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Please put in a ticket so it can be handled properly and thank you! Hope you love it!
Am I right in looking at this and thinking this can be used to blend emissive and non-emissive materials without a whole bunch of fiddling?
Glad to know this is a merchant resource as well Will. Bougth and downloading... will play and discover when I have some time.... Thanks!
Agent unawares:
yep. One layer can glow and the other could be tapioca.
Metal and fabric. Air and toadskin.
There are a few parameters that won’t vary between layers, but a LOT can.
NICE.
Im looking forward to using it but i think either a written quick start guide or even better a vid tutorial just showing the basics of how to use these would be really welcome, and make it even more popular.
I have been experimenting with it. This is a dress where I've applied different overlays to panels of the skirt, and then pasted the base surface back over the Master Overlay preset. I have no idea if that's what I should be doing. I spent a while experimenting with the noise category but rock-crystal skirt, while useful eventually, I did not render.
The front panel is gold overlay, and I eventually applied the 'flatten displacement' pattern to it after messing with noise for a while.
The middle panel is ...red flesh as an overlay, I believe?
The back panel is blood overlay.
Martin: have you checked the documentation?
Dream: heh. That sounds workable... it may be safer to start with a ‘regular’ Iray surface, copy it, apply some OMS shader, paste, and then apply an Overlay.
Another option, if you want to get fancy, is to save a material or shader preset and only select the values you want to keep.
Grats on another awesome product Will! Bought it tonight, can't wait to start tinkering with it!
I’ll be excited what you do with it!
This should probably have a zeroed out base shader preset but I can't find one. Really don't want to clear out textures every time I use this.
The what now?
Most full presets will eliminate textures unless you right-click to keep them.
And apparently the readme didn't quite make it into the final product. So until I get that straightened out, here it is.
I'm saying I want it to load without any textures at all.
Looks amazing. I definitely will buy it
Thanks that goes some way to helping. Im one of those people who loves a tutorial as i learn quicker by watching somenoe do something than by reading about it. So if you feel inclined ( or someone else does) then that would still go down a storm with me, and i suspect, many other people too. This product looks wonderful and im going to have a play with it in a bit. But with something this complex ( remember its simple to you because you know it inside out) , to get the most out of it an idiots step by step would be really really helpful.
Don’t worry, I don’t think it’s simple. :)
In the meantime if anyone has questions about what something is or how to do something, please ask here.
(any bugs, please submit a ticket.)
Absolutely second this. I've been playing around with this today and I think it looks great, really interesting. A demo of how to put things together would really help speed up the learning process for me too :-)
I've followed your various experiments over the years and I was glad to see you made it as a PA! I couldn't resist this one for two reasons, one because I'm a shader fanatic and two the combinations just seem incredible!
Bought and bought. Thanks, sir!
Got my first chance to play with these tonight. As I expected there are so many variations begging to be experimented with! Thanks for the ReadMe too - without it I think I would be rather lost!
As it is I have only one query (so far): it says that the "mix is generated randomly" - does this mean
(a) different effect on different objects in the same scene
and/or
(b) if you save a scene it may reload with a different random generation?
or
(c) will the same randomising parameters will be used each time the scene is reloaded?
Of course I can keep trying things to work this out for myself, but it's New Year here (UK) in 30 mins so I have to pack up for the night or hubby will be a little annoyed
I THINK the same pattern will appear on every object in the same scene; one benefit to the Overlay Rotation and Tiling is so you can vary two objects with otherwise similar patterns -- if you want.
The same 'random' pattern will appear between saves.
So, properly speaking, it's 'pseudorandom noise' -- the same figure with the same parameters will have the same 'random' pattern.
Sorry I went AWOL for most of the day - thanks for replying. That fits with what I saw so far (still waiting for the chance to play more, maybe tomorrow).
Happy New Year!
Was playing around with cloud settings. This is Rising Smoke with SSS color dropped a bunch (making it more opaque)
That's very cool:)
Anyone have any cool renders?
One powerful tool is the Magnitude map. Here I baked an AO map (using Substance Painter) of the recent Orc, then inverted it and plugged it into the Magnitude map with the Standing Lava preset and Orc green skin (I copied the skin, applyed Standing Lava, then pasted the skin back on).
So the lava glow/effect only appears in the crevices of the orc. Fun effect, I think!
If you can bake AO maps, you can easily set up various kinds of corroded edges, rust, and glowing over or under surfaces.
Really cool effect! That's one of the things I wanted to do with these shaders when I bought them, but I still need to get down to experiment with them (and so many other things). Thanks for putting your creativity at our disposal, Will, it really is a boon to the weirdly oriented among us.
LOVE this!
I haven't spent as much time experimenting with this as I would like, but I have been playing with the smoke presets. Used the wolf and a geometry shell here, one with the rising smoke and one with the drifting smoke presets and some tweaking. The render is still a bit noisy, I should have picked a brighter location to test this out, but overall liking the effect. Still needs tweaking, but a ton of potential here.
The Orc sample you showed is really cool too, I'm going to have to try something like that.
I’ve been debating a follow up product, maybe with some masks for g8 figures to make stuff like that easier.
The easiest way to make smoke more dense, fyi, is to decrease Transmitted distance.
Made some tweaks and stuck it in a brighter scene. I was trying out the lava preset on the eyes to see if they would glow, the end result ended up looking a bit cartoonish compared to what I was picturing, but I liked the results
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