Height based Texture Blending in 3dsmax?
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Hi,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dghCetkArJI
Is this possible using 3dsmax material nodes?
Sometimes, I wonder why things are so backward in these 3d applications these days compared to ue4.
I was able to find this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFZo-q2-EZo
But this is for Maya. How would this work for 3dsmax?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dghCetkArJIIs this possible using 3dsmax material nodes?
Sometimes, I wonder why things are so backward in these 3d applications these days compared to ue4.
I was able to find this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFZo-q2-EZoBut this is for Maya. How would this work for 3dsmax?
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For viewport, yes. Use Shader FX, works basically the same as Unreal.
You'd also probably want to wire up controller nodes to change both settings at the same time, like height cutoff level and blend sharpness.
Then you could use vertex color to paint the masks live in the viewport.
The good Vojtech pointed me to this thread.
It is indeed possible to fabricate this workflow in max, and be very efficient and fast.
I am currently setting up a 2020 project file for you guys I will be making over the next couple of hours:
Painting returns over 100 fps in my viewport, so texture artist wont experience any lag painting the initial mask.
We only need to use 1 physical material for everything abd we dont need to set up a bunch of things before it works, Ill see if I have time to write a special custom shader, else you can start with getting a shading network we can later collapse and customize, no problem.
In OSL we can do everything you want, once the initial mask is painted realtime, so I dont think you can come up with a wish we cant solve.
Ill grind out a template as mentioned and return with some material later.
Here it is.
https://youtu.be/QPQFBK4d0as
Small walkthrough on how to setup the basic, communication between painter and shader is a simple construct to manage.
Link to max scene:
https://github.com/gkmotu/ArnoldSceneConverterScripts3DSMAX/tree/master/Scenes
And you should see something like this, there is a custom displamcent slot on the bitmap which does not figure on the original bitmap shader, so maybe save this one out for later as its updated to send out blured images for rounding displacement errors off.
Just pick the vertex paint tool and use either whiteish or darkish, does not need to be exact tone, the more the more contrast and so on.
You can use this to control all aspects, using the displacement as a guide for various elements, pipe the displacement or the raw color out to an interpolate node as guide and mix in 2 shader types, you can stack these things.
Load a new HDRI to the Environment
And load a new Brick displacement texture inside the Bitmap Lookup node.
So what you want to do is to probe this and find some "looks" for input in interpolation maps where you mix things in, grade them so the right place and amount of the displacement is sourced, for example you can filter out so we just paint in the cracks very easily, or just the tops, based on a custom mask, we put into looks and momentarily just look at for debugging the particular mask, then switch back to final and implement debugged mask.
We can do this manually, or we can set up a single shader taking care of it all, giving us a UI we pritty much want within the frames of OSL UI'ing.
Here is another method as well with Corona renderer:
A variant, FBM smoke mixed into the emission equation.
@MadsD Pls, is there a way decals can be projected on surfaces like ue4 with osl shaders? Also parrallax mapping?
https://dropmefiles.com/WYpYg