Material help needed please :)

[NicoC]

Hello all

We need very very often to do illuminated signs for our projects. I always find them not very convincing, and I'm trying to find a quick & easy way to do what our clients like/want ... you can see enclosed a quick sample of a test I've just done, using VRay EdgeTex, VRay Light Material and VRay Dirt. There are obviously undesired edges on the S and G thickness ... is there a way to avoid that, getting EdgeTex to ignore such edges ? or, in other terms, to get VRayTex considering only edges by smoothing groups ? that would be amazing !
Do you guys have ideas about a method to get the result I'm looing for, please ? I really want to do it all in a material, and not to produce additional geometry.

Many thanks in advance for you help !

Regards

[AlexP]

I would scrap the edges tex and just use Vray Dirt alone.

[tashko.zashev]

Hi,

There is one solution for this, but you will have to edit your geo.
> add Edit mesh > select all unwanted edges > go to Surface properties > set them Invisible

[NicoC]

I would scrap the edges tex and just use Vray Dirt alone.

Yup, me too, but that doesn't produce the result we want

[NicoC]

Hi,

There is one solution for this, but you will have to edit your geo.
> add Edit mesh > select all unwanted edges > go to Surface properties > set them Invisible
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Good idea ! I hadn't thought about this option, that's indeed a nice step forward, thanks for the suggestion ! not ideal, but still better than nothing
However, do you think it would be possible to add an option to VRay EdgeTex to handle Smoothing Groups ? that would be really perfect in such cases ....

Thanks !

[tashko.zashev]

do you think it would be possible to add an option to VRay EdgeTex to handle Smoothing Groups ?

Yes, we have it in our "to do" list, so at some point this workflow will be possible.

[NicoC]

Yes, we have it in our "to do" list, so at some point this workflow will be possible.

Great news ! I can't wait
Thanks for your feedback.

Regards.