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Hey everyone.

I've finally gotten around to porting the TGA PBL CGFX shader for Maya to the new ShaderFX format for Maya(Works in 3DSMAX as well?). In essence this shader is very similar to the old one, but there are a few improvements.

Highlight features of this shader:
  • A real life material based fresnel term that alters specularity and reflections.
  • A substance texture to mimic how materials reflect and refract light in real life.
  • A roughness texture to define a materials surface structure(smooth/rough).
  • Image based lighting via a cube map for reflections and ambient lighting.
  • Roughness controlled sharpness of reflections using pre-blurred mip levels of the cube map.
  • Linear shading pipeline. Albedo, roughness, substance, ambient occlusion and the cube map are converted to linear.
  • Transparency support through the Albedo texture alpha channel.
  • Energy conservation for light amount for both direct and ambient light.
  • A bundled cheat sheet image with color swatches for several substance values as well as a bundled cube map to get started.
  • SSAO and MSAA through the VP2.0 in Maya(not a feature of the shader itself).
  • Optional Blended Normals diffuse lighting method for skin level SSS-effect along with option mask texture. New!
  • Shadows with directional and spot lights. New!
  • User defined amount of Maya native lights in viewport. New!
  • Exposure and Gamma are tweakable in the viewport in Maya 2015 extensions1 for better overall contrast(not a feature of the shader itself). New!

Ideas for future improvements:
  • Tutorial video for getting started and using the shader.
  • Alternative anisotropic specularity model
  • Emissive Texture to simulate emissive surfaces.
  • Multi-pass mode to get reflections on transparent surfaces to mimic glass like materials.
  • DX11 Tesselation and displacement.
  • Vertex color tinting.
  • Some kind of SSS approximation other than blended normals(?). Maybe something like this?

Known issues:
  • Haven't found a way to get cube map image size or number of mip-map levels to automatically handle this. User has to manually set cube map resolution/side. Default at 512px/side.

Technical Requirements:
  • Maya 2015 Service Pack 3(?) or newer. Run with DirectX as render engine.
  • Maya 2015 LT(no info on this but has ShaderFX support)? Run with DirectX as render engine.
  • Maya 2014 LT(no info on this but has ShaderFX support)? Run with DirectX as render engine.
  • 3D Studio Max 2015(no info on this but has ShaderFX support)?

Changelog:

From 1.0 RC2 -> 1.0 RC3:
  • Added option to use Blended Normals for the diffuse ligthing. Comes with optional mask texture, weight slider and cyan suppress slider.
  • The shader now handles not having textures loaded better. You now get meaningful results from whatever combination of textures you decide to load. As meaningful as it gets anyway.
  • The "Use_Abledo_Alpha_as_Transparency" gave strange results when unchecked, not acts as intended and gets completely opaque when not checked.
  • The Rotate Cube map slider is now at default value of 360 to force the slider to go from 0-360 range instead of 0-1 as before.

Download:
Using the shader in Maya:
  1. Apply a ShaderFX material to your object.
  2. Open the ShaderFX editor through the material in the attribute editor
  3. File > Import Graph > point to the SFX file.
  4. Close the ShaderFX editor to show the shader attributes in the Attribute editor.
  5. Tip: Use MEL command "shaderfx -update" to easily refresh all the textures in the shader.
  6. Tip: Rename the .sfx file to "startup.sfx" and place it into "Documents\maya\ShaderFX\ Scenes". This will set the shader as the default shader graph to use for new ShaderFX materials.

This is the first public version of this shader. I will keep updating the shader continously with improvments, fixes and maybe a new feature or two. Please give any feedback you have in this thread. Thanks.

The code for light contribution(color & intensity) and shadows are blatantly copy pasted from the TraditionalGameSurfaceShader supplied with ShaderFX in Maya. Did not feel inclined to re-invent the wheel. Author of these snippets? Kees Rijnen?

The model and textures in the image above created by Ronja Melin, ronjamelin.com.

