I want to create a fabric texture that will give the effect of thin
cotton or even silk. The key points are:
- a cream or off white colour
- Slight transparency/translucence so that a little light comes through
and a hint of the body limbs underneath are given
- a slight roughness to suggest the warp of the cloth - very subtle or
fine texture.

Any suggestions for the parameters? I considered using a texture map
from a photo, but I can't seem to get the translucence effect as well if
I use an image map.

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In article <397DFF69.A1C554B0@yahoo.com>, Simon Lacey 
<sfl### [at] yahoocom> wrote:

> I want to create a fabric texture that will give the effect of thin
> cotton or even silk. The key points are:
> - a cream or off white colour
> - Slight transparency/translucence so that a little light comes through
> and a hint of the body limbs underneath are given
> - a slight roughness to suggest the warp of the cloth - very subtle or
> fine texture.

Hmm...try giving it a fairly large scale bozo normal and use a high 
brilliance value in the finish. Some very small scale normal coupled 
with low-brightness specular highlights might help, maybe also a small 
amount of reflection, not enough to really be visible, but just to add a 
small effect. You might also want to try some iridescence.
Add some filtering transparency, and if you are using MegaPOV, use 
double_illuminate. And finally, use radiosity.

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