How to find bricks in Shader Mixer

GreyMan

Hi.

How the &^%$@ do you find a specific brick in Shader Mixer. I have been looking for a displacement strength map brick for the last hour. Or is there a beter way to build shaders? Or perhaps a map/list on where to find stuff. A search function would be awesome. At least tell me I am not the only one at a point where I am going to use a jackhammer to find that brick inside my pc.

Thanks.

Bejaymac

Welcome to the nightmare that is MDL in the ShaderMixer.

Basically I don't think there is a Displacement Strength brick under MDL (Iray), you will either need to combine a few bricks and "group" them together to make one, or use the Texture Instance Displacement brick and change all of the labels on it.

Richard Haseltine

Probably need to take a map, turn it into a value between limits, and adjust it by the strength - a lot of older shaders just multiplied the map by the strength, which pulled everything down to the Minimum value rather than reducing the effect. Shader Mixer isn't meant to just give you the proeprties of the default shader, it is a tool for building shaders and it is up to the creator what properties it has and how they behave.

stem_athome

GreyMan said:

 I have been looking for a displacement strength map brick for the last hour.

Hi,

Shader mixer > MDL >> Bricks > Functions > Geometric > Special > "DS Calc Displacement" (and plug in a texture source)

OR

Shader mixer > MDL >> Bricks > Functions > Geometric > Special > "Texture Instance Displacement"