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  • haiddasalami
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    haiddasalami polycounter lvl 14
    Max 2015 has ShaderFx support. Havent played around with it as much. Looks awesome Kodde. Will download it and test on 2015
  • kodde
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    kodde polycounter lvl 18
    Woot! Thanks. Please let me know how it goes. Interested to know if it works in Max as well. Would be awesome!
  • haiddasalami
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    It loaded up fine. Couple of things I noticed is the model may go blank but you just got to import textures. What format are the cubemaps in? Cross or panoramic. Wasnt sure so waiting for the cubemap pack download. Also need to be in DX11 Nitrous. ShaderFx editor wont open up otherwise.
  • kodde
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    Aha. Yeah I think you need to load most textures for the shading to make any sense.

    The Horizontal Strip, Nvidia style. Needs pre blurred mig levels to fake reflection sharpness.
  • throttlekitty
    You're my favorite kodde, thanks!
  • Ace-Angel
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    3DS Max's ShaderFX is kinda broken (clamped textures will sometimes go outside the 0-1 range, and shadows don't work for example), don't even think about DX11 on Max, since it can more times then not freeze up your workspace, so you might want to stick with Maya centric values for the future updates.

    I'm curious as to what you mean my Multi-Pass mode?
  • shaderfx
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    Sweet baby jezus...awesome!

    You can save the .sfx file as "Startup.sfx" into "MyDocuments \ maya \ ShaderFX \ Scenes" and then ShaderFX will use this graph every time you apply a new shader. That way you do not constantly have to do the "apply shader, open graph, load .sfx ...etc steps"
  • shaderfx
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    Hi Ace,

    Clamped textures go outside range 0-1?
    How are you clamping the textures? 3dsMax's bitmap load dialog or in the shader itself?
    In the shader itself it should never go outside that range and I dare you to give me steps to repro :)

    Shadows do not work with DX materials in Max and I hate this limitation.
    One day I hope to convince internal people to fix this :(

    I'm surprised you have problems with DX11 running in Max. I know tessellation doesn't work but I have not encountered any lock-ups (But then I am probably not pushing max as hard like you do in production)
  • shaderfx
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    "Rotate Cube Map" slider defaults to 0-1"

    In your graph, change the default value for "Rotate Cubemap" node to be 360.
    That will start the maya spinner with a range from 0-360
  • shaderfx
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    "reload textures in the shader similar to how Maya's regular File nodes work"

    Could perhaps do something via MEL?

    There is a "shaderfx" command available (but not documented in MEL help docs)
    shaderfx -help;

    shaderfx -update might work. Not sure. I guess it depends if other shaders in the viewport use the same texture maybe...
  • kodde
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    Ace-Angel> Right now I'm only doing one single color pass and applying transparency on that, then feeding to the technique-node. By multi-pass I ment have several passes and applying them together in a way that allows reflections to be added after opacity has been applied, to get a more glass like material. Might be other ways? But I figured this is the way to go about it.

    ShaderFX> Wow thanks. That startup especially is a nice tip!
    While you're handing out nice tips, Any good way to reload textures? :)
  • kodde
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    kodde polycounter lvl 18
    Ah... hehe. You beat me to it. I'll have a look at the shaderfx -help then.
  • Ace-Angel
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    Hey Kees,

    For some reason, I have to clamp the textures in the 0.1-0.99 range manually, this is most prevalent on 1D textures that might have been saved in a somewhat lossy format or compressed format (such as TGA or BMP as example).

    I don't have the access extension update, so I can't say if that fixed the clamp issue, but I know for example when I was using the 1D Fresnel like maps (ei: the ones found in the DOTA), the extreme ends of the texture would still show up (a black blob or such).

    Just to make it clear, I don't have access to the extension update, which I heard brought some updates to FX, so I cannot say if that fixed it on my end.

    Sorry, I should have been more specific, when I said DX11, I meant to say the Tesselation setup (bad habit), every-time I tried to use it, it would lock up Max for me (at least on the default material node, I didn't try creating a naked version and testing that since I figured it's another Max related issue).

    Cheers for the input!

