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Wireframe texture
Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2020 12:34 pm
by Dade
I'm playing with some idea for Bevel shader (aka Rounded edge shader). As side product of the work I have added the support for a wire frame texture:
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scene.textures.wireframetex.type = wireframe
scene.textures.wireframetex.width = 0.01
scene.textures.wireframetex.border = 1.0 1.0 1.0
scene.textures.wireframetex.inside = 0.0 0.0 0.0
It looks pretty nice:
Re: Wireframe texture
Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2020 2:18 pm
by Sharlybg
This a very good addition allowing some sci fi wire effects
Re: Wireframe texture
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2020 6:15 pm
by CodeHD
That's a cool feature
I suppose that LuxCore always gets Triangles as input, so there will be no way to do this with arbitrary polygons as modelled in Blender?
Re: Wireframe texture
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2020 10:56 pm
by Dade
CodeHD wrote: ↑Sun Aug 09, 2020 6:15 pm
I suppose that LuxCore always gets Triangles as input, so there will be no way to do this with arbitrary polygons as modelled in Blender?
Yes, it uses only triangles. It could be possible to use triangle AOVs to decide the edges to show and the one to not.
Re: Wireframe texture
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 12:26 am
by JulianoLisboa
Very good, it would be very useful if it were not triangular. Quad is much more enjoyable.
Re: Wireframe texture
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 1:07 pm
by Dade
Triangle AOVs can be use to store information in order to show/hide wires. This is an example of WireFrame texture using triangle AOVs information produced by a new EdgeDetector Shape I'm working on:
Left cube with normal WireFrame texture and right cube with WireFrame texture using EdgeDetector information.
Like I said, all this stuff is a side product of the work I'm doing to have a Bevel shader.
Re: Wireframe texture
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 2:22 pm
by JulianoLisboa
Dade wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2020 1:07 pm
Triangle AOVs can be use to store information in order to show/hide wires. This is an example of WireFrame texture using triangle AOVs information produced by a new EdgeDetector Shape I'm working on:
edges.jpg
Left cube with normal WireFrame texture and right cube with WireFrame texture using EdgeDetector information.
Like I said, all this stuff is a side product of the work I'm doing to have a Bevel shader.
Great. Good Job.
Re: Wireframe texture
Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2020 10:02 am
by marcatore
it will be a great feature. Really.!
I hope you'll find room for some features like the ones Vray offers.
https://docs.chaosgroup.com/display/VMAX/VRayEdgesTex
Re: Wireframe texture
Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2020 10:43 am
by Dade
If there is some interest in the topic of wireframe shader, I can further work on it once I have finished with the bevel one: at first, I was thinking it more like a debug tool or a toy.
Re: Wireframe texture
Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2020 12:32 pm
by marcatore
well..the vrayedgetex is the like what you're doing.
if you put that on the bump channel of the material, it works like a bevel shader.
In any case...it's up to you.
I think it should be a good link as reference for further features.