Decorated pig
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if only i could play the piano, i definitively would start a band called The Stoned Cheetah Pigs ...
I'll play the spoons. :smile:
Woodblock
Inspired by the "Advanced RenderMan" book, I present: ink and woodblock pig.
It's interesting to contrast the material system with full-blown RenderMan shaders. A lot is possible, but the fact that you can only have one Shader node is a pretty big limitation. In this case, the line width was supposed to be modulated by a normal diffuse shader. Using I•N means it looks like just a camera light with no shadows.
Oh and Hi, I'm a new user here, mostly a programmer but we'll see whether I can also produce something besides code.
Bart.
Inspired by the "Advanced RenderMan" book, I present: ink and woodblock pig.
It's interesting to contrast the material system with full-blown RenderMan shaders. A lot is possible, but the fact that you can only have one Shader node is a pretty big limitation. In this case, the line width was supposed to be modulated by a normal diffuse shader. Using I•N means it looks like just a camera light with no shadows.
Oh and Hi, I'm a new user here, mostly a programmer but we'll see whether I can also produce something besides code.
Bart.
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Hi Bart.
Great texture. :icon_thumbup:
If one like to have constant lines change the value of b: 2.5 eg.
Cheers
Frank
Great texture. :icon_thumbup:
If one like to have constant lines change the value of b: 2.5 eg.
Cheers
Frank
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Hi Bart and welcome!
thanks for this great material
thanks for this great material
More woodblock
I assume the b Frank meant was in the first multiply node, which is the line frequency. With 2.5, you get a new kind of toon shader.
If the roundness of the lines bothers you, then you can change the field of view of the camera to a smaller value, and then change the frequency multiplier.
Is it just me, or should "constant" nodes ideally appear on the properties screen, so you can expose just the interesting parameters of your materials?
Lastly, I started out not in screen space (what the State node calls "eye") but in parameter space. That doesn't work so well with the pig, but with simpler models (or ones where much more love has gone into UV mapping) it gives a great effect. Here's uv1 instead of eye:
I assume the b Frank meant was in the first multiply node, which is the line frequency. With 2.5, you get a new kind of toon shader.
If the roundness of the lines bothers you, then you can change the field of view of the camera to a smaller value, and then change the frequency multiplier.
Is it just me, or should "constant" nodes ideally appear on the properties screen, so you can expose just the interesting parameters of your materials?
Lastly, I started out not in screen space (what the State node calls "eye") but in parameter space. That doesn't work so well with the pig, but with simpler models (or ones where much more love has gone into UV mapping) it gives a great effect. Here's uv1 instead of eye:
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awesome stuff, bart !
when you click on the small checkerboard symbols in the mat properties, the corresponding node's properties are shown, so you can click your way through the whole sequence and access all properties without having the node editor displayed.
for constant nodes i have found yet two kinds of uses:
- when one parameter (like a certain color) should drive various nodes,
- when you need an intensity <0 or >1 for a color
update:
i tried the normal instead of the i-n as edge input and found out that you can do different light angles this way (x,y or z direction, mixing possible) but without shadows.
could not get rid of the no-lines-in-shadow effect though...
View attachment Woodblock-.c3dmat.zip
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temhawk
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Hi Tom, welcome to the forum!!This was fun
That is a VERY NICE material, can you share it with us, please?
Btw, I'm finding it hard to believe that you guys are using the same program as I am… I couldn't get anywhere near those effects…:icon_thumbup::icon_thumbup:
Oh, and I just used archie's "planethaze" material on the pig and got something funny-ish (see below)
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temhawk
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Hi, your rust mosaic material doesn't work. It's just a reflective dark color.
temhawk
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I tried it with an HDRI. I don't think that's the problem.
