point rendering to pickup normals

[LeoYfver]

Is it possible to pickup normals when doing point rendering. Its something we often use in mantra when foam is in middleground.

in the screenshots you can see the differnece between mantra and vray.

Regards Alexis

[chakarov]

Do you expect normals to affect only lighting/shading or to orient discs by normals ?

[LeoYfver]

only the shading/normals so it matches mantra

[chakarov]

Starting from today, this is