Advanced Bitmap and Mesh light

[MED-Chris]

Hi to everyone.

At first I need to say, that you have done a really good Job with Vray 5.

2 Points I really miss so much, that Im not sure if I will downgrade again.

1. Point and this is for me and massive step back - is that there is no adv. Bit Map where I can make fine adjustment on my texture, like hue, saturation, and so on - like in Vray 3.7. This was really really usefull for me, but I feel it just right now, because its not there anymore - hehehe
2. Point which is not so important but I wondering why I can find it anymore are mesh lights - they where very useful for me.

I just like to know if this points will not come in future or if they are on list to too in future?
or maybe there are new ways how I can solve this problems.

I look forward to your answers
Chris

[YunalZobu]

Hi Chris,

for the fine color adjustments you can now use C4D's Filter shader.

Support for Filter shader without baking

[deyan.hadzhiev]

Hi MED-Chris,

2. Point which is not so important but I wondering why I can find it anymore are mesh lights - they where very useful for me.

Unfortunately we don't have the mesh lights just yet, but it is in our to-do list and will be implemented in the future.

[MED-Chris]

Thank you to all your answer- they where very helpfull!!!

Thanks

[michael_mazzitelli]

Hi guys,

Is there another solution for now regarding to the mesh light?

I was using it a lot for indirect lights that go arround curves etc, and i cant really find a good way to replace it.

Maybe one of you can help me out with this problem

Thanks a lot and cheers,

Mike

[MED-Chris]

Yes Michael, I miss it also more every day when I work. I didnt realize how much I used mesh light - heheh

[michael_mazzitelli]

Ok, i manage to fake it somehow.

create a vray material, on diffuse layer go to "self-illumination" tag, load a simple plain white image, enable "self-illumination Affects GI" and "Compensate Camera Exposure", apply the texture to the object you want to emit light and it should work. The brightness of the "light-source" you can than turn up and down by going into the texture and set the exposure of the image to a higher value.

cheers,
Mike

[YunalZobu]

If you're going to use it with a shader, I'd suggest taking a look into the Light material

[michael_mazzitelli]

I just tried it with the light material, didnt know there is one. But when i apply it on my object i want to emit light, nothing happens.

What do i have to do to let it light? When i change the colour multiplier value nothing happens.

can you maybe explain me how it works?

[MichaelLammens]

Hi Chris,

for the fine color adjustments you can now use C4D's Filter shader.

Hi Chris,
A native C4D Filter shader doesn't seem to work on my materials. Am I missing something?