Shader Mixer Tutorial

margrave

In the recent "What Do You Want to Learn?" thread, there were quite a few requests for Iray Shader Mixer tutorials. Including one from me, wherein I remarked I'd have better luck trying to transfer my knowledge of Blender's Shader Editor over to Daz Studio and figure it out on my own.

Well, I've now done that.

And let me tell you, the Shader Mixer may sound confusing, and look confusing, but don't let that fool you.

It really is confusing.

Nonetheless, I soldiered on and figured out (roughly) how it works. My findings are documented in a thread in the Blender subforum, since it's mainly about how to recreate Blender shaders in Daz, but there's some simple illustrations and I just did a deep dive on how the Uber Shader works, so even if you're not a Blender user you can probably get something out of it.

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/505581/the-shader-mixer-deciphered-blender-to-daz-conversion

Torquinox

Cool! Good work.

benniewoodell

I never knew Daz had a node system like this. It's far too early in the morning for me to wrap my head around anything like this, but I am going to be taking a look at this later on in depth to see what's going on once I can comprehend what's happening around me. Thanks for doing this!