topic Re: How do I make a material with a faded bitmap image with adjustable amount of base colour? in Arnold for 3ds Max Forum

How do I make a material with a faded bitmap image with adjustable amount of base colour?

nano_langenheim — Tue, 21 May 2019 03:08:38 GMT

Hi there,

I would like a material which has a jpeg image mapped to my object with a colour overlay. I want the amount of colour overlay to be adjustable (In Mental Ray and Vray the percentage of map can be adjusted but this is not possible in Arnold standard material).

Any clues?

Re: How do I make a material with a faded bitmap image with adjustable amount of base colour?

lee_griggs — Tue, 21 May 2019 07:27:24 GMT

There is the Mix shader and layer shaders.

Re: How do I make a material with a faded bitmap image with adjustable amount of base colour?

nano_langenheim — Wed, 22 May 2019 06:12:14 GMT

Ok thanks - I am teaching this to eighty students many of whom have never used 3dsMax before. I previously used Mental Ray and Vray until last year when MR was removed. I am finding it reasonably challenging to find relatively simple alternatives to Mental ray workflows using Arnold.

Thank you for the links to your help files - these do however make assumptions of prior knowledge and require some finicky adjustment. Would it be possible to provide a screen grab of the simplest version of an Arnold material with above mentioned requirements - preference for something that only has 1 child map?

Re: How do I make a material with a faded bitmap image with adjustable amount of base colour?

Anonymous — Wed, 22 May 2019 06:43:08 GMT

Something like this?

You can also multiply/offset a color by default in the arnold image node if you want to simplify it.

Re: How do I make a material with a faded bitmap image with adjustable amount of base colour?

nano_langenheim — Wed, 22 May 2019 07:00:38 GMT

Thank you Michael,

that is entirely PERFECT!!!!

Re: How do I make a material with a faded bitmap image with adjustable amount of base colour?

nano_langenheim — Thu, 23 May 2019 00:31:00 GMT

Thank you Michiel Van Gasse,

Video of his suggestion for this problem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq8BnPPpSlI