Urgent, Please HELP!!!

[jtiscareno]

Guys, I really need your help on this one. We have a big competition tomorrow in the morning and I am only missing one key material for the rendering but do not know how to achive it.

 

We are doing a parking garage and we have a metallic mesh on it, I dont know how to make this material. Tried already to put a mask on a basci material, I can see the chainlink decal on the sphere but I still can see the grey sphere. I need it to have the holes on the fence, only need the grid of the fence and nothing else.

 

How can I get it to work. I am using Viz 4 and Brazil.

 

Thanks to all.

[quizzy]

Use an alpha masked TGA file as your bitmap or in your opacity channel. and when using Brazil, don't use a brazil std material, but use the max's standard material. It might take some time longer to render, but the brazil material gives me black "shit" when I use alpha masks for opacity...no matter how high I set the sampling...

ow and be sure to put your alpha mask in your shinyness and specular level channels as well... and if its raytraced, use the mask as a mask... ???

[jtiscareno]

Quizzy, YOU ARE THE MAN!

 

Thanks a lot for the excellent tip, it worked like a charm.

 

I will post tomorrow (after a long night of work) images of the parking garage with the metallic mesh.

 

Again, Gracias!

[Jim Mann]

Just had a similar problem using Brazil on a mesh screen in front of a parking garage last week. As quizzy says, stick with a max standard material with supersampling rather than a Brazil material for that particular element otherwise you will get moire patterns from hell.