How to create realistic fineer with all its properties?

[spawnreaper]

I want to test some lighting effect in fusion 360 using fineer wood. The main feature of the material I want to test is its capacity to let light shine though it. Real fineer is so thing that it is capable of doing that but I am unable to alter an exciting wood material in fusion 360 to slightly let light pass though it.

Is this a material that needs to be added or is there another way of simulating this material.

[YoavFriedlander · Accepted solution]

You can select a material from the appearances that has translucency and add your own texture (image) of veneer - the combination of translucency properties, the texture (image) and possibly if you'd like to go far adding a bump map to give it a 3D surface behavior together might get you closer to where you think you should be! 🙂 

I will say that I am not sure how translucency works together with relief pattern/bump map - the bump map should create an added surface texture/ depth but I don't know if it will create variation in translucency of light 🙂 

here is how I take a regular glossy paint from the appearance panel, apply it to the "veneered" layer or object and then right click on the material from the panel on the top click edit and it will open a modal window with all the optional properties 🙂 you can replace the color of the paint with an image - which is your texture but for relief pattern you'd have to either make one yourself or get a packaged texture (a folder with all the image ingredients - file for image texture, and file for matching relief pattern) 

here is how to edit the properties in Fusion 360:

[g-andresen]

Hi,

Put a transparent material over your wood.

günther

[spawnreaper]

I think I managed to create a new material based on an existing wood using the Manage materials option. 

[YoavFriedlander]

@spawnreaper AWESOME!!!!!

[spawnreaper]

how would that help increasing the transparency of the wood itself?