Custom Indigo Material

[fused]

Heres a little update:

I've been working on a few stability issues with the new material (memory leaks, bugs and such) and started working on a plugin to bake an indigo materials shaders on an object so you have the option to also use 3d space shaders (with manual baking).

it'll work a bit like the c4d bake to object function. it creates a copy of the object and material and applies the baked textures to the copied material.

im doing that threaded and found a neat way to have a dialog on top that blocks while baking is running and cant be closed during bake. c4d stays responsive, although you cannot do anything. im planning to do something similar for the export

[CTZn]

Congrats with the baking fused, and the rest too but I can only imagine what gives for the first.

I was bored to be the only guy messing with displacement on a regular basis, I hope I'll see nice materials from c4d users soon

[pixie]

Congrats with the baking fused, and the rest too but I can only imagine what gives for the first.

I was bored to be the only guy messing with displacement on a regular basis, I hope I'll see nice materials from c4d users soon

Alert! Alert!! We've got an intruder!!

Welcome aboard!

[CTZn]

Mwahaha I breached the C4Defenses, now you must use displacement extensively hahahaha !!!

[fused]

thanks a lot, CTZn! i also hope this encourages users to use displacement-, sgima- and exponent maps more often.

we'll see

[fused]

heres a test of a sphere with a baked 3d noise texture on it.

at the moment the object baking funtionality still requires a decent uv map, but i might allow the use of "optimal mapping", just like in c4d's.

[fused]

same map used for displacement

[fused]

earth shader used for albedo, displacement, bump and exponent maps. maps baked in 2048x2048.

poles are a bit messed up

3dshader_earth.jpg (596.95 KiB) Viewed 3321 times

[pixie]

I was thinking, b and c could be synonymous of white/black point, that way it could be easily shown in the viewport the correct representation of b c...

[fused]

what about just using the formula from the manual?

thats what i do

[pixie]

what about just using the formula from the manual?

thats what i do

Tell me tell me, I'm all ears!

[fused]

well, Indigo Technical Reference page 41:

The final, used value for each component is calculated like so:
f(x) = a*g(x)^2 + b*g(x) + c

and

g(x) = x^exponent

which im not doing

[Stromberg]

Here is a few baking test..

http://www.indigorenderer.com/forum/vie ... 843#p79843

[fused]

no more black borders on baked 3d shaders

[zeitmeister]

Cool, cool, cool!