Today I have done some tests with the opacity channel.

The original character is this:


Now I save the opacity texture, save it in my graphic program as png picture and load it again in the opacity channel of CC.
Here I get now a fully white picture. 
All transparency of the top is gone.


If I change the brigthness, nothing dos happen:


Now I invert the colors of the texture in my graphic program and change the gray values to opacity values and load the png texture in CC.
The top is after this right again.


The changing of the brightness of the texture dos change nothing and I also haven't some possibility, to change the opacity with a other slider.


There are more odd effects, but they all are connected with the png textures.

Have a nice sunday
Tesira

Tesira, I'm seeing from your screen captures that your Opacity map is a linked texture. That might be the problem. Try loading as a regular texture file.

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hi animagic,
well, if you load a jpg texture in the opacity channel, so the gray values of the opacity texture control the transparency of the shirt.
If you load a png texture in the opacity channel, the alpha values of the opacity texture control the transparency of the shirt.
But you haven't a slider to change the alpha values.

Have a nice day
Tesira

But I not only have tested. I also have played with the substances. This really is great fun.

Now I have made a substance with 4 different materials and many parameters. It has worked well.









Have a nice time
Tesira

Here I have done some changes of the bump map.



And well, she has needed a partner.





All this is done now inside of CC. I only have used the Substance Designer and a graphic programm. There are so many possibilities now.

Have a nice day
Tesira

These are interesting looking characters, Tesira. You're clearly getting the hang of working with Substances.

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Thanks animagic,
yes it is so fascinating, what you can do with it. 





Have a nice day
Tesira

Hallo Tesira
ich schreibe auf deutsch, das kann ich besser
Du hast viele schöne und interessante Beispiele mit Substance Texturen gezeigt.
Hast du die Texturen im Substance Designer selber entwickelt oder dort vorhandene abgewandelt ?

Wenn du sie von Grund auf selber entwickelt hast, war das sehr zeitaufwendig und was gab es da besonderes zu beachten ?

Ich habe mich schon einmal an einer Stein-Texture nach einem Youtube Tutorial versucht.
Das war sehr auf wendig und zeitraubend und das Ergebnis fand ich nicht so toll.

Dann habe ich bisher auch keine Möglichkeit gefunden eine Icon-Vorschau in iClone oder im CC  im Bereich Material zu erzeugen.
Da erscheint immer nur das Substance-Logo mit dem Namen. Beim Substance Designer und beim Painter werden die Material-Vorschauen immer vom Programm sofort erstellt. Das fehlt mir bei iClone und beim CC bisher.

beste Grüße
hj

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Thanks hj,

well, you can see here in this thread, how long time I have learned and worked until I have gotten this substance with 4 materials and many parameters.
It is not something, what is done in 1 hour. I have learned step by step, every day a bit more. 
I have first made single substances, have saved them as sbsars and brought them finally together in one substance.
But not the creation of the substance itself was the greatest problem, but to organize this lot of parameters in a way, that all is easy to find in CC.

The Icon you can get in iClone, if you go to the substance folder of iClone. Add there your substance and a png picture with the same name as the substance.

Have a nice evening
Tesira