(3DS MAX) Material Help - Opacity Map Confusion

Cdawilliams

I'm trying to achieve this look: (Just taken to serve as an example from google)



Layering Text/Logo over a Vans paint job. So far I've attempted UVW Unwrapping the Van, loading MR 'Car Paint' into the Diffuse Channel, then loading my logo into the Opacity Channel (Saved as both png/gif).

Cheers

SpeCter

I think you got something wrong there, the Opacity channel makes things transparent(or not depending on the opacity value)

Cdawilliams

SpeCter wrote: »

I think you got something wrong there, the Opacity channel makes things transparent(or not depending on the opacity value)

I was experimenting having read something in a tutorial - I managed to get the logo to appear along with the Paint but it was grey and lost all its original colour.

With my unwrap, I made every transparent then saved it was a gif in hope that would only show the logo and ignore the rest of the unwrap texture.

Is there a method of achieving what I'm after? Spent 4 hours yesterday racking my brains as to how to do it.

SpeCter

I i understood you right you could do this for example:

- Add a mix map to your Diffuse Slot
- Add your carpaint material in one slot
- Add your overlay(the text) to the other slot
- Add your overlay to the mix amount slot and Under Bitmap Parameters change Mono channel output too Alpha
- Done

Edit: For more complex things you should consider looking at the composite map and play around with that it´s really easy



I used the Carpaint Material as base, added the paw(png image with alpha) and another image with text(png with alpha too)

Cdawilliams

Cdawilliams wrote: »

I was experimenting having read something in a tutorial - I managed to get the logo to appear along with the Paint but it was grey and lost all its original colour.

With my unwrap, I made every transparent then saved it was a gif in hope that would only show the logo and ignore the rest of the unwrap texture.

Is there a method of achieving what I'm after? Spent 4 hours yesterday racking my brains as to how to do it.

You, Sir, are my hero. Thank you!

I was just about ready to twin Falcon Punch both monitors.

SpeCter

No problem just make sure to take a look at the Composite Map too

Edit: Another pair of monitors rescued!:poly142:

Cdawilliams

I'll experiment with that now - This was exactly the look I was going for.

Before your response I had settled with adding black to the background of the logo, loading it into the diffuse channel and adding Reflect/Refract to the Reflect Channel. It worked but doesn't yield as good a result as the method you just showed me

[EDIT] My Composite looks different to the one in your screenshot - Not sure if its because I'm using 2012

Eric Chadwick

Cdawilliams wrote: »

My Composite looks different to the one in your screenshot - Not sure if its because I'm using 2012

Make sure you're using Composite Map, not Composite Material. Very different controls and results.

SpeCter

Eric is right i used the Composite Map in the Diffuse Channel not the Composite Material.
Just pick a standard material and add a Composite Map in the Diffuse and you get what you see in my Screenshot.