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Mia Material Advanced phenomena

Posted: 04 Nov 2011, 00:42
by Mossman
Hey everybody!

I wanted to share with you my modified version of the Mia Material. Since I had lots of problems with the standard implementation of the architectural material I decided to make my own version some time ago. I changed some interface flaws, included some utilities like the excellent RRaytype shader by Reinhard Claus directly into the interface, and optimized working with channels.

A much more detailed description on why and what I did with the shader, as well as a short video can be found on my blog.

This shader has really become my standard solution for all materials for quite some time now, and solved a lot of the common problems with the Mia Material I often hear from other people on the various forums. So I hope it will become as useful to some of you as it is to me, enjoy!

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Re: Mia Material Advanced phenomena

Posted: 04 Nov 2011, 16:09
by ActionArt
Wow, thanks! This is great. I use it a lot and this looks like a great improvement. Thanks for sharing!

Re: Mia Material Advanced phenomena

Posted: 07 Nov 2011, 17:49
by elhemp
Thanks alot. This solves some major headaches I had with mia in the past. Especially the highlight problem.

Re: Mia Material Advanced phenomena

Posted: 08 Nov 2011, 15:13
by owei
Thanks for sharing! Great work!!

best,
oliver

Re: Mia Material Advanced phenomena

Posted: 19 Jan 2012, 13:34
by Kzin
thx for the shader!

Re: Mia Material Advanced phenomena

Posted: 19 Jan 2012, 17:47
by Daniel Brassard
Thanks for the shader Mossman.

Too bad I can't use it at this time as it is only x64 and I'm still on 32 bit system, but this will proove useful when I finally jump ship.

Keep up the good work!

Re: Mia Material Advanced phenomena

Posted: 30 Jan 2012, 01:01
by Mossman
I've uploaded a new Version which fixes a small bug where shadows lost their transparency and color when using the rayswitch.

@Daniel: in theory the only thing you need are the 32bit dll's for the mia material wrapper and the rraytype shader. You can download the rraytype shader over at rray.de, the wrapper is unfortunately not so easy. All the download links on xsibase are offline and I don't have a local backup anymore. Maybe somebody else has got a backup?

Re: Mia Material Advanced phenomena

Posted: 03 Mar 2012, 23:01
by Maximus
Hello, first of all thanks a lot for this shader, its really usefull.
I've found a little bug, it doesnt take into account photons, so you cant use GI. IF you connect the wrapper to the photon port and use a spotlight activating Global Illumination shooting photons you get the error no photon stored after emission. If you swap to normal architectural it works.
I think something is missing regarding photons when you compiled the shader. Can always use a normal architectural in conjunction with the advanced and use it only on photon channel if you have to use GI. still it would be nice to have it fixed :)

Thanks again, Max

Re: Mia Material Advanced phenomena

Posted: 12 Mar 2012, 14:31
by Mossman
Your're right, it doesn't work. To be honest, I haven't used photons in ages, so i didn't notice. I will try to fix it as soon as possible..

Re: Mia Material Advanced phenomena

Posted: 12 Mar 2012, 16:51
by Mossman
I've uploaded a new version, it should work now.

Re: Mia Material Advanced phenomena

Posted: 12 Mar 2012, 17:13
by JPWestmas
Whoah, cool! Thanks Laughing Man ;)

Re: Mia Material Advanced phenomena

Posted: 27 Mar 2012, 13:11
by Maximus
many thanks, its workin now!