actually learned something new about decals from this!

Decals work well, if you use it with the right (or no) lightening.
However I sometime run into it, that PNGs where a little to bright when imported... so try tgas if pngs doesnt work out.

*Fuchur*