(Windows 10, Blender 2.79b, LuxCoreRender 2.0)
For checking light paths in scientific experiments, I examine a polystyrene glass by directing an area light on it.
My polystyrene material is a mix of 95% glass and 5% glossy.
Many of my setups are working very fine, but I have difficults whith the final render in the following situation:
When the area light passes through the polystyrene, the entrance surface reflects the beam much weaker than the exit surface. That's physically wrong.
See example:
Correct reflections (where both surfaces reflect approximately equally strong) occur with the following setups:
- If I use the matt material instead of glossy material for the mix, the reflection is ok.
- If I put the mix to 1.0 (so it's only glass material), the reflection is ok too.
Is there a reason why the glossy material distort the reflections? Is there a remedy? Or am I doing something wrong?
Bidirectional strange with glossy material
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Re: Bidirectional strange with glossy material
IIRC, the glossy material isn't the same for the frontface and the backface, i.e. the backface is matte and the frontface is glossy. So the reflection on the left interface (air->glass) and the reflection on the right interface (glass->air) aren't the same.
Why do you use a mix material for you polystyrene glass?
Why do you use a mix material for you polystyrene glass?
Re: Bidirectional strange with glossy material
Exactly, isn't rough glass (https://wiki.luxcorerender.org/LuxCoreR ... ough_Glass) better ?
Re: Bidirectional strange with glossy material
My real polystyrene container specimen is not crystal clear like real glass but a little turbid.
For cycles (which I used in first place) there was the recommandation for plastic glass to add some glossy material.
It worked very good in cycles. The mixed material looks really like the real thing.
I reproduced that material in LuxCoreRender and it looked exactly like the the cycles renderings.
Thanks for your explanation. I've learned that I cannot use glossy for light path analysis.
But I can make a work around for my problem.
- Either I try to build a new material in LuxCoreRender without glossy
- or more simple I use a mixed material with matte material (for a little diffusion to lighten the polystyrene) that will correctly display the light paths in the bidirectional rendering.
For the light path analysis I only need schematic pictures in black and white. Therefore, the exact material is not so important
Re: Bidirectional strange with glossy material
Rough glass is not the exact material I need. My polystyrene container specimen is'nt really rough. It is only a little cloudy in the volume.Dade wrote: ↑Mon Jul 02, 2018 8:53 pm Exactly, isn't rough glass (https://wiki.luxcorerender.org/LuxCoreR ... ough_Glass) better ?
And roughness interferes with the light paths, I think. There is absorption and less reflection.
Re: Bidirectional strange with glossy material
But the "glossy" material in Cycles would be the "Mirror" or "Metal" materials in LuxCore (mirror if roughness == 0, metal otherwise).
Re: Bidirectional strange with glossy material
This is my experiments with a container (HDRI not included):
There's homogeneous volume above "table" to make beam visible.
With nothing on the its path, laser is clearly seen. Laser is seen in the "air" past container, but not before. With polystyrene sphere on laser path, beam is not visible.
There's homogeneous volume above "table" to make beam visible.
With nothing on the its path, laser is clearly seen. Laser is seen in the "air" past container, but not before. With polystyrene sphere on laser path, beam is not visible.
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Re: Bidirectional strange with glossy material
It's even funnier with mirrors: the beam is seen only after mirror 3, which is the third mirror on its path.
CPU Bidir + Metropolis | Core i5-4570
Re: Bidirectional strange with glossy material
Try setting the camera volume to the same you used as the world volume.
Re: Bidirectional strange with glossy material
Beam splitter! (with beam operator)
Mirror is half-translucent.
Camera volume set to world volume: Camera volume set to dust volume (the volume which makes beam visible):
CPU Bidir + Metropolis | Core i5-4570