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Eluxir - Hypergraph for LuxRender Beta

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  • SyndarylSyndaryl Posts: 521
    edited December 1969

    And hey, while I'm here, I'd be interested in the next version of Luxus having support for halt on Convergance without needing the GUI - I think that would solve a lot of peoples problems with "the render that never ends" :)

  • SyndarylSyndaryl Posts: 521
    edited May 2013

    I don't know if I'm doing this right. No matter what I do, the luxball is coming out as

    #Material: Luxball.Material

    Texture "diffuse_color" "color" "constant"
    "color value" [1 1 1]

    MakeNamedMaterial "material0"
    "string type" ["glossy"]
    "texture Kd" ["diffuse_color"]
    "color Ks" [0.6 0.6 0.6]
    "float uroughness" [0.8]
    "float vroughness" [0.8]

    NamedMaterial "material0"

    I go into the shader mixer, add a luxus surface brick, add a metal2 brick and connect it to LU, add a Fresnel Color brick and connect it to LU on the Metal 2 brick, and then add a color Image Map brick and connect it to LC on the Fresnel Color brick. Then I put an image in the image map, select the luxball material, and Apply the shader to it. I can see the shader change from DAZ Default (with luxus nodes) to my new shader, and all the new nodes show up and the old nodes go away...

    but when I render it's the same dang thing :(

    I've also tried Glass2 - same, Glossy. :(

    Post edited by Syndaryl on
  • SphericLabsSphericLabs Posts: 598
    edited December 1969

    It's working for me. Perhaps some a simple test case will shed some light on what is going on.

    New Scene
    Add a Sphere to the scene
    select the sphere
    select the sphere surface in surfaces pane
    shader Mixer
    File -> New Shader -> choose Luxus - LuxRender for the type
    Drop a Bricks -> Roots - > Luxus -> Luxus Surface into the work area
    Drop a Bricks -> Functions -> Luxus -> Materials -> Matte
    connect matte output to material input
    Apply
    Render

  • SyndarylSyndaryl Posts: 521
    edited December 1969

    Ah, I was missing the step where it wasn't a "Material", but a Luxus - LuxRender...

    Unfortunately, I can't Apply it to anything. I don't get any error messages it just... doesn't change the shader. If I had one of the Surfaces controls highlighted, it becomes un-highlighted, so clearly Studio has done something. Just, nothing productive. It doesn't even change any of the properties, so it's not resetting it to the default shader.

    My log file is a little angry too:

    WARNING: dzvalentinaobjectdatabase.cpp(36): DB Insert error: "FILE: ..\..\sources\VKernel\Fbl\prot\Structure\VarChar\FBL_VarCharFile.cpp FUNCTION: fbl::VarCharFile::BinarySearch LINE: 497" Varchar data "" is corrupted.
    DB Insert error: "FILE: ..\..\sources\VKernel\Fbl\prot\Structure\VarChar\FBL_VarCharFile.cpp FUNCTION: fbl::VarCharFile::BinarySearch LINE: 497" Varchar data "" is corrupted.
    WARNING: dzvalentinaobjectdatabase.cpp(36): DB Insert error: "FILE: ..\..\sources\VKernel\Fbl\prot\Structure\VarChar\FBL_VarCharFile.cpp FUNCTION: fbl::VarCharFile::BinarySearch LINE: 497" Varchar data "" is corrupted.
    DB Insert error: "FILE: ..\..\sources\VKernel\Fbl\prot\Structure\VarChar\FBL_VarCharFile.cpp FUNCTION: fbl::VarCharFile::BinarySearch LINE: 497" Varchar data "" is corrupted.
    WARNING: dzvalentinaobjectdatabase.cpp(36): DB Insert error: "FILE: ..\..\sources\VKernel\Fbl\prot\Structure\VarChar\FBL_VarCharFile.cpp FUNCTION: fbl::VarCharFile::BinarySearch LINE: 497" Varchar data "" is corrupted.
    DB Insert error: "FILE: ..\..\sources\VKernel\Fbl\prot\Structure\VarChar\FBL_VarCharFile.cpp FUNCTION: fbl::VarCharFile::BinarySearch LINE: 497" Varchar data "" is corrupted.
    WARNING: QLayout: Attempting to add QLayout "" to DzShaderMixerChooserDialog "New Shader", which already has a layout
    Loaded image glwice_clr.jpg

  • SyndarylSyndaryl Posts: 521
    edited December 1969

    A really INTERESTING thing is that if I then do the traditional Luxrender - Luxus Material option from the Surfaces tab, I have Extra Settings already populated:


    MakeNamedMaterial "Lm_material1"
    "color Kd" [$(LuxRender_Lm_001_Kd)]
    "float sigma" [$(LuxRender_Lm_002_sigma)]
    "string type" ["matte"]

    NamedMaterial "Lm_material1"

  • SphericLabsSphericLabs Posts: 598
    edited December 1969

    Syndaryl said:
    A really INTERESTING thing is that if I then do the traditional Luxrender - Luxus Material option from the Surfaces tab, I have Extra Settings already populated:


    MakeNamedMaterial "Lm_material1"
    "color Kd" [$(LuxRender_Lm_001_Kd)]
    "float sigma" [$(LuxRender_Lm_002_sigma)]
    "string type" ["matte"]

    NamedMaterial "Lm_material1"

    The above means it will work, render with luxrender and it will be the color of the property that was added to your surface. It won't be the last property, but close, right above sigma.

  • SyndarylSyndaryl Posts: 521
    edited December 1969

    SphericLabs said:
    The above means it will work, render with luxrender and it will be the color of the property that was added to your surface. It won't be the last property, but close, right above sigma.

    Aha! Yep, that's working.

