Tutorial on how to make custom materials with transparencies and bumps from scratch?

Rhino Rhino for Windows
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I know I can edit exiting materials, but let’s say I want to make a floor grate with transparency from a texture photo. Or an aged wood texture with bump? What is the proper way of creating rmtl’s? Is there a standalone program to do this? Any youtube tutorials you might recommend?
Thank you.

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Hi Peter - the basic procedure is- add a new Custom material in the material panel and add the textures as needed to the Color, Bump, Transparency etc. channels.

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When done, right click on the new material in the panel and choose ‘Save to file’, if you want it on disk.

-Pascal

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Thanks Pascal. That’s how I have been going about it so far but Id love a good tutorial on making more complex seamless textures with bumps and transparencies. Any suggestions?

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Also, any suggestions for how to apply sbs materials? https://source.substance3d.com

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Ah - that is not particularly a Rhino thing then, it is a general texturing hurdle - there are tools out there for creating seamless textures as well as tips-n-tricks for Photoshop. A search on “create seamless textures” is pretty loaded up with stuff…

-Pascal