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Creating a translucency effect

Creating a translucency effect - SketchUp Tutorial

From the course: SketchUp: Rendering with V-Ray 3

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Creating a translucency effect

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- [Instructor] Now although both the generic and sub-surface scattering materials can be used to create thin object translucency, getting them to work and work well can, in my experience, take a quite a bit of trial and error, and so in this video, we're going to walk through creating a quick and easy fake translucency using nothing more than a couple of generic materials and a V-Ray two-sided material. We already have the two generic materials that will be applied to the front and back of our tablecloth geometry sitting inside the material list. These are using just straight diffuse colors in this instance but if you were willing to take on the challenge of UV-mapping complex shapes in SketchUp such as this tablecloth, then you could instead use bitmap files if you wanted. Now I have used the names front and back on the materials here as that essentially is how SketchUp and V-Ray will ultimately see things given that they will apply each of these materials according to what they…

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