Shadow light falloff

[Sawyer]

A while ago I was working on a toon style figure with vray toon and shadow/lght falloff maps. I kept getting an error with the material and I abandoned the look and forgot about it. I was just doing a table cloth and I tried to add a shadow/light falloff but again the same overbright error with dots everywhere. Is it not possible to use a falloff with shadow light?

Thanks

[DaForce]

Shadow light doesnt work so well, as with GI renders, in a sense there is shadow and light everywhere.
That material was designed for 1 shadow and 1 light.. if you know what I mean.

[Sawyer]

That material was designed for 1 shadow and 1 light.. if you know what I mean.

Yeah that was my assumption. It does make a nice toon effect though.

[DaForce]

Try using a gradient ramp set to "lighting" its alot more forgiving

[Sawyer]

Daforce that is a pretty nifty tip. Thanks

[DaForce]

Not a problem mate. Glad to help

[percydaman]

my little benchmark scene with the toonshaded teapot uses a falloff set to shadow/light, but I had to set it up very specifically.

[DaForce]

Yeah its pretty damn hard to work with really. Gradient ramp is more forgiving in that sense.

But you did well to make it render without errors.. only one light affecting it I assume?

[percydaman]

if your referring to me then yes. And I believe it was completely turned off to GI. Ill have to try the gradient ramp thingy. I used to have this sweet cloth shader that used shadow/light falloff maps for the 'fuzz'. Had to ditch it due to issues.