Does anyone know how to create this material? Rockwool

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Hi Guys, for a project i need to create this material. Megascans doesn’t have it yet :frowning:
Does anyone have an idea to create it?

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Do you need to be that up close to it in your renders? If not, I think you can get away with just slapping a diffuse texture and a slight amount of transparency?

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Hi Thanks for the reply, yes we are really close to the object.

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A quick and dirty experiment with translucency and volumetrics. The two methods will give slightly different results, react different to lights, and volumetrics will render slower.
Maybe with a better texture it would be usable?
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uh Maru. The right one looks nice.

Wouldnt it be ok to just ad some fur the the wool, just to get some hairs overlaping at the edges?

Hilmar

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there are also old techniques of doing it like ‘a-box-in-a-box’ (babushka style) or ‘crossed, multi-layered planes with alphas’ (old school clouds) giving the illusion of depth

eg @ 21:45

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Thanks for the help guys! Appreciate it!