How to Render Wraithgate in 3Delight?

dawnblade

If anyone has The Wraithgate, are you able to render it in 3Delight AND get the Fire/Mana/Necro materials to appear? This is a rare product that has materials for Iray only but also states that it works with 3Delight, even though it doesn't have 3Delight materials.

The description in the product page says "Materials are designed for Iray, but work well in 3Delight as well." If you look at the product page, the various colors are shown in the image that says "4 mats."

While the prop itself does render in 3Delight, the Fire/Mana/Necro emissive materials don't show up in the 3Delight render.

I tried applying Reflective Radiance emissives to it but it changes the entire material to emissive, which is not what I want.

 

SpottedKitty

The Iray glowy bits are done with the Emissive parameter on the surfaces for the ring blocks and the ring base, masked so that the entire thing won't glow. This doesn't exist in the default 3Delight materials. The "easiest" (hint, it probably isn't) way to get it working would probably be to recreate the effect by applying an Uber Area Light to the surfaces and tweak until it looks right. This might or might not involve adding a Geoshell to the Wraithgate and applying the Area Light to the surfaces on the Geoshell.

dawnblade

Thanks @SpottedKitty. The PA is aware of the issue and is looking into it. Hopefully a fix is in the works! 

SpottedKitty

That said, I did a few test renders (in Iray) tonight and it comes out very nicely; converges quickly, and the glowy bits actually light up nearby bits of stone. Very happy with it.