[Tyrone Marshall]

Confirmed. It seems that only the clip map channel is working with the metal material.

This is the same situation with the max plugin as well, no opacity or shades of grey supported, just white and black, either on or off.

[Tyrone Marshall]

Thanks for the confirmation!

-MonkeyBoy

A work-around to this issue would be to somehow convert the grey map information to black and white fine dither pixels (dots). Then it becomes a density approximation of the opacity shades which would be a 60% solution, with 100% being support of opacity maps.

Anyone know a technique in photoshop or painter for doing this?

[znouza]

Thanks for the confirmation!

-MonkeyBoy

A work-around to this issue would be to somehow convert the grey map information to black and white fine dither pixels (dots). Then it becomes a density approximation of the opacity shades which would be a 60% solution, with 100% being support of opacity maps.

Anyone know a technique in photoshop or painter for doing this?

convert to indexed color with two color palette (b&w), try some dithering methods to select the best one

[Tyrone Marshall]

Thanks for the confirmation!

-MonkeyBoy

A work-around to this issue would be to somehow convert the grey map information to black and white fine dither pixels (dots). Then it becomes a density approximation of the opacity shades which would be a 60% solution, with 100% being support of opacity maps.

Anyone know a technique in photoshop or painter for doing this?

convert to indexed color with two color palette (b&w), try some dithering methods to select the best one

Thanks, I will give this a try using the cinema4d plugin.

I think this will give a lot of room for new possibilities using this alpha-map approximation method for opacity maps in maxwell render!