Is there a way to add an opacity map to a PBR texture?

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#1

I’m trying to upload a chainlink fence texture (PBR) but the texture is formatted as a PBR, so I cant just use a texture instance, but it seems there isnt a way to use opacity with PBR textured parts and theres nowhere to upload an opacity map? Am I missing something or is transparency not an option for PBR parts?

#2

If you want to have partially transparent PBR textures, you will have to use the AlphaMode property on the SurfaceAppearance.

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#3

Does the opacity have to be baked into the color map somehow, the place where I got the texture im attempting to use have opacity as a seperate image.

#4

Yes, it does have to be in the color map. I haven’t done much with PBR textures, but I don’t think it would be too hard to edit the color map to be transparent at the places you want.

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#5

i most likely could cut it out of the texture by magic wanding the opacity layer after overlaying it over the texture

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#6

Yup, I went into paint.net & used the magic wand to select all the areas I wanted to cut out of the image then just erased over it and it only removed the parts where I had the overlay, thanks, although it’s probably a bit more complicated than that if I wanna do images with transparencies different from 0 or 255

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