New Material, Bump Map? Alpha Channel?

[Chris Grantham]

I am trying to develop a new lapped large metal panel siding material, and I am wondering about getting some relief to appear when I render it. I am a bit confused about Bump Map/Alpha Channel. Is this something I need to do in photoshop before loading the image. I feel like every article I read says something different. Does anyone have any tried a true methods for this? I have attached an image of what I would like the final product to look like. Thanks!

-Chris

[Chris Grantham]

See Matthew, you answered my question! I did not even think to look at my 3D window settings. DUH. I guess I just posting how ended up answering my initial questions, thanks to the help of Dwight, both personally and his book. Long story short... forget lightworks, get artlantis. I got the desired effect in about a 10th of the time.

[Dwight]

Artlantis is a best-buy for productivity exporting from Archicad, altho there are many less expensive alternatives. Artlantis has acceptable simplicity, quality, entourage and speed.

Even though I wrote the LightWorks book five years ago when it was first introduced, Graphisoft's implementation has always been deficient compared to the way LightWorks COULD work and in the intervening years has improved little.

I encourage all Archicad users to get Abvent's free, fully-featured trial and experiment with Artlantis to see for themselves. And, of course, my book.