Filter Color Map

Command entry:

Material Editor

Standard material

Maps rollout

Filter Color button

Command entry:

Material Editor

Raytrace material

Maps rollout

Translucency button

Command entry:

Material Editor

Arch & Design material

General Maps rollout

Main Maps group

Translucency Color button

Command entry:

Material Editor

Other materials that have a Filter Color component

The filter color, also known as the translucency color, is the color transmitted through transparent or semi-transparent materials such as glass.

Using a Filter Color map

You can use a bitmap file or procedural map to control the filter color component. This map applies a transparent-color effect based on the intensity of the map's pixels.

TipYou can combine a mapped filter color with volumetric lighting to create effects such as colored light through a stained-glass window. Ray-traced shadows cast by transparent objects are tinted by the filter color.

Procedures

To use a Filter Color map:

Click the map button for Filter Color.
3ds Max opens the Material/Map Browser.
Choose from the list of map types, and then click OK.
(If you choose Bitmap as the map type, 3ds Max opens a file dialog that lets you choose the image file.)
Use the map controls to set up the map.

Alternatively, you can use the Slate Material Editor to wire a map node to the Filter Color (or Translucency) component.