After waiting several thousand years with great patience and anticipation, Ted gave me the Stripe Shader for my Mustang!

Ted you are the man!

Here is a look at it in action.

Yes it is a procedural.

I am going out of town for the weekend but hope to have the Mustang in my store about mid week, next week.

Hope you like it.

Tom

P.S. There are a bunch of cars in the lot, waiting to go online. :-)

Yum. That looks good enough to eat ;-)

Have a good weekend Tom. I'll look forward to that appearing next week... and the rest.

Tom, it's a beauty! Well done!!!!! (Wish I could do cars like that......)

Love banging my head against the wall. :-)

Will have a few color presets but you can change the two colors with two color selections right up front in the shader, as always Ted put the controls you can fool with on the left side.

Also has controls for the width of the stripes. Not a simple thing, so I will  most likely do a small tutorial for the shader. Took Ted a while to explain it to me.

Not because he is dumb. :-)

Bunch of controls for this car as well. Even figured out how if once the car is turned you can drive it straight in that direction.

Scoop is morph-able as well as the spoiler.

Wipers work as well.

All options can be hidden as always. Hide Show poses for all of them.

Steer right or left  and the steering wheel turns as you would expect.

Lights on or off material presets.

Bunch of wheel options for the colors.

Dark or light windows.

12 neon colors

45 Car Color Presets made from Teds BB2 Shaders pack a merchant resource product coming soon. .mc6 files

Here is another look at the rear end of the car. The spoiler has two morphs. One for the height and one for the amount of down force on the back of the car, when the cops are chasing you. :-)

Tom

This looks good, what is the poly count of the Mustang?

Thanks

36,597 polygons

I like to model with quads

Really beautiful work.

Does it come with the engine sound? LOL

Good work ;)

Laurie

That is very cool

Looks awesome on the Mustang.

Is the Mustang UV Mapped / Poser mat grouped in a special way for this to work?

Not special - it's just a longitudinal mapping, planar projection, from above.

The stripe does simple arithmetic on the U coordinate. (0=left, 1=right)

x = Abs(2 * U - 1)

This creates an 'x' value that is 0 at the center of the car (midline) and 1 at the edges - it creates mirror symmetry on either side of the midline. Any function of x will be mirrored and look the same on both sides.

To create a transition for the edge of a stripe, I want a fast ramp from 0 to 1 at key places. A simple way to do that is:

Clamp(200 * (x - p))

where p is some arbitrary x value.

For example, if I want a rapid transition from 0 to 1 starting at .25, I use

Clamp(200 * (x - .25))

When x <= .25, this is 0.

When x >= .255, this is 1.

Between those two I get a smooth gradient. This will make the appearance of an anti-aliased edge.

To do the opposite transtion from 1 to 0, ending at some coordinate, q, I reverse the subtraction:

Clamp(200 * (q - x))

Now to make a stripe from p to q, I can just multiply these two.

Clamp(200 * (x - p)) * Clamp(200 * (q - x))

To make two stripes, one between p:q and the other between r:s I use

Clamp(200 * (x - p)) * Clamp(200 * (q - x)) + Clamp(200 * (x - r)) * Clamp(200 * (s - x))

and so on. I can make any number of stripes this way, but i decided to do three.

The above is a royal pain in the ass to do by hand assembly of nodes, but with matmatic I literally typed the above into the script and it made the correct nodes for me.

In this way, I can just type three numbers - inner, middle, and outer stripe.

Example: 2.26, 10.01, 20.01

Produces what you see in the attached image.

That says:

I want the inner stripe (the one closest to midline) with 2% width that is 26% away from the midline.

I want the next stripe to be 10% width, and spaced out 1% from the previous stripe.

Finally, the outer stripe is 20% width, also spaced out 1% from the previous stripe.

This is 18, 1.01, 1.01.

Love the Mustang, looks great, always has been one of my favourite cars.

I gather we are allowed to make commercial announcement again, since you guys create quite some threads that are purely commercial...... I thought that was against the rules, but it seems these rules have been lifted now.

It's not a commercial thread, although I notice you want to complain about anytime we talk and there happens to be something we're working on.

Tom was happy because I finally gave him the shader he asked for. I'm not selling this shader.

Then I gave the math formulas, making it a tutorial.

Course, you're free to teach us what YOU know if you like.

I'm thinking I'm kind of sick of Rendo forums and maybe I'll just go make my own somewhere.

I rarely read something worth reading anymore. Much of what I read makes me experience negative emotions toward the poster.

I try to post informative and interesting stuff, because there seems to be precious little of it.

But do go on and make me bitter. I will find more time to do paid work.

... Please don't abandon the forum outright, BB. Even when you seem to be irritated you still post invaluable tips and suggestions.

As an aside, I have noticed that your tone has changed from what it once was in various forums... I also read a comment from SnowSultan on her site that she no longer attends the renderosity forum because of the "New Crowd".

In any case, here's hoping that you just let the nonsense slide and continue to be the Material Master @ the Rendo Poser Forum.

Don't think you complained when Blackhearted has threads about his products or several other threads here. Even one at the top that is sticky, about a tutorial, posted by a staff member.

Seems like you just plain do not like Ted.

Why don't you go somewhere else.

Ted is doing a ton of good for Poser world!

What are you doing?

Beside trying to stir things up.

Please be kind in your comments or don't comment at all.

As Ted said above, I am just happy to have the shader that he spent hours and hours createing.

Tom

P.S. Ted had an older version of the Mustang so if you see a strange mismatch in the mapping it has already been corrected. :-)

guys guys... calm

remember.. if aeilkema complains... it's actually good. tis how you know you've got it right ;)

:-)

Hehe...I don't mind the commercial threads anyway, even if this one isn't really ;). Oh, and btw, they DID lift that, so ner. LOL

Laurie

LaurieA,

Your tag line scares me.

I used to be married so you know,

I don't scare easily.

:-)

Also, your cat is cute. :-)

Tom

LOL. Funny, hubby said the same thing ;)

Hahahaha.

Laurie

BTW - yes, she is cute. Hehe.

Big and dumb, but lovable!  :-)

Yes that is my nap chair and he fills it quite nicely.

Quote - Hehe...I don't mind the commercial threads anyway, even if this one isn't really ;). Oh, and btw, they DID lift that, so ner. LOL

Laurie

I don't mind either, just wondered that's why I asked, thanks for answering. Of course this is thread commercial at any forum a mod would edit and flag it as that. but I'm sorry for asking the question in this thread, no need to get all angry, it's just a question and it's answered now, so I'll be on my way again.

That stripe technique is very cool

The insight into how it works is very much appreciated BB...

Looking forward to getting that car too...

...and nice cat Tom... ;-)