Glossy Reflection and Refraction Shaders for 3Delight

[ShaderOp]

Hi everyone.

I was playing around with 3Delight, and I managed to make a few shaders that I thought might prove useful. One is glossy reflection and the other is glossy refraction. Here's an example scene showing the results:


You can download them and watch the how-to video from this page:

http://shaderop.com/2011/03/glossy-refl ... softimage/

I've also included a utility node called "Bake_Pass_Switch," which allows an object to use one material for the baking pass and another for the normal rendering pass.

I hope someone will find a use for these

[Zafar Iqbal]

That's awesome. Thank you very much for sharing.

[Mathaeus]

Thanks for sharing this !

Btw, I assume it's still not that 'special command' that will be revealed in 3.04 ? Or you found it somehow...

Anyway, thanks again !

[ShaderOp]

Thanks for sharing this !

You are most welcome

Btw, I assume it's still not that 'special command' that will be revealed in 3.04 ? Or you found it somehow...

No, I'm not using any special command, or at least I'm not using anything that can't be easily figured out by looking at the RSL files that 3Delight generates during rendering. In fact, I'll list the magic ingredients that I used right here:

• option( "user:xsi_ao_maxsolidangle", maxsolidangle ) to get the Max Solid Angle setting.
• option( "user:bake_file", bake_file ) to get the full path to the point cloud file, if any.
• extern uniform float __is_bakepass to detect if this is a baking pass or a normal pass.

And that's it really. The rest was just plain vanilla RSL. And even that I copied almost verbatim from here.

[ShaderOp]

I should mention that this plug-in needed an update to work with 3Delight 3.0.9. Grab it from here:

http://shaderop.com/2011/07/glossy-refl ... age-3-0-9/