Tutorial by: hjacobs
March 24, 2004

8. At this point, your X will probably turn green or whatever color you have in the box at the lower right. Using the eye-drop tool, select the area that you want to be transparent. Be sure to check the Transparent box. As you can see, the sample display should now show your transparent areas. Click OK

Congratulations! You’ve just created a transparency map! If you’re like me, you’ve probably learned more in the last 10 minutes than the rest of the week so you better call it a day and let give your noggin a rest. The rest of you stick around cuz we’re going to add another level of realism to this material. The black lines for the transparency map are great, but we want our fence to be a metal texture. To do this, we’re going to add another map on top of our transparency map.

9. Back the Material Editor, under the Maps tab, choose Add.

10. Select stainless_steel.jpg and click Open

11. In the Image Mapping dialog, click OK