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[glorybound]

Who owns this

Just noticed that you can download another version of the plugin off the site from here; that RAR archive is about twice the size of the demo archive.

I am confused... I paid $50 from the maker of vrayscatter and it doesn't work. This is a totally different site.

[sea2stars]

Odd.

I'm still using the old ancient version on 2008.

[glorybound]

gradient edge

Does it work in 2010?

[sea2stars]

I have 2010 installed but haven't started using it for production yet.

Nope.. I just copied it over from my 2008 install and it won't initialize; neither will the 2009 version.

[glorybound]

gradient edge.

Bummer. I remember it not working so I bought the new one, which doesn't work for me. Does anybody else have any other solutions for what gradient edge allowed us to do, which was to blend materials together along edges?

[sea2stars]

Masks, but they can be time consuming. What is the issue you're having with the plugin?

You can also try ColorEdge from ItooSoft which is free.

[glorybound]

Gradient Edge

The issue I am having is I am not getting a smooth material transition. The transition is jagged. I contacted their support, but after 3 weeks I haven't had any replies. I looked into the tool from Itoosoft, which by the way answers their support posts, but it works much different. What I used gradient edge for was to soften up the sharp material transition edges like from grass to asphalt.

[sea2stars]

It works different, but with a little work it might meed your needs temporarily.

Here's a test scene I just put together using a VrayBlendMtl and the ColorEdge as a mask; hiding any edges I didn't want included. You'll need to download the plugin to take a look at it though.

[glorybound]

gradient edge

I'll check it out, thanks.

[glorybound]

Gradient Edge

Thanks for the share and it looks great. Now I remember why I didn't use itooosft's plug-in. It works until you a displacement on the grass part.

[sea2stars]

You the whole thing?

3D displacement should work.

[sea2stars]

Another quick and dirty test. 3D displacement with a displacement map masked using ColorEdge.

There's a seam on the smaller sphere where the two meshes interface, but I'm guessing that's due to the low number of segments.

[glorybound]

Displacement

Can you post that second file? All i am getting is the displacement around the edge of the plane.

[glorybound]

gradient edge

I guess I can copy my road plane over itself and raise the second one a tad. I can apply the color edge to the top and make it, in this case, lighter. The darker bottom plane with show through on the edges.

[sea2stars]

Ahh.. I didn't modify the original meshes at all. Let me create a file with a flat and warped plane? I'll have to change the displacement texture to a noise map though.