Glossy coating panel

[Lord Crc]

Hi,

I just pushed a change which introduced a "Glossy coating" panel similar to the "Alpha transparency" panel. It adds a "glossycoating" layer using the material as a base layer. This saves one from having to create a mix manually.

It works with with alpha transparency as well, see attachment.

The change was somewhat intrusive due to the IOR preset menu being a bit hardcoded. So I had to duplicate some bits of it. It wasn't pretty, and should probably be refactored a bit by someone who's not a complete python nub, like me Hope I didn't break too much.

Also note that the reason I pass the partial name and full operator name is that draw_generator didn't work when the operator name wasn't a string literal. Bug in EF or Blender?

[J the Ninja]

Oh good, somebody did this. Thanks LordCrc. Everything seems to work well.

Should we leave glossy coating in the normal mat list as well, in case users want to stack coatings, or just get rid of it?

[SATtva]

That's cooool!

Should we leave glossy coating in the normal mat list as well, in case users want to stack coatings, or just get rid of it?

We should definitely leave it for the reason you mentioned. Stacked coatings is one of the most awesome features of this new mat, otherwise we could just stay at the standard glossy.

[olivii0]

nice man stack coatings rock! Love it

[Meelis]

AWESOME material

I have converted my multylayer marble material using glossy coating.
Before i had it made of 4-5 glossy or glossytranslucent materials. Each of them with bump and exponent maps and tons of parameters.

Now i have layered the color components with simple matte or mattetranslucent materials.
And in the end i just add the coating.

I got more than decent speedup from it.
Before i had porblem with reflection not showing up on surface even with exponent 300k, but now my material look beautiful.