Perforated material with slot thickness and shading

[Justin Desilva]

I'd like to create a perforated material using a bump and opacity texture. After applying both textures I'm seeing two planes with perforations but not a thick material with walls inside each of the perforations. Is this possible using textures?

[DMerz III]

I do not believe so 

This is something that would need to be modeled in. The opacity effect basically makes certain parts of a surface invisible to the camera, but it doesn't 'fill' in geometry behind that surface.

Maybe someone smarter has a better solution?
Good luck,

David Merz