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nested dielectric 3.2.1.5 not working ?
Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2016 1:14 pm
by photomg1
just want to check if this is user error on my part or not , but I cant get this to work on this build.
Re: nested dielectric 3.2.1.5 not working ?
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2016 3:02 pm
by tom
Could you show and example or share a scene which fails?
Re: nested dielectric 3.2.1.5 not working ?
Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2016 11:55 am
by photomg1
Sorry for the very late reply Tom .... busy elsewhere... I did solve my issue at the time . It was due to using full trans 255 white trying to do a boolean lowering the colour value solved it and got it working.
Why is that ?
i see this has been discussed here as well
http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... it=boolean
Re: nested dielectric 3.2.1.5 not working ?
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 5:57 pm
by tom
Oh, OK! Because "ghost" (nd=1 & trans=255) is a special case for the engine. It's perfect vacuum which is excluded from computations like refraction etc. Therefore, you can set it 254 and then expect it behave like a dielectric again

Re: nested dielectric 3.2.1.5 not working ?
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2016 9:52 pm
by seghier
I used
nd = 1.00001 or 1.001
transmittance rgb 255
attenuation 999m
Roughness 0
and it work fine

Re: nested dielectric 3.2.1.5 not working ?
Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2016 1:24 pm
by tom
How did you do that hatching?

Re: nested dielectric 3.2.1.5 not working ?
Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2016 1:33 pm
by seghier
i added new layer with procedural checker (hatch ) and masked it with checker ( half black/half white ) with plane mapping
than i scaled the mapping and moved it a little bit to got this result
in this case i added two layers for hatch ; i don't know why hatching appeared only in half of the model
Re: nested dielectric 3.2.1.5 not working ?
Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2016 2:00 pm
by tom
seghier wrote: i don't know why hatching appeared only in half of the model
Sounds like magic.

Re: nested dielectric 3.2.1.5 not working ?
Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2016 2:07 pm
by seghier
tom wrote:seghier wrote: i don't know why hatching appeared only in half of the model
Sounds like magic.

there is alot of magic in studio
