normal adjustment

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Hello,
i found something :

https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?131825

but i`m standing in front of a wall..
is there any trick to do this in max?

have you guys an idea?


yours
Thorsten

[Rens]

VRayEdgesTex in the bump slot with a wide radius for rounded corners combined with a VRayDistanceTex for the map blending looks like it would do the trick.

[Svetlozar Draganov]

That's interesting one, I followed Rens' suggestion and I got some very nice results:

Scene: http://ftp.chaosgroup.com/support/sc...e_blending.max

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

That's interesting one, I followed Rens' suggestion and I got some very nice results:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]36500[/ATTACH]
Scene: http://ftp.chaosgroup.com/support/sc...e_blending.max

Very cool, I've pushed it little further:

edge_blending.zip

I wonder how much of a performance hit it is to add these blending maps with distance tex?

Regards
Dariusz


EDIT 1.

I managed to push it even further. Using world normal as filter mask color for simulating wind direction and increasing blend from 1 side further than the other. The only issue I have is that picking specific color is very hard.

Is there any way Chaos devs could write up a selection color shader containing color + color radius that we could pick from normal map ? This way we can easily simulate direction of snow/sand and how much we want it to overlap from 1 side over another. Attached scene. Would be a great adition to any arch scenes that needs nice sand/snow blending with direction rather than generic z-up.

I could actually use something like that on my current project o.o

edge_blending01.zip

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in addition i added volume select,push&noise modifiers to break the staight intersection line on the groundplane , just for a test
and used an output map on the vrayDistancetex to controll the blur/sharpness
before:

after:


very nice solution,
thanks!

[rikou]

very interesting approach... I'll play with that ASAP !
Thanks guys !

[Rens]

Hehe, nice!

[Alan Iglesias]

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