object won't stay transparent

Hi all,

I have poseball (white, no texture) linked to a bar stool, and want to make it transparent. I select 'edit linked parts', high-light the poseball, set the transparency to 100%, and apply.
The poseball is nicely transparent, until my avi uses the stool and jumps off again: now the pose ball's got its opaqueness back.
Taking it into inventory, when it is still transparent, and rezzing again won't help.
How can i make the transparency stick?
Any tip is very much appreciated

Cheers,
Ella

It sounds almost certain that the script in the pose ball is controlling the pose ball's visibility.

Try saying "/hide" or "/1hide" near the pose ball. Most pose ball scripts have a chat command to toggle visibility of the ball when not in use. ("/show" or "/1show" makes them visible).

One other thing to try. Attempt to just touch the pose ball. Some scripts (rare) toggle the visibility with a touch.

It must be that the poseball's script is resetting it during some state. Probably the poseball is scripted to make itself disappear when sat on and reappear when released - and the script can't tell that you set it transparent before it set itself transparent. So if you have editing on the scripts, you need to fix that, otherwise you need to take it back to the store and ask for customizing.

The poseball script is almost certainly just setting alpha. Even if you don't have mod perms on the script, if you have it on the prim (which you must, since you set transparency), instead change the texture of that prim (and *only* that prim) to full-alpha. (You'll need a full-alpha or "transparent" texture, or a script that uses the UUID of a full-alpha texture.)