New beta available: PBR, microfacets, Disney, Fresnel and tutti quanti

Mistara

and the Materialize would make the extra maps it would need.

the free pbr site gave me more shaders to get started.  i d/l the blender versions.

Mistara

starting all over again.  just thinkin i shoulda test rendered without the albedo maps on.  and spin it to test for twinklies.  and need practice putting height maps in the displacement channel.

Mistara

should i be using the luxus for carrara renderer?

Dartanbeck

Mystiarra said:

should i be using the luxus for carrara renderer?

Luxus is entirely different. Different shaders, different lighting... Luxus for Carrara at Carrara Cafe

Mistara

so between pbr and phong tesselation ?

all poser and daz studio displacement maps should go into phong tesselation?

and pbr height maps go into carrara displacement channel?

what should go into the clearcoat channels?  there are 2

 

Thanks.  today is pbr power day

Mistara

stumbled on a weird one

working on the abraham hair  https://www.daz3d.com/abraham-hair-and-mustache-for-genesis-8-males

when i drop the iray shader into the pbr drop box, it looks like its not taking the maps.  the shader tiles are empty ?

could it be cause of the naming convention of the files?

 

Philemo_Carrara

Difficult to say.

Could you PM me one of those shaders? 

Mystiarra said:

stumbled on a weird one

working on the abraham hair  https://www.daz3d.com/abraham-hair-and-mustache-for-genesis-8-males

when i drop the iray shader into the pbr drop box, it looks like its not taking the maps.  the shader tiles are empty ?

could it be cause of the naming convention of the files?

 

Mistara

Thanks.  i don't see a way to attach a file in a pm.

i tried pm ing code snippet, but it sent only a blank message.  sorry.

Mistara

oh dear.  cant use either import option with this set

the albedo and the diff map look the same to me.

the AO looks like a plain white jpg to me. ?

so confuzed

Mistara

rememver the rdna node cult and bagginsbill?

he figured out how to use a poser math node, to make a color gradient color  down  a dynamic hair strand. from root to tip it changed colors with the color gradient.  was kewl.  so many mysteries in the carrara shader room.  math functions.

Mistara

i'm making guesses on the displacement  https://www.daz3d.com/medieval-brick-collection-pbr-textures

i think it looks close to the promos.

there no metallic map.

 

Dartanbeck

Mystiarra said:

stumbled on a weird one

working on the abraham hair  https://www.daz3d.com/abraham-hair-and-mustache-for-genesis-8-males

when i drop the iray shader into the pbr drop box, it looks like its not taking the maps.  the shader tiles are empty ?

could it be cause of the naming convention of the files?

One possible (manual) solution would be as follows:

 

1. Load in something that you know Does work with the PBR importer
2. Use the PBR Importer to load the Iray presets
3. Load in the Hair that Doesn't work
4. Use the PBR Importer on it again, even knowing it doesn't work

Now look at the shaders in the working object and see which maps go where, and manually load the correct maps into the correct portions of the Hair that isn't accepting the presets.

 

I do these sorts of manual load procedures whenever I really like how a preset works, but there are no presets for what I'm trying to set up.

 

An example being Iray shaders for Genesis 1. I really liked how one of the new Genesis 3 or 8 (?) characters looked out of the box, so I loaded that character in with the Genesis 1 I wanted to change. 

Then I just

1. Select the Genesis 1 figure
2. Apply the Daz Iray Uber shader to it
3. Copy a skin surfaces from the newer Iray character
4. Paste that surface material to the corresponding zones of Genesis 1
5. Change the maps to the ones I need for my Genesis 1 figure
6. Paste again to other zones that use the same material settings
7. Change those maps for the correct zone
8. Etc.,
9. Etc.,

Mistara

many of those iray presets, just change settings.  like translucency,  some change tilings.  no actual maps in the preset.

Mistara

still pbr-ing

trying my luck with pbr ground cover shader.  is just albedo, normal, and displacement.
trying it with displacement subdivision enabled.

Mistara

did you see the pbr for the dragon?  https://www.daz3d.com/pbreal-iray-black-dragon-for-daz-dragon-3

Mistara

some of the character iray presets are trying to apply to the figure and eyelashes at the same time.  hierachal mats.

Mistara

soon as i saw the roughness map, knew this was a job for pbr

the import from duf didn't work for Rosita, so i used the import from directory.

Mistara

the import from Duf isn't bringing in the maps for Leony.

i tried resaing the materials from DS.  there's so many options.  havent hit on the combination of success.
maybe i broke the plugin?  the import from directory still works.  

i don't know what to do? the import from duf was such a beautiful thing.

Mistara

does it translate iray opacity?

sotty if i'm being a pest.  i'm just really enthused for this plugin,

i been posting my pbr/hdr nudes on rossy gallery, not really exciting comments.  mebbe its the lack of eyelashes

Philemo_Carrara

It does, at least on the shaders I've tested. Difficult to say without inspecting the DUF file.

Mistara

experimenting with the clearcast slots.  tried albedo maps. ao maps.

the only tutorial i could find for moist skin was an arnold6 utube

Mistara

tried 2 shader sets with the drag and drop method

on steep sale discount   https://www.daz3d.com/elaborate-metals-iray-shaders

doesn't load in the texture maps.

 

do you think these liquid iray shaders would work?  even if to setup manually.  

https://www.daz3d.com/liquid-3-iray-shaders--mixed-cocktails

for 3 bux hurts to pass up.

 

also found the fenric tool to adjust bump amplitude doesn't work on the pbr shader.  guessing it can't find the channel.

Mistara

is there a way to make the native metal shaders, jpg-less, into pbr?

mebbe use the noise or cel patterns ?

Mistara

i'm up to somewhere round 90 shaders i haz to add the disp map to, dont know if i have the fortitude.

Mistara

i know i pushing it, ,
if there another beta planned, a slot for disp channel would be brilliant. 
and an option to set bump aplitude to like 10 % would be awesomes.
and the iray opacity map to alpha channel 

Mistara

my work on the 41food pbrs looks terrible. 

the anicient bricks looking not so bad.  

Mistara

anything new in pbrville?

i still trying tomake the ground pbrs i bought look 'not so tiled' lol