Forum: Carrara

Subject: Ice Shader For Carrara 5?

Jonj1611 opened this issue on Dec 16, 2007 · 29 posts

Jonj1611 posted Sun, 16 December 2007 at 7:00 AM

Hi,

Does anyone know where I might find a good ice shader for Carrara 5 Standard? I have tried the glacier and snow shaders that come with Vue, but really I am looking for an ice shader, something that is good close up.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks
Jon

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bwtr posted Sun, 16 December 2007 at 4:16 PM

PM me with your e-mail address and I will send you some to experiment with.

bwtr

Jonj1611 posted Sun, 16 December 2007 at 4:18 PM

Excellent, many thanks, PM'ing you now :)

Jon

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Miss Nancy posted Sun, 16 December 2007 at 5:20 PM

unless there's some reason to keep this topic private, carrara has also got glacier and frozen water shaders in the browser.

Jonj1611 posted Sun, 16 December 2007 at 5:36 PM

Hi,

Thanks, I had mixed results with the built in shaders, I found the glacier to be very blue and not quite what I was looking for, and for some reason the snow shaders when rendered had lines going across them, not sure if that was the shader of the the actual terrain(2048x2048)

Thanks
Jon

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bwtr posted Sun, 16 December 2007 at 6:07 PM

If Jonji finds some of mine (which included the browser ones) to be of some value I would be happy to supply to others.

Lets wait to see if they are ok first.

bwtr

Jonj1611 posted Sun, 16 December 2007 at 6:39 PM

Thanks bwtr, shaders received and I will be using them tomorrow, will let you know how it goes :)

Jon

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ShawnDriscoll posted Sun, 16 December 2007 at 11:17 PM

Does Carrara Standard 5 do translucency at least? It is a big help when making ice.

www.youtube.com/user/ShawnDriscollCG

ShawnDriscoll posted Sun, 16 December 2007 at 11:35 PM

Carrara 6 does In-Scattering. But this is as close as I can get to tricking Carrara Pro 5.1 into doing something similar.

www.youtube.com/user/ShawnDriscollCG

bwtr posted Sun, 16 December 2007 at 11:41 PM

And!---would love to have that C6 .cbr.

Please! fingers crossed!

bwtr

ShawnDriscoll posted Sun, 16 December 2007 at 11:45 PM

I don't have C6. I'm waiting for version 7. So it will be awhile before I can play with In-Scattering, myself.

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bwtr posted Mon, 17 December 2007 at 12:37 AM

No C6?---wow, I am surprised. Of all people!

C6 really is a good update. At least as good as the C4 to C5 one was.

bwtr

ShawnDriscoll posted Mon, 17 December 2007 at 12:00 PM

I'll upgrade Carrara when it can do SSS at least as well as Vue 6.

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Miss Nancy posted Mon, 17 December 2007 at 12:07 PM

yes, c6pro has sss. I dunno how it compares to vue.

ShawnDriscoll posted Mon, 17 December 2007 at 1:10 PM

Its SSS doesn't do skin very well. It's the same as C5's SSS. It can do a candle or a bar of soap somewhat. But not marble statues or icebergs.

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bwtr posted Mon, 17 December 2007 at 9:06 PM

Shonner. In C6 we now have added to Transperency,---- Intensity, Absorption and In-scattering, would these not be what you are looking for?

bwtr

ShawnDriscoll posted Mon, 17 December 2007 at 10:44 PM

Those are perfect for liquid, such as lake depth, vats of boiled lard, sewage muck. But not for skin bags containing water (aka humans) or other solids. If SSS (which is for solids) were improved in C6 by now, we'd be seeing some better Poser renders of SSS skin here. Maybe Carrara 6.1 will have this new SSS feature? Earlobes are in dire need for some real SSS rendering.

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