vrayiso-like volumetric material.

[super gnu]

or it could be a modifier.

vraymetaballs doesnt cut it at all.. a) you need to fanny around with particles and b) its very hard to get something that doesnt look blobby.

vrayiso was easily capable of doing insanely detailed sponges, rocks, bread etc etc. and various other materials that are almost impossible to do in vray these days.

i want a proper volumetric material i can assign to a mesh, that i can both control directly with noise and other 3d procedurals, and ideally, have presets for various materials.

or, as mentioned, it could be a modifier, but since youd likely need a special material or map to go with it, a "volume" material would be more sensible.

[super gnu]

hm.. in restrospect, maybe a modifier would be better, otherwise youd have problems assigning the various nice vray shaders to your isosurface.

[super gnu]

ok so, i take back the "only blobby stuff" comment.. i wasnt using the procedural mapping properly.

however it would be very useful indeed if vraymetaball had a simple "fill volume" setting, that allowed you to avoid the use of particles entirely. its a whole layer of complexity that is unnecessary when using it for volumetric materials.

[ben_hamburg]

I second that. Doing lots of medical animations I tend to work procedurally a lot, so that would be an awsome addition!

[Art48]

+1., would love to se that, too