Edge Shading

[rray]

A render tree compound that renders worn/chipped off/colored/funny edges.

Mental Ray only. But built from only a few factory nodes, so it should should be fairly easy to reproduce this in other renderers.

Letters above rendered by pluggin node's color output into a phong diffuse port, and into a bump map node at the same time. Let me know if you have issues/ideas about this shader.

[Bullit]

Looks great. Thanks.

[ActionArt]

Nice one!! That looks to be very useful. Thanks for posting that!

[ActionArt]

I'm really liking this, wish I had it 10 years ago! Very useful.

[rray]

Thanks for your feedback ActionArt

Btw just noticed there's a missing connection inside the compound when using ambient occlusion mode:

It should go from "Maximum1" to the max_distance port of the "ambient_occlusion" at the top

This caused inner corners not to get textured properly

(top post updated)

[ActionArt]

Thanks!

[sirdavid32]

I´m using softimage 2012. I don´t get the effect when I connect it to the difuse input of a phong shader. I would like to get the black line. I used the color black but no results.

[mixepix]

Looks like an awesome compound, thanks!