    @Kodde,

    I see, that could work actually well enough.
  • kodde
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    Ace-Angel> you example with the 1D ramp. Could be an issue with texture filtering and the texture sampler being set to Wrap rather than Clamp?
  • Shrike
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    Moar example renders ?
  • kodde
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    Shrike> Afraid not. Not yet anyway. Need more talented artists to use this shader so that I can ask them nicely to use their art ;)

    I intend to get some more examples next week if I can find some time for it. There's a lot of talented students at the school where I work and I'm certain that they've got some nice PBL-based projects. So hopefully I will be able to work something out.
  • throttlekitty
    I use this script, I forgot to test it with ShaderFX last night. I dunno how different those file refs are from the regular texture nodes.

    http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/script/filereload
  • kodde
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    throttlekitty> Thanks for the kind words :)
    Regarding that texture reloading script I don't think that will work with ShaderFX. That script is most likely based on finding the texture File nodes associated with your selected objects. ShaderFX does not use the same type of File nodes in the same manner.

    However as shaderfx(the user) suggested a bit up in this thread the MEL command "shaderfx update" seems to work fine to reload the texture, regardless if the object is selected or not. Maybe just append that command to the MEL-script?
  • kodde
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    Alright guys, new version.

    From 1.0 RC2 -> 1.0 RC3:
    • Added option to use Blended Normals for the diffuse lighting for that skin level SSS effect. Comes with optional mask texture, weight slider and cyan suppress slider.
    • The shader now handles not having textures loaded better. You now get meaningful results from whatever combination of textures you decide to load. As meaningful as it gets anyway.
    • The "Use_Abledo_Alpha_as_Transparency" gave strange results when unchecked, now acts as intended and gets completely opaque when not checked.
    • The Rotate Cube map slider is now at default value of 360 to force the slider to go from 0-360 range instead of 0-1 as before.

    Download the shader here: kostas.se/shaderfx-tga-pbl-shader

    AP4MRg.jpg
  • kodde
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    Working on GGX specularity and getting the roughness-to-mip-level right to get it synced properly. Using Lys generated cube map. Should be in for next release.

    Anyone tried the shader? Any feedback? :)

    AieB4D.jpg
  • Braddish
    Hey Kodde, Im super happy to see you porting your shader to the shader fx!

    I've given it a try and am getting nothing but a solid unshaded red material in my VP2. I've tried a few different textures, some png and some tga, same results...
    I'm using the cube that was supplied with the shader (un_Ditch_River.dds)

    Im using maya 2015 SP2
    Also tried it on SP5, Extention 1

    edit:
    I just noticed that when I open the shader graph it has these errors in the bottom right:
    shaderFXpbrError.jpg

    Am I missing someting?

    Thanks
  • shaderfx
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    FWIW,

    A red/orange shader means the shader code generated is invalid.
    So it is not related to the textures you input.

    What viewport mode are you in (dx11 or ogl)?

    The shader error would usually be printed in the Maya output window I believe.
  • kodde
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    Hey Braddish,

    I'm also curious what Render Engine(OpenGL/DirectX11) you are running?
  • Braddish
    Switching to DX11 does work! Open GL is a no go. Thank you!

    Now that I have it working, I have some feedback :):

    I initailly assumed your shader was using the Disney BRDF (Unreal4 style) PBR.
    It took me a bit to realize it, but yours is using the Specular/Glossiness model correct? I believe this is the one that marmoset uses.
    So with your shader the maps are named a bit differently (Kobbe in green):

    Glossiness = Roughness
    Specular = Substance

    I initially tried plugging in a metallic mask (black for dielectric areas and white for metallic areas) into the "Substance" slot and a Roughness map into the "Roughness" slot. I ended up getting almost no specular response on my asset. After plugging in a specular texture and a glossiness (inverted roughness) texture I got more desirable results.
    Note: My textures are all exported out of Substance Painter


    My Feedback:

    1) Mention up front which shading model you are using, since some people might assume it is the BRDF technique at first.

    2) Rename your "Roughness" channel to "Glossiness" to be more consistent with other software using this technique.

    3) Rename your "Substance" to "Specular" to be more consistent with other software using this technique as well.

