Doing a project for my architecture studio in steel construction this semester. I need a metal grate that kind of clangs when you walk on it like in a catwalk. Haven’t been able to find transparent enscape materials, as well as no luck with hatches. I have done it by hand thus far and the final look…

Name: Rhino 7 - Perforated Metal Material Creation - PBR
Uploaded: 2024-11-14T01:13:15Z
Description: Texture with alpha channel will work. This might work: [Rhino 7 - Perforated Metal Material Creation - PBR]

If your aim to just create a visual feel of something like this, I’d suggest to use a texture with holes than trying to model this. Just using a texture would be much lighter and more helpful. You would have to do some photoshop for this. I don’t think it’s easy to get téxtures like this. Or you …

Texture with alpha channel will work. This might work: [Rhino 7 - Perforated Metal Material Creation - PBR]

Thank you that helped a lot. I just can’t get it to show up perforated in enscape.

Correct, jpgs do not have alpha. Use PNG.

is that why it’s not working in enscape?

Very possible. Although I do not know the exact kind and outs of Escape. PNGs are a better format in that they are more modern, contain RGBA, and are compressed.

Hi @Jake_Pulciani , you may need to go to the Enscape Material Editor, find that material and navigate down to the Transparency drop down button and choose Cut-Out and then choose your black and white image to act as a clipping mask. White pixels will be 100% opaque and black pixels will be complete…

I made the texture a PNG and just applied it as custom material and it worked fine. Thanks everyone for the help

Creating a see through grate/mesh

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scottd (Scott Davidson) November 14, 2024, 1:13am 3

Texture with alpha channel will work.

This might work:

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Creating a see through grate/mesh

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