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[jeanphi]

Hi,

Yes moure, that's what I'm aiming for: simplification of the user interface and of the concepts you have to grasp to use the tool.
Patro: what I'm aiming for goes beyond your layered material, adding an interference pattern or using a simple pseudo coating like the one of glass doesn't require complex math, glossy is harder, ... What is needed is a framework to allow various coatings to be applied.

Jeanphi

[binarycortex]

I'm working on that. I had to create fresnelcolor because we had nothing like it. Now I just need to add another option to textures, if I can figure it out.

How so? Isn't that the same thing than the fresnel texture used by the volumes?

Jeanphi

The problem is that I have to switch to "fresnel" instead of "color" textures. The way it's done, you can't have both at the same time. What it does is it uses the type that you pass it for the naming, and fresnel textures don't work if they are called "color" and vice versa. So I am going to use a button that will let you switch between color and fresnel.

[binarycortex]

Jeanphi, I believe I have the lxm code correct, and it matches luxblend25 but it's not working properly for sopra files.

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   # Material 'luxball'
Texture "luxball::color" "fresnel" "sopra"
   "string filename" ["C:/rendering/nkdata/Cu.nk"]
MakeNamedMaterial "luxball"
   "string type" ["metal2"] "texture fresnel" ["luxball::color"]
   "float uroughness" [0.100000]
   "float vroughness" [0.100000]


Is there something I am missing?

[jeanphi]

Hi,

There was indeed a bug with sopra file handling, it is now fixed.

Jeanphi

[binarycortex]

Hi,

There was indeed a bug with sopra file handling, it is now fixed.

Jeanphi

And now that I am sure my code works, the changes to lb24 have been pushed.

[syndaryl]

This looks like an excellent replacement to ShinyMetal for texture driven metalic/pseudometalic surfaces. Especially handy for the endless parade of fantasy-armor for Poser...

The specular colour is derived from the base colour as for regular metal, yes? No separate layer?

Is there a thin-film coating for metal2? I've become quite a fan of it for various fantasy effects

[B.Y.O.B.]

Exciting progress

[jeanphi]

Is there a thin-film coating for metal2? I've become quite a fan of it for various fantasy effects

Not yet. I'm devising a more general feature for that.

Jeanphi

[syndaryl]

Is there a thin-film coating for metal2? I've become quite a fan of it for various fantasy effects

Not yet. I'm devising a more general feature for that.

Jeanphi

Oo. That's more awesome. Please do continue

[J the Ninja]

Hi,

I just found that fresnelname isn't consistent, I'll fix it before posting an example.

Jeanphi

Is this still an issue? The code I added for luxblend25 writes this, which is the same syntax as for the metal material, but it fails to load the nk file (it says "no preset named ' ' ")

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Texture "Texture" "fresnel" "fresnelname"
   "string filename" ["../Documents/Measured Data/Sopra NK/Ti.nk"]

MakeNamedMaterial "Material"
   "texture fresnel" ["Texture"]
   "float uroughness" [0.075000002980232]
   "float vroughness" [0.075000002980232]
   "string type" ["metal2"]