Now invert your bump map and hook that to your transparency node

Not really. Chain mail is made of rings, while this weave is a continuous line.

I posted a chain mail freebie in this thread.

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2846423

ThetaGraphics made this image with the shader in that thread.

Yep, that looks about right.

     I think your idea is nonetheless worth pursuing, Winterclaw.  While not historically/technically "correct" for chain mail, it would still make an interesting and useful "flexible" armor, perhaps an elvish work (wrought in BB's mithril), or a sci-fi underlayment made of composite/carbon fiber.

     If applied to a garment, I'd make the interstitial spaces transparent;  if applied as a second skin, use the alpha as a discriminator and make the interstitial spaces look like underlying cloth.

Wow, that's a nice looking suit, ThetaGraphics!

wint, if ya don't like bill's shader, yours might work better with tile node (circles).  weave node produces moire fx in poser render.

Great shader, Bill, really nice; my mind is proper-blown at how good that shader looks!

Nancy, I discovered this by accident, but I'll give tiles a try.

Now the point of my post. Why is it that when people make chain mail textures they ALWAYS hang the links the wrong way?

These are just quick and dirty shots of my own mail shirt to show what I am talking about. No one would wear mail the other way because all the links would just fall open and allow  enemy weapons to catch and even pierce the armor, while hanging the proper way weapons are less likely to find an opening to exploit. Hung the proper way gravity will hold the links closed, but if worn as in that render that armor would not be so form fitting on her because of gravity pulling the mail open  exposing whatever she wore under it, (likely nothing in that instance) I know this is poser and fantasy we are talking about, but arent we all trying to make our figures look as realistic as possible? I know I am, and I know that I cannot be the only one whos OCD screams out NO! when they see mail hung that way.

BB Love your shaders and when I work with poser I try to use yours when I can. this is in no way directed at just you. I see this in textures for chain mail in every product I have ever seen that uses it. I cannot think of a single one that has done it properly and I do look.

Now please excuse me while I wash the iron foundry smell from my hands.

EDIT: Had to make the image smaller.

I am away for the weekend and don't have poser with me, but when I return, I will add a rotation parameter to the shader and default it to 90 degrees. Thus in future the blame for such mistakes will fall on the user and not the shader author. ..grin..

p.s. The arms came out right by accident. T pose is going to affect things. Uv maps are never what I want them to be.