    4) More of a wishlist thing, but make a version that supports the BRDF model as well. :)
  • haiddasalami
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    haiddasalami polycounter lvl 14
    Kodde's shader takes a spec map (called substance) instead of metallic. Just tick spec map for your exports from Painter.
  • kodde
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    That's not a bad idea of a future improvement perhaps. To support both the metallic style and my current substance(ior values) style. Thanks for the feedback.

    Need to wrap up this new version with GGX spec and better synced reflection/spec blurriness.
  • kodde
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    Braddish> I am using BRDF approach for specular. It uses a full texture called substance to define the Index Of Refraction values.

    But I do see the use of being able to work with the UE4 and many others do it with optimizing away a full RGB texture and going for the 1-channel metallic style approach as well. Also I'll be switching around the roughness soon enough to match everyone else's approach to this. Just gets confusing.
  • Braddish
    Yea, sorry, what I meant by "Support BRDF model as well" is the Disney style BRDF which just means the metallic workflow. I suppose all pbr models are technically BRDF

    Now that I have the proper textures plugged into your shader, it is looking really good! My asset actually looks quite similar between Substance Painter and Maya now. I think the only thing I need to do is use the same IBL in both and it will match up really well.


    One other request. I don't know how possible this would be, but its worth a try!

    Instead of having a shader where you just plug in textures, I would love to have a root node in shader fx that allows me to make my own shader while using your pbr light model.

    Something like this:

    ShaderFX_pbr1.jpg Or for Metallic: ShaderFXpbr_2.jpg






    ShaderFXpbr_2.jpg?dl=0ShaderFXpbr_2.jpg?dl=0
  • kodde
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    Cool! I bet it will look even better with the next iteration that I mentioned.

    Can I ask why you want this interface instead where you have to create your own texture nodes? It's totally possible, I just thought it would be more convenient for the users to not have to create these nodes. I think it might be hard for me to support both approaches. Maybe just reorganize all my input textures in the structure I have now so their all located in the same ground/area in the editor. Making it easier for users like you who want to feed your own solutions?
  • Braddish
    Ideally I would like to have a setup that allows me to do whatever I would do in a game engine.

    Some examples:

    -Diffuse overlay texture (multiplied usually)
    -Tinting based on alpha channel
    -Specular overlay to break up tiling on specular of large shiny surfaces.
    -Puddles controlled by a puddle mask
    -Detail normal map
    -Layered shader
    -Macro normal map with tiling albedo/spec/normal under it
    -animating emissive

    etc. etc.

    When working on any game asset I quite quite often finding myself in need of some of these "compositing" techniques. Having a basic shader that allows you to plug in your textures is great for really simple assets, but in my opinion, the whole point of having a shader graph system like ShaderFX is to allow artists to do whatever they need to get the end result. Your setup could allow artists to use ShaderFX the way that its built to be used, but with PBL which would be incredibly powerful because we can see pretty much what the in game asset will look like in the maya viewport (assuming you create shaders in ShaderFX that have the same funcionality as your game engine).
    If an artist wants to plug textures in manually to the base node in order to use it as a basic shader, they can still do that, or they can expose those texture inputs if they want (just as you have). Leaving it up to the artist is going to allow them to do whatever they need.
  • calen
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    calen polycounter lvl 7
    Hi Kodde, i cant seem to figure out why im getting a darker result in the viewport. I'm getting this error through shaderfx. Is this the cause?
    "Error compiling shader swatch (shader may still work in viewport).
    C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2015\bin\Shader@0x000000000E7EF110(61,21-27): error X3004: undeclared identifier 'node705'"
    
  • kodde
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    calen>
    Hey,
    Shouldn't be an issue i think. Swatches as far as I know is the small shader node preview image inside the ShaderFX editor.

    Darker than what? Your expectations or any other system you are used to?
    Did you load all textures? Fiddle with any of the multiplier values? Using a cube map? Got "Use all lights" active in the viewport?

    Let me know how it goes.
  • radiancef0rge
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    radiancef0rge ngon master
    If you turn on the node iDs in the settings drop down you can debug which node "705" is causing a problem for you.
  • EarthQuake
    Braddish wrote: »
    Yea, sorry, what I meant by "Support BRDF model as well" is the Disney style BRDF which just means the metallic workflow. I suppose all pbr models are technically BRDF

    Just want to chime in here because there seems to be some general confusion.

