Teach me how to do translucent 'net' curtains

[tricky]

Quite a few of our images call for transparent curtains -like privacy ones, not blackout ones.

Normally, I do a wavy line and extrude it up, but I am never sure what the correct texture is. I thought a white vray2sided material would suffice, but I cannot get it to look very transparent with either the value close to black or close to white. At the moment, I also have a grey vraycolour in the opacity slot.

Is there the 'proper' way to do this?

[Björn Radler]

http://www.ronenbekerman.com/material-curtain-v-ray/

Try this tut !

Good luck .)

[tricky]

http://www.ronenbekerman.com/material-curtain-v-ray/

Try this tut !

Good luck .)

I'll take a look. Thanks.

It appears that refract is used rather than opacity. I wonder what the pros and cons ared of using refraction with an IOR of 1.01 against using simple opacity?

[Björn Radler]

As far as i know opacity is a render time killer.

But i might be not right with that.

[Neilg]

Using a falloff so it gets more transparent at flat angles helps a ton with the effect. I've always used opacity but I guess refraction works too.

[pixela]

My tutorial