    Is it supposed to update the Surfaces panel with a new shader setup, the way normal Shader Mixer things do? Or did I totally misunderstand how it works?

  • HoleHole Posts: 119
    edited December 1969

    SphericLabs said:
    New build times out end of May
    -> Win32: http://sphericlabs.com/preview/win32/Eluxir.dll
    -> Win64: http://sphericlabs.com/preview/win64/Eluxir.dll


    ...afraid to shut down DS, only started playing with this a few days ago lol.

    Looking good so far.

  • SphericLabsSphericLabs Posts: 598
    edited December 1969

    Hole said:
    SphericLabs said:
    New build times out end of May
    -> Win32: http://sphericlabs.com/preview/win32/Eluxir.dll
    -> Win64: http://sphericlabs.com/preview/win64/Eluxir.dll


    ...afraid to shut down DS, only started playing with this a few days ago lol.

    Looking good so far.

    Updated builds, they timeout end of August.

    I think I need to add the ability to have a prefix added to each property, that way the properties look like
    LuxRender - color

    instead of just:
    color

  • Eustace ScrubbEustace Scrubb Posts: 2,698
    edited December 1969

    Updated builds, they timeout end of August.

    I think I need to add the ability to have a prefix added to each property, that way the properties look like
    LuxRender - color

    instead of just:
    color

    Excellent! Maybe I'll have a bit to play with it this time.. ;)

    I think you're right about the LuxRender colors, too: which ones transfer over, which ones do not show up the way we expect them to (OpenGL and/or 3Delight effects). Why not just call 'em LuxDiffuse, LuxSpecular, LuxSubSurface, LuxAmbient and so on?

  • SphericLabsSphericLabs Posts: 598
    edited December 1969

    Let the user specify specify the prefix and default to Lux?

  • HoleHole Posts: 119
    edited December 1969

    Spheric...stop working on your website, I want to buy this. ;-)

  • HoleHole Posts: 119
    edited December 1969

    Skin shader experiment.

    Matte translucent with glossy coatings for skin sheen, oiliness and water drops. I don't find the droplets too believable without refraction, kinda looks like blisters... :(

    I found a bug with tabulated data, it gets written out as "tubulateddata".

    elxr.png
    1024 x 1024 - 2M
  • RAMWolffRAMWolff Posts: 10,212
    edited December 1969

    Very impressed with your results.

  • DrPingyDrPingy Posts: 78
    edited December 1969

    Is the project Eluxir dead or alive?

  • SphericLabsSphericLabs Posts: 598
    edited December 1969

    Hmm. If you judge by how much work I have done on it in the last month, then its pretty dead.

    BUT, I have every intention of finishing this. I am guessing that the build timed out?

  • DrPingyDrPingy Posts: 78
    edited December 1969

    Ok, on DAZ 4.6 Eluxir beta didn't work now.
    It would be good if the beta program would be continued. So we user can see that is a serious program. And it's worth to invest time.
    A node editor is excellent and is urgently needed. So see the node Editor for Luxrender in Blender.

  • SphericLabsSphericLabs Posts: 598
    edited December 1969

    New build that does not timeout till 2014

    -> Win32: http://sphericlabs.com/preview/win32/Eluxir.dll
    -> Win64: http://sphericlabs.com/preview/win64/Eluxir.dll

  • RAMWolffRAMWolff Posts: 10,212
    edited December 1969

    Is there a code I can put in for this? DAZ Studio keeps asking every time I load it up!

    Thanks!

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,961
    edited December 1969

    You do have Luxus, registered?

  • SphericLabsSphericLabs Posts: 598
    edited December 1969

    RAMWolff said:
    Is there a code I can put in for this? DAZ Studio keeps asking every time I load it up!

    Thanks!

    There is not. I click the don't show me this again, but I can understand some might not want to click that. Let me kick around a better solution, like finishing this thing :)

  • RAMWolffRAMWolff Posts: 10,212
    edited December 1969

    Thanks! :-)

    @ Richard. Still getting the system tweaked so I'll have to, at some point, check in to see what stuff I need to install and add in codes for. Just checked. Luxus is registered! YAY, one less thing to think about! lol

  • DrPingyDrPingy Posts: 78
    edited December 1969

    Hallo SphericLabs,
    my beta-version is time-out now! It has expired 2014/01/01.

    Can you provide a new version?
    Or better: Can you provide the release?

  • SphericLabsSphericLabs Posts: 598
    edited December 1969

    DrPingy said:
    Hallo SphericLabs,
    my beta-version is time-out now! It has expired 2014/01/01.

    Can you provide a new version?
    Or better: Can you provide the release?

    updated links. expires Jan 2015

  • DrPingyDrPingy Posts: 78
    edited December 1969

    Thank you. Now it works again.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    Elixur is something to buy seperate from Luxus? will there be a bundle version?

    Thanks.

    :)

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    czexana said:
    I've finally populated out most of the inputs to a Glossytranslucent and homogeneous volume shader. I've got up to 38 bricks. :ohh: :cheese:

    Here's a picture of the skin setup I've been playing with - a lot of the channels in the shader are redundant for this so I'll probably produce a specific skin shader that loses about half the bricks.

    this skin demo convinced me on the luxus :)

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    is it all good with the new 4.6.2.118 build?

    deciding on the first set to try render in Lux :lol: ummmm this :) https://www.daz3d.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=villa+venus

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    :smirk: is this a dead thread? what forum am i in? lol

  • SphericLabsSphericLabs Posts: 598
    edited December 1969

    New build that does not timeout till 2017

    -> Win32: http://sphericlabs.com/preview/win32/Eluxir.dll
    -> Win64: http://sphericlabs.com/preview/win64/Eluxir.dll

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