VRay EdgeTex fillet

[hanaishi]

(first post) Hi to everybody! I'm an happy user of Blender and VRay.

I've a question about the edgetex.

In this tutorial: http://www.peterguthrie.net/blog/200...llet-tutorial/
and here:
you can see how the edgetex can be used to create a fillet on the edges, without the use
of the bevel modifier or without modelling the detail.

I've tried to reproduce this with no results:
or no effect:

or an error (if the edgetex influences only the bump/normal channel):

V-Ray/Blender: Writing frame 1...
Traceback (most recent call last):        
  File "/opt/blender/2.58/scripts/startup/vb25/render_ops.py", line 952, in render
    vb25.render.render(self, scene)
  File "/opt/blender/2.58/scripts/startup/vb25/render.py", line 1960, in render
    err= write_scene(bus)
  File "/opt/blender/2.58/scripts/startup/vb25/render.py", line 1769, in write_scene
    write_frame(bus)
  File "/opt/blender/2.58/scripts/startup/vb25/render.py", line 1737, in write_frame
    _write_object(bus)
  File "/opt/blender/2.58/scripts/startup/vb25/render.py", line 1501, in _write_object
    write_object(bus)
  File "/opt/blender/2.58/scripts/startup/vb25/render.py", line 1250, in write_object
    write_materials(bus)
  File "/opt/blender/2.58/scripts/startup/vb25/render.py", line 987, in write_materials
    mtls_list.append(write_material(bus))
  File "/opt/blender/2.58/scripts/startup/vb25/render.py", line 840, in write_material
    brdf= PLUGINS['BRDF']['BRDFBump'].write(bus, base_brdf= brdf)
  File "/opt/blender/2.58/scripts/startup/vb25/plugins/BRDFBump.py", line 131, in write
    ofile.write("\n\tnormal_uvwgen= %s;" % bus['material']['normal_uvwgen'])
KeyError: 'normal_uvwgen'

location:<unknown location>:-1

location:<unknown location>:-1

Is this a difference between vray for max and vray for maya? I don't think so.
So, what's the trick behind? I'm doing something wrong?

Thank you!

[nizu]

Re: VRay EdgeTex fillet

Hi,

I think that might be a 'deprecated' / old method , not sure why it won't work , but the proper method should be the smooth edges brdf .

It's a plugin where you pass a material through it , and get the edges smoothed at rendertime.
(same idea as your example but there's a 'dedicated' function for that)

It's in standalone but not implemented yet in VB , it would be cool and useful, it's quite simple in terms of UI (a checkbox and a number) but not so quick to code in the exporter as it requires (afaik) passing the material through another brdf (as already happens with bump)

[hanaishi]

Re: VRay EdgeTex fillet

Thank you very much for your answer nizu.
If this is true, I can only wait and hope that izrantsev implements this function and, at the moment, I continue to use the usual bevel modifier.