volume solid shader?

[themaxxer]

hello all

is there a way to add thickness to an opacity mapped material (without displacement)?
I read a lot and it seems mental ray has something to simulate thickness.

the post: http://forums.cgarchitect.com/38739-...acity-map.html

someone meant you should ask chaosgroup for a volume solid shader for vray...? is something similar existing?

best regards
themaxxer

[MathTheRender]

i defenetly second that! maybe even with a map slot or a curve graph for the thickness! that would do a great job in cases where a displacement would take just too much time to compute because it would be too detailed.

[Pixelcon]

I've been wanting something like this for ages. Being able to do complex mesh screens with thickness or being able to avoid complex linework would be great!

[NicoC]

Ahhhh yes ! there's a VolumeSolid shader in finalRender (we use it for some prod), and it's simply amazing. I wish we had something like that in VRay as well.
However, in finalRender, VolSolid shader has some very annoying limitations with G-Buffer !

[rs3d]

Such a shader would be amazing, the only thing related in way is the the fog function but
in general the field of volume effects is quite underrepresented in VRay...