VRayDistanceTex "self-distancing"

[Shimakaze]

I've noticed there doesn't seem to be any way for VrayDistanceTex to let objects affect themselves the way you can with dirt. Is there any way to add that functionality? It would be really useful. Especially when used with complex materials or tweaks in Simbiont shaders to add things like rust and dirt in crevices.

[vlado]

It is somewhat more complicated... VRayDistanceTex looks for the closest point from the list of meshes; if we included the same object, then the closest point would be trivially the one that is being shaded. We would need to add more complex to logic to define what points would be acceptable as closest points based on their normals or similar. It's not impossible though, will think about it.

Best regards,
Vlado

[kimgar]

yes, this would be very nice for terrains too, really hoping for this. distanceTex and pflow is a killer combo

[Shimakaze]

I'm guessing it would slow things down a bit so it would probably be best to add it as an optional check box and not by default. I'm really hoping to see it happening though!

[rs3d]

Such an "internal" option would be great...

[Dubbie99]

The option I would love to have is a checkbox to make this shader work off verts only. This will allow me to make custom voronoi point distributions.
It should be trivial to impliment too.

[vlado]

The option I would love to have is a checkbox to make this shader work off verts only. This will allow me to make custom voronoi point distributions.
It should be trivial to impliment too.

It works with particles, and you can distribute particles on the vertices of an object.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Da_elf]

by self distancing... dont they mean the vray dirt material?

[samuel_bubat]

by self distancing... dont they mean the vray dirt material?

I was thinking the same. A Vray dirt should do the trick.

[Jiri.Matys]

Dirt cant be used as distance tex.

[samuel_bubat]

Dirt cant be used as distance tex.

To a certain degree it can. Why not ?

[Jiri.Matys]

I dont know what you are looking for. But the reason why distance tex is here in a first place is because can do displace which dirt cant.