    A BRDF is a mathematical approximation of a lighting model, examples being GGX, Blinn-Phong, Phong, Lambert, etc. The Disney reflectivity BRDF is GGX.

    BRDF has nothing to do with the specular or metalness workflow. These are two different methods for storing reflectivity content in texture maps, and are not mutually inclusive or exclusive to a specific BRDF. I wrote a bit on this subject here, maybe it will help to clear it up a bit: http://www.marmoset.co/toolbag/learn/pbr-conversion

    Kodde, sorry for the rant in your thread dude. The shader is looking nice, its great to see you continuing to work on it.
  • JedTheKrampus
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    Kodde, if you're in Maya 2015 you can set it to automatically reload textures as they're modified. It's in Window->Settings/Preferences->Preferences->Settings->Files/Projects->Image Files (at the very bottom of the section.)
  • kodde
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    radiancef0rge> Thanks for the tip. Didn't know about this. Seems to be where I load the cube map being the node that calen got an error about. Hmm... Might rework this way of handling the cube map if it causes more issues.

    EQ> Thanks. No problem. I always just assumed that the term BRDF was any way of approximating reflectance where you used two input directions such as incoming light light angle and surface normal. The term pretty much says it all right? :)

    JedTheKrampus> Does this work for ShaderFX texture nodes as well? Think I'll try this out, would be nice if it did but I'm skeptical. :P
  • kodde
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    JedTheKrampus> Yeah it didn't work with ShaderFX :O
    Nice setting though. Had no idea about it.
  • kodde
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    I'm about to implement support for Metalness approach to define non-metal/metal surfaces. What is the preferred way to store this data? Any suggestions on how I should expose this? A certain channel in another texture? Pack together metalness+roughness+ao? A full texture on it's own?

    I'm thinking I want a default setup, and also expose inputs more easily for those who want to deviate and modify the shader network on their own to fit their needs.
  • radiancef0rge
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    At autodesk the preference has always been to NOT pack textures as it tends to be slightly more graspable then a multimap.

    What file format are you using for a cube map? Ive found the input to be sometimes buggy. Also depending on what version you are using there was a bug in the first shaderfx and cubes came in upside down
  • kodde
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    radiancef0rge> Nvidia's horizontal strip layout DDS. I've had no issues with it yet. This PBL shader uses pre-blurred mip-levels to gain the possibility to have blurred reflections. Next version will be synced quite well with hos Lys generates it's blurred cube maps.

    I'm going to keep the legacy way of exposing all data as separate channels and also adding a layout where you use packed data as well as metalness instead of a substance texture. Also exposing all inputs in a more easy fashion in the shader network to more easily allow users to tweak to their own liking.

    Working on finishing the next version as we speak. Should hopefully be done later today or tomorrow.
  • JedTheKrampus
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    That's odd, I could've sworn it worked the other day. AD pls fix
  • JedTheKrampus
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    You have to tweak any of the sliders a little and then it updates. It's still a lot faster than opening the image up again.
  • kodde
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    Oh yeah! Didn't occur to me to force an update on the texture by fiddling with the multiply sliders. Good call. Thanks.

    Otherwise the MEL command "shaderfx -update" works quite well also if you just make a shelf button or hotkey.
  • kodde
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    New version! RC4.

    You can get it here: http://www.kostas.se/shaderfx-tga-pbl-shader/

    From 1.0 RC3 -> 1.0 RC4:

    -"Texture Setup" setting which now also enables "metalness approach" where you use a metalness texture instead of a substance texture.

    -Re-organized the shader network which now has an easily accessible "Inputs" group where you can plug in your own texture setup in whatever manner you like. Cube Map is not exposed in the "Inputs" group as it is more intricate to how it works in the shader.

    -Added a "Invert Roughness" checkbox under Tweaks.

    -GGX specularity

    -Specular/Reflection sharpness/blurriness better matched when using Lys(knaldtech.com) generated specular(ggx)cube maps.

    -Roughness no longer gamma corrected to better match UE4's results.



