use Transparent color for gap in cloth texture

[uwe_bertele]

Hi,
Is it possible to assign "transparent" as the Gap Color in the Cloth Texture?

[MANUEL_MOUSIOL]

Can you elaborate what exactly you mean or referencing to and trying to achieve, please?
I don't understand yet..

[uwe_bertele]

Meanwhile I have contacted support and they confirmed this is not supported currently. The texture cloth consist of threads and gaps between the threads. I want to set the “gap” color to be transparent.

[MANUEL_MOUSIOL]

I came to this thread via the chaos common sub forum and have to say I have no clue about what texture cloth we are talking about haha This sub forum is quite confusing

[Peter.Chaushev]

Long overdue reply (and with the assumption V-Ray for SketchUp or Rhino is being used), but here it is, nevertheless:
The V-Ray TexCloth texture can be slotted (instanced) in both Diffuse and Opacity material slots.
The instance used for opacity needs to be wrapped in a Color Correction texture and using the CC controls adjust everything that is not a gap color to appear as pure white while the gap color appears entirely black.
Same workflow can be applied to textures of other types.



Kind regards,
Peter