Native Terrain Mask worked in older v-ray versions, but not anymore?

[torebernhoft]

Hello, it seems the native c4d terrain mask shader did work as expected in older v-ray versions, but I can't get this to work in V-Ray 6. This feature would be awesome to have working again!

See video with this working here:
https://youtu.be/XDXBWFTLxfg?feature=shared&t=784

Also see my attached screenshot where I can somewhat emulate this using a VRayLayered > masked with VRayFalloff (Distance Blend) > VRayFalloff (Perpendicular) x2. But it leaves some snow on unwanted areas, and no real slope control.

[viktor_angelov]

Hello torebernhoft We are currently not supporting the Terrain Mask. You can find all of the Supported features here: https://docs.chaos.com/display/VC4D/...ading-Textures

[viktor_angelov]

Hello torebernhoft We are currently not supporting the Terrain Mask. You can find all of the Supported features here: https://docs.chaos.com/display/VC4D/...ading-Textures

[torebernhoft]

Hello torebernhoft We are currently not supporting the Terrain Mask. You can find all of the Supported features here: https://docs.chaos.com/display/VC4D/...ading-Textures

Hello viktor_angelov Thanks, yes I know I have studied this list of supported features many times. My question is why was it supported on earlier V-Rays versions, but not anymore?

[viktor_angelov]

Thank you for clarifying that, torebernhoft

Please, keep in mind that others developed and supported the earliest versions of V-Ray for Cinema 4D. When we took over we re-wrote V-Ray 5 completely. V-Ray 3.5 had features that has been deprecated from V-Ray 5.
It is not expected that everything has been converted as a lot has been changed or replaced.

[torebernhoft]

Thank you for clarifying that, torebernhoft

Please, keep in mind that others developed and supported the earliest versions of V-Ray for Cinema 4D. When we took over we re-wrote V-Ray 5 completely. V-Ray 3.5 had features that has been deprecated from V-Ray 5.
It is not expected that everything has been converted as a lot has been changed or replaced.

I understand now I will manage with the VRayFalloff at the moment. But it would be fantastic if we get native terrain shader support in the future!

[akos_kiss]

Hi,

We have an upcoming project that will have a bigger amount of enviroment work required. The vray falloff shader is ok, but since the remap node is sill not working properly it is a pain to get exact results from it.

The terrain shader (among others) would be a really useful addition to vray. Even if it only works with the c4d bake shader. A bunch of these effects shaders have been unsupported since vray 5. There are some that are totally deprecated because of v-rays built in shaders but here are a few that are really useful and now the only workflow is to bake these shaders as images or image sequences and somehow try to recreate it in v-ray. If you want to animate the terrain mask for example you have to bake out an animated sequence and then import it back in.

IMHO there are a few shaders that are still needed. Not in any order i listed them below.

• Terrain mask
• Distorter
• Weathering
• Ripple
• Spline
• Variation

[torebernhoft]

The fidelity of a native (even baked) Terrain mask ++ c4d shaders would be much better and faster to use. I have tried messing around with rendering out maps as you mention akos_kiss but the results are not as good, and sometimes even impossible to get right. So yes it would be amazing to have these "native" in V-Ray

[viktor_angelov]

Hello akos_kiss torebernhoft Thank you for your feedback and suggestions. We have logged them into our system and will be discussing them [VC4D-2032]

[torebernhoft]

Hello akos_kiss torebernhoft Thank you for your feedback and suggestions. We have logged them into our system and will be discussing them [VC4D-2032]

Very nice! You are the best!