MASH and VRay 3.4 test

[alperenozgur]

hi guys, this is my first MASH and VRay 3.4 test in Maya 2016.5. I want to make 5-10 second animaton but i have one problem: i don't want the blue lights to be so solid and flat like that. I used vray meshlight and also tried vray light material but couldnt find a way to make is transparent like ui holograms in movies how can i do that? i want to use procedural noise texture or etc to make it different transparent values along the light emitting surfaces. if anybody can help me i will be grateful.

[yolov]

Does the opacity for the light material help in any way to achieve that?

[alperenozgur]

Does the opacity for the light material help in any way to achieve that?

nope. tried already but maybe im doing something wrong dont know. i tried to plug maya fractal texture to it and increased contrast with sliders and its not changing anything when i render it but it's shows texture on hypershade material preview but im not sure in there too, its chaning opacity or just color values.

[yolov]

Would it be any different if you enabled the alpha is luminance checkbox in the fractal texture's color balance section? Can you share the scene?

[alperenozgur]

Would it be any different if you enabled the alpha is luminance checkbox in the fractal texture's color balance section? Can you share the scene?

yea i tried that alpha is luminance too. no change. so the "opacity" should work you saying? are there any work around for transparent hologram look with emission? 2sided material maybe? im not usin vraymaterial self-illumination because of i need fast GI aka direct illumination.

[alperenozgur]

and here is the animation. i happy with the result https://youtu.be/2_bB-TaxmQU

[snivlem]

Really cool - MASH is one of the nicest updates for Maya.

[alperenozgur]

Really cool - MASH is one of the nicest updates for Maya.

thanks you

[yolov]

Have you tried using multiply color by opacity? The video came out really nice

[FSGFX]

i leave this here... maybe someone needs something to play...
some MASH example files...
https://creativemarket.com/apps/maya/examples

[alperenozgur]

Have you tried using multiply color by opacity? The video came out really nice

yea i tried it but its still not transparent like i want. when i increase transparency its also dims the light intensity too. maybe it's how it used to be normally i dont know but all i want is strong illumination with %75ish transparency.

[alperenozgur]

i leave this here... maybe someone needs something to play...
some MASH example files...
https://creativemarket.com/apps/maya/examples

thank you