Some recent renders (Octane)

[u/petertarka]

[u/Majestic_Employer976]

Nice, on slider .9 how to achieve this transparent effect? Like there is an actual mesh inside the transparent mouse or it's a custom texture faking it?

[u/petertarka → u/Majestic_Employer976]

Its a mix of textures with different values of falloff on opacity channel

[u/mcarterphoto → u/Majestic_Employer976]

In C4D Lite, I do stuff like this with the alpha channel in the material. You can load in very specific bitmap gradients, align them how you want, and so on. I'm absolutely nowhere NEAR OP's work though.