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Smart material layer with transparent color?


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I think that you cant do that.

 

But if you start erasing the layer 0 and play with the other layers transparency you can create a glass like material , tested by me and it works fine.

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Thaks ajz3d it works great!  Except now new layer depth overrides depth of layer below, so I loose all bump detail from below. But I can workaround it decreasing whole layer opacity.

Yes, this looks like a limitation of Smart Materials. I think there should be some sort of a droplist to control blending mode of each channel and an alpha map slot to mask them individually.

You can work around this (sort of) by creating separate layers for each channel (one for depth and one for glossiness) and add an alpha mask to those layers. It should work for simple set-ups at least:

 

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So this is why those ticks are there for right?

 

Thanks a lot man.

Initially all what those checkboxes did was to hide channels from the UI. Fortunately this was changed in version 4.5.05. (http://3d-coat.com/mantis/view.php?id=1905)

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I think that you cant do that.

 

But if you start erasing the layer 0 and play with the other layers transparency you can create a glass like material , tested by me and it works fine.

I tested that some in past, and it just make everything transparent, even specular is erased, so it doesn't look like glass for me. Unless you know how to make layer transparent and preserve specular reflections?

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