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by Racleborg
Thu Apr 19, 2018 6:41 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Shader ball
Replies: 9
Views: 8508

Re: Shader ball

Hi

When using B.Y.O.B's Shader Ball and I turn the Tonemapper/Autobrightness OFF in the camera settings, then I have to turn the Default Light Group gain down to .001 to get the what appears to me to be the same result as if the Tonemapper/Autobrightness was ON. Is that correct.

Thanks
by Racleborg
Mon Apr 16, 2018 8:51 pm
Forum: User Support
Topic: Pointiness/Band
Replies: 3
Views: 3393

Re: Pointiness/Band

BYOB

I'm not sure either. I think it was a case of diving in enthusiastically after a long day at work and then getting in a ravel!

Thank you for your help
by Racleborg
Mon Apr 16, 2018 6:10 pm
Forum: User Support
Topic: Pointiness/Band
Replies: 3
Views: 3393

Re: Pointiness/Band

I think I just got lucky as this appears to work. Is it ok to do it like this? (attached)
by Racleborg
Mon Apr 16, 2018 5:46 pm
Forum: User Support
Topic: Pointiness/Band
Replies: 3
Views: 3393

Pointiness/Band

Hi Am I connecting these up correctly (attached) in order to use the Pointiness to mix colours or materials. It works fine in A but not in B. I understand that I'm connecting a colour output to a value input, and that this can be done in Cycles but not in Lux. But I can't work out another way to ach...
by Racleborg
Sun Apr 15, 2018 3:14 pm
Forum: User Support
Topic: Ramp Pointiness
Replies: 2
Views: 2868

Re: Ramp Pointiness

Yep, that works for me.

Many thanks, again.
by Racleborg
Sun Apr 15, 2018 2:57 pm
Forum: User Support
Topic: Ramp Pointiness
Replies: 2
Views: 2868

Ramp Pointiness

Hi

Is it still possible to Colour Ramp the Pointiness (attached).I would like to use this with the Velvet material, but I can't find the settings.

Thank you
by Racleborg
Sun Apr 15, 2018 1:56 pm
Forum: User Support
Topic: Negative values in velvet shader
Replies: 4
Views: 3404

Re: Negative values in velvet shader

A nice fix.
Thank you.
by Racleborg
Sun Apr 15, 2018 1:08 pm
Forum: User Support
Topic: Negative values in velvet shader
Replies: 4
Views: 3404

Re: Negative values in velvet shader

Great. Thank you.

Even without the negative values it's an awesome capability. I've been playing around with it for much of this morning! later on I'll try attaching textures to the inputs. :)
by Racleborg
Sun Apr 15, 2018 11:56 am
Forum: User Support
Topic: Negative values in velvet shader
Replies: 4
Views: 3404

Negative values in velvet shader

Hi

I have just posted about the Velvet shader in Discussions but have noticed that I don't appear to be able to enter negative values into the node, even though negative values are showing in the Material Help for this.

Thanks
by Racleborg
Sun Apr 15, 2018 11:38 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Velvet shader
Replies: 0
Views: 5720

Velvet shader

Does anyone use the velvet shader much? I'm looking to do upholstered furniture in nice environments. There is some great examples given here of the shader: http://www.luxrender.net/wiki/LuxRender ... als_Velvet