Material Thread - Post your materials here?

[OnoSendai]

Arne has made a nice material web page, but until that is working properly and integrated with the Indigo site, how about posting materials here?

Thoughts?

[Kram1032]

AS radiance has not too much time^^
yes, may not be a bad idea
I'll post my Amethyst-mats, mom

[Kram1032]

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<medium>
		<name>brightAmethyst</name>
		<precedence>10</precedence>
		<basic>
			<ior>1.5533</ior>
			<cauchy_b_coeff>0.013</cauchy_b_coeff>
			<absorption_coefficient_spectrum>
				<rgb>
					<rgb>16.5 33 8.25</rgb>
				</rgb>
			</absorption_coefficient_spectrum>
		</basic>
	</medium>
	<material>
		<name>brightAmethyst</name>
		<specular>
			<transparent>true</transparent>
			<internal_medium_name>brightAmethyst</internal_medium_name>
		</specular>
	</material>

and

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<medium>
		<name>darkAmethyst</name>
		<precedence>11</precedence>
		<basic>
			<ior>1.5533</ior>
			<cauchy_b_coeff>0.013</cauchy_b_coeff>
			<absorption_coefficient_spectrum>
				<rgb>
					<rgb>22.000000000000000000000000000011 33 10.999999999999999999999999999989</rgb>
				</rgb>
			</absorption_coefficient_spectrum>
		</basic>
	</medium>
	<material>
		<name>darkAmethyst</name>
		<specular>
			<transparent>true</transparent>
			<internal_medium_name>darkAmethyst</internal_medium_name>
		</specular>
	</material>

the aktual difference between these mats is nearly invisible, but the brighter one is slightly bluisher and brighter (D'oh), while the darker one is slightly more violet and darker (D'oh)


IoR and cbc settings are from Wikipedia, so, they should be physically correct

Edit:
The one, that's more in the background, is the "bright" Version, the one, that's more in the foreground, is the "dark" Version.
The Material-split is exactly in the middle.

[arneoog]

Cool

Here are some materials I've made
Enjoy!

Funky Wallpaper
funky_wallpaper.jpg
Texture File

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      <material> 
            <name>a</name> 
            <phong> 
                  <diffuse>0 0 0</diffuse> 
                  <nk_data>nkdata/au.nk</nk_data>  
                  <exponent>100000</exponent>  
                  <fresnel_scale>1</fresnel_scale>  
            </phong> 
      </material> 

      <material> 
            <name>b</name> 
            <phong> 
                  <diffuse>0.3 0.1 0.1</diffuse> 
                  <ior>1.7</ior> 
                  <exponent>700</exponent>  
                  <fresnel_scale>1</fresnel_scale> 
            </phong> 
      </material> 

      <material> 
            <name>materialShader</name> 
            <blend> 
                  <a_name>b</a_name>  
                  <b_name>a</b_name>  
                  <blend_factor>0.5</blend_factor>  
             
                  <blend_map>  
                        <uv_set>default</uv_set>  
                        <path>pattern003.jpg</path>  
                        <exponent>1.0</exponent>  
                  </blend_map>  
            </blend>  
      </material>

Scretched Rubber
scratched_rubber.jpg
Texture File

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      <medium> 
            <name>redRubber</name> 
            <precedence>10</precedence> 
            <basic> 
                  <ior>1.4</ior> 
                  <cauchy_b_coeff>0.0</cauchy_b_coeff> 
                  <absorption_coefficient_spectrum> 
                        <rgb> 
                              <rgb>10.0 60.0 60.0</rgb> 
                        </rgb> 
                  </absorption_coefficient_spectrum> 
            </basic> 
      </medium> 

      <material> 
            <name>materialShader</name> 
            <glossy_transparent>  
                  <exponent>400</exponent>  
                  <internal_medium_name>redRubber</internal_medium_name>  
                  <bump_map> 
                        <uv_set>default</uv_set> 
                        <path>scratch_bump.jpg</path> 
                        <exponent>0.0004</exponent> 
                  </bump_map> 
            </glossy_transparent> 
      </material>

Cola
Cola.jpg

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<medium>   
      <name>cocaCola</name>   
      <precedence>10</precedence>   
      <basic>   
            <ior>1.427</ior>   
            <cauchy_b_coeff>0.0</cauchy_b_coeff>   
            <absorption_coefficient_spectrum>   
                  <rgb>   
                        <rgb>70.0 125.0 250.0</rgb> 
                  </rgb>   
            </absorption_coefficient_spectrum> 
      </basic>   
</medium> 

<material> 
      <name>materialShader</name> 
      <specular> 
            <transparent>true</transparent> 
            <internal_medium_name>cocaCola</internal_medium_name> 
      </specular> 
</material>

[Slobodan]

Maybe now is good time to go back to material preview scene and decide which one do we use..

Slobodan

[StompinTom]

add a thumbnail too. makes it much easier to see exactly what your throwing onto your beautiful model.

[StompinTom]

wow. never mind. next time ill take a closer look at them links.

[Kram1032]

no problem

[filippo]

hi, I use maxigo for 3d max, I exporter the material from the material editor, but I have one file .igm.
where I found the code?
filippo

[SimonLarsen]

hi, I use maxigo for 3d max, I exporter the material from the material editor, but I have one file .igm.
where I found the code?
filippo

Just open you xml or igs file in a texteditor and look for the name of the material there.

Edit: Oh, sorry, i read it like you didn't have an igm-file.
I think you can open the igm in a texteditor too.

[filippo]

material for LCD
!-- Exported From Maxigo 0.8.3 -->

<materialdata>
<version>0.8</version>
<medium>
<name>schermo lcd spento-medium</name>
<precedence>10</precedence>

<basic>
<ior>1.5</ior>
<cauchy_b_coeff>0.0</cauchy_b_coeff>

<absorption_coefficient_spectrum>
<rgb>
<rgb>203.0 203.0 203.0</rgb>
</rgb>
</absorption_coefficient_spectrum>

</basic>
</medium>


<material>
<name>schermo lcd spento</name>
<specular>
<transparent>false</transparent>
<internal_medium_name>schermo lcd spento-medium</internal_medium_name>
</specular>
</material>

</materialdata>

[Kram1032]

nice
seems to depend on the model, but:
my LCD-TV is not that reflective... I saw such reflective ones, though...

[deltaepsylon]

We should have some kind of giant XML file that we can all add materials to... but that would be kind of complex to synchronize with everyone adding materials and such. BTW in order to include external materials, u use <include><pathname>extramaterials.xml</pathname></include>, right?
Imagine maybe even a program that would connect to some server, and download updates to the materials database!
that would be pretty kewl

Edit: Can anybody post some good glass materials? for some reason, all the ones that ive used come out really weird. Like, I tried to render a cup and there were weird black regions in places. I can post a screenshot if necessary.

[CTZn]

It's not the material, but the geometry wich has too sparse details. Subdivide the object further, these black regions are caused by Gouraud shading (I think) and objects have to be of an higher resolution to avoid this.

And... true, you can include a material database in your scenes (wer, in fact I think you can).

[deltaepsylon]

ah. Thank you, I'll go check it out now.

Edit: You can
its the exact XML that i had guessed