    New AE layout highlighting Texture Setup, Metalness texture and Invert Roughness:

    M8fVHR.jpg

    New shader network layout to more easily allow users to customize their input data:

    3QDaCy.jpg
  • Maryam H.
    Hello
    This is my first post here and I really appreciate any feed back.

    I have the latest version of Maya and I get this error:

    assignCreatedShader "ShaderfxShader" "" ShaderfxShader1 "pCube1";
    sets -e -forceElement ShaderfxShader1SG;
    // ShaderfxShader1SG //
    // Created shader ShaderfxShader and assigned to the selected objects. //
    select -r ShaderfxShader1 ;
    // Error: The compile returned an error. //
    // Error: //
    // cgfxShaderNode::cgErrorCallBack
    // Error: The compile returned an error. //
    // Error: //
    select -cl ;



    Any ideas?
    Thanks for you time.
  • calen
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    Hey Kodde, Sorry for the lack of a reply. I had a hiatus on 3D work, but i decided to get back in to it and decided to try and get the shader working so i went back in to try and recreate the error i was getting. Unfortunately I'm having a new error, not sure what has changed to completely screw it up but i have installed windows again recently. I am using Maya 2015 btw. I also tried using all versions of your shader to no avail.

    As you can see when i import the shader graph i dont get the correct menu within the attributes panel.


    Now when i add the shaderfx shader and import the graph i get this result.

    DNsCS2n.jpg


    Heres what the shader graph looks like when i import it in

    vrbdiVO.jpg

    Bit hard to see the actual nodes, so i moved them and zoomed in so you can actually see whats going on

    XErnhgl.jpg




    Had it somewhat working before when i posted my last question, all the pbr texture inputs were in the attributes. Not sure why this is happening.

    ( also as a side note, why the hell does maya & max not have a native pbr shader yet?)
  • kodde
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    Maryam H & calen>
    Are you guys using Service Pack 5?
    Did you change viewport ViewPort 2.0 to use DirectX instead of OpenGL? You change this in the settings/preferences under Display.
  • calen
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    No I didn't have service pack 5 installed and i also had OpenGL set as the renderer.
    So now it's working again! yay :)

    In my previous question i posted last year regarding a dark result i didn't have any lights enabled. I was kinda assuming i'd be able to light my object using just the cubemap, is that not possible? I get a darker result that what i think the cubemap should give. For instance, shouldn't a sunny cubemap light an object sufficiently? Perhaps i have some sort of misconception as to how the cubemap works? I have a feeling like this how it's suppose to work and i just dont understand it properly.

    Here's an example (albedo is pure white, one side of the sphere is 100% roughness and the other is 0%):
    It's pretty flatly lit by the cubemap

    26ABYz7.jpg


    rather than something like in substance designer:

    ZCZsxJa.jpg
  • kodde
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    Hello calen,

    Glad it works :)

    Yes you should be able to light it just with the cube map if you like. You'd miss out on getting shadows though. The cube maps I've tried so far are LDR 8-bit ones, but there's a "Cube Map Multiplier" you can play around with. Remember you can always go higher than 1.0 which the slider probably defaults to as max value, just type in something higher.

    Also note that the shader relies on using pre-blurred cube maps from Lys with the GGX setting for best result where the size of specular/specular reflection highlights will match in size. I've provided one cube map in the rar for testing purposes. I'm afraid that one is actually not processed properly with Lys *ashamed*. Although it does have pre-blurred mip levels and should work fine for just testing out the functionality.
  • kodde
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    For reference here's what it looks like in my end with the roughness texture seen on the right head. Using the supplied "un_Ditch_River.dds" cube map. White albedo, white substance and all multipliers at 1.0.

    I've also set the "Cube_map_size" setting under "Settings" to "512px/side" to match the mip lvl 0 resolution of " "un_Ditch_River.dds". This is an important setting to get right. Wish I could get this info automatically so the user didn't have to. I should change it to "512px/side" as default for next version since I'm also supplying a 512px reference cube map.

    I'd probably advise you to use some directional/spot/point lights to light with as well, not primarily just a cube map. The directional light and spot light can use depth map shadows in the viewport with the shader.

    uRY2Hn.jpg
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