For those of us who don’t remember things: On my simple cube object, and when rendered with Iray, my black circle has the following effect: The Opacity/Transparency MapĪnything that’s white on the map we’ve applied is rendered with full transparency, while anything black appears fully opaque in our render (hence it’s difficult to describe this map either as opacity or transparency map because technically it does both). There’s also a value that’s set to 1 by default, giving you the option to apply how “heavy” you’d like to apply your map. Set the value to 0 and your whole object will be transparent set it to 1 and it’ll use your map with 100% strength applied. Mine is white, with a black circle on one face. The first one in the list is labelled Cutout, and it lets you apply a Cutout Opacity map. With your UV mapped object selected, head over to the Surfaces Tab and take a look at the Geometry Channel in your material. Let me show you how to apply one in this article. This might sound a little confusing, because opacity is the opposite of transparency, and only one map is needed.

DAZ Studio’s Iray render engine can’t handle transparency data embedded in such images and requires the use of a special Opacity or Transparency Map. While a PNG, TIF or GIF file can contain transparency data, a JPG image cannot. I mainly need to add a Dusk/Dawn section to the products page But of course everything is at Rendo now so going there is always a good idea The only thing is that is unique to my website is some older Mil Horse and DH2 products.Transparency is handled differently across render engines and file formats. I will make this foal SBH avaiable at some point when I figure out how to distribute it, for those who prefer SBH.Īlso FYI I finally was able to do a load of updating on my website. One I want to start work on is for our Gorilla for Dusk. And I still can't get it render very fast.so I'm not sure how much time I will spend working up SBH for our HW critters. Obviously some PAs at Daz have figured out how to work around those things but ugh.lots more work. Also there is no mirroring of your stylng etc which is a mega pain for fur.as well as no ability to 'turn on' selecting only the hairs facing you as opposed to the ones on the other side you can't see. But what that also made me realize is that the selection tools and the styling tools again are a lot harder to use for fur as opposed to human hair on the head. I watched a very good long video tute on it and now have a much better understanding of it. So again I am again thinking 'garibaldi'/ds sbh hair really is a lot more for use in making human hair. Got busy dealing with other things in life. So I've been meaning to post these later SBH attempts.

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