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Question for DimensionTheory

david.maitrot_d926822e04david.maitrot_d926822e04 Posts: 46
edited December 1969 in The Commons

Hello, like many other DAZ users I love the shaders you made for 3Delight. Do you plan on converting them for Iray ? I, for one, would not mind paying for them again if I could combine them with the quality and special effects of Iray renders !
Thanks in advance, and congratulations for what you already did.

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,847
    edited December 1969

    Dimension Theory or Age of Armour? In any event, there are going to be limits to what can be converted - if you did mean AoA then things like the Advanced Lights won't translate as the underlying system is different; on the other hand HDR light sets and procedural textures like Shades of Life may be more hopeful.

  • david.maitrot_d926822e04david.maitrot_d926822e04 Posts: 46
    edited December 1969

    I was thinking indeed of the "Shades of Life" shaders, and also of "Strange Substances", for exemple.

  • DimensionTheoryDimensionTheory Posts: 434
    edited December 1969

    Thank you for the kind words, Dudric! Sadly like Richard said there are limitations on what can be done through the new renderer in terms of bringing the same ideas over.

    Shades of Life could probably be done without too much issue, but due to the way Iray handles displacement differently it may be much heavier on resources and will look different depending on the mesh you use it on. Iray needs to legitimately subdivide the model to actually add more polygons for displacement. Depending on how much detail you want we'd be talking about a WHOLE lot of polygons, completely possible but it would need more interaction from the end user to custom tailor their results.

    Strange Substances is based off of the Subsurface Shader that AoA did and I don't see some of the functionality translating to Iray, just because the Subsurface Scattering is handled in a much different way. My Substances used some trickery in SSS Group IDs in order to blend multiple objects together which wouldn't work in the new engine so there'd be no way to combine materials like I show in the promos.

    Either way the new engine has different shading language that will require me some time to figure out. I don't currently have any plans to move my shader products to Iray because of this but once I am comfortable with it you're likely to see something.

  • Steven-VSteven-V Posts: 727
    edited December 1969

    Good, cuz your 3delight shader stuff is awesome and we need us some Dimension Theory Iray shader love :)

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