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title: "How to Make Translucent Fabric"
canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/VMAYA/126101438/How%20to%20Make%20Translucent%20Fabric"
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<span style="color: #000000">This page provides a tutorial on how to make realistic translucent fabric with VRayMtl2Sided.</span>



## **Overview**

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<span style="color: #000000">Objects like cloth allow light to pass through them even though the actual substance they are made of is not really transparent or refractive. The light passing through the cloth is described as translucency. </span><span style="color: #172b4d">When a light is placed behind a piece of fabric then the back side characteristics of the fabric strongly affect its overall appearance.</span>

<span style="color: #000000">[VRayMtl2Sided](https://docs-chaos.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/VMAYA/pages/111742430)</span><span style="color: #000000"> is the best choice for representing cloth and other thin translucent objects like paper, leaves etc.</span>

<span style="color: #000000">In this tutorial, we examine how to use VRayMtl2Sided to create a translucent fabric material.</span>

> Macro (ui-text-box)
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> VRayMtl2Sided works best with geometry that has no thickness. In this tutorial, the geometry for the fabric is single-sided and has no thickness.

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> Macro (ui-button)





## **Step 1: Create the front material**

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## **Step 2: Create the back material **

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## **Step 3: Create a V-Ray 2-Sided material**

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## **Step 4: Adjust the translucency**

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