fading transparency on reflective floor

[mitchino]

Can anyone help me with a small problem I'm struggling with?

I created a reflective floor and have an object standing on it. I want to use a circular black to white gradient in the opacity channel to fade the floor and reflection away at the edges.

Can't seem to get it working. Any help gratefully received!

[niestudio]

Hi Mitchino,
Not sure what all you've tried, but you should be able to accomplish this with an image texture or a c4d gradient texture.

[bepeg4d]

Hi mitchino,
probably an issue with projection, firstly plug the texture in diffuse before using it in opacity, it should be more easy to visualize.
As niestudio pointed out, you can use a texture or a gradient shader, but please, avoid to use the c4d Gradient shader, and prefer the Octane Gradient shader instead. It does not need to be baked, and there is a Radial shortcut that creates all the necessary nodes, just correct the projection:

ciao beppe

[coilbook]

Hi mitchino,
probably an issue with projection, firstly plug the texture in diffuse before using it in opacity, it should be more easy to visualize.
As niestudio pointed out, you can use a texture or a gradient shader, but please, avoid to use the c4d Gradient shader, and prefer the Octane Gradient shader instead. It does not need to be baked, and there is a Radial shortcut that creates all the necessary nodes, just correct the projection:

IMG_0432.jpeg

ciao beppe

hi how can you do this in 3ds max