[REQ] Blending two specular materials.

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Woodie
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[REQ] Blending two specular materials.

Post by Woodie » Thu Feb 14, 2008 6:38 pm

Is there any plan to implement it? Water (from melting ice) in icetea can't be done properly right now. Unfortunately phong does not have transparency.

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Post by rgigante » Thu Feb 14, 2008 8:05 pm

Nop, unfortunately ... as explicitly written on Indigo Manual
"There is one restriction that applies to what materials can be blended together (in the same blend tree composed of one or more blend materials) – At most one constituent material can be a BSDF containing a delta distribution. Materials with delta distributions are the specular and null_material material types."


Hope this helps, Riccardo.

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Post by Kram1032 » Fri Feb 15, 2008 12:23 am

Not really, as NULL materials where kinda explicitly made for blending :P

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Post by rgigante » Fri Feb 15, 2008 3:02 am

Yep Kram... but imho blending Null and Specular can lead to unpredictable results. Just give it a try.

Regards, Riccardo.

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Post by Woodie » Fri Feb 15, 2008 3:21 am

Well, I know that we can't do it now. That's why this is a request to give us this option. Null is not always an option.

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Post by psor » Fri Feb 15, 2008 5:01 am

+1 8)
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Post by Kram1032 » Fri Feb 15, 2008 7:02 am

yeah... especially when you don't want transparency but translucency...

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