Hi all,
I am working on a cutaway of an octopus and I have some difficulties with transparency and refraction. I would love to be able to completely render it in ZBrush, so I wonder: how can I make the material I have now a bit transparent? I am pleased with the texture so far, but The octopus itself needs to be see trough. Not only on the thin parts, but I want to body itself be transparent, since I am also working on it intestines and such.
Doesn’t the texture get in the way?
You need to fiddle with the middle row of sliders. Push by color way up and nudge the cFactor in tiny increments. Also, subtly nudge the NFactor.
Nice sculpt by the way. Love them cephalopods!
Carver
Thanks, just fiddlin’ around it is :).
And thanks, I’ll show the end result when finished.
Hi all,
here the result. I didn´t use transparent material but rather worked on it in Photoshop. The idea is that you see a complete spread where the arms of the octopus go beyond the page as if it where a glass plate. The arms come back up on this side of the glass, out of the water (hence the water droplets). Further more you can see the intestines of the octopus. I opened up a whole octopus myself to know for sure this is how the organs look. There are still some little details that aren´t right, but they didn´t pay enough to make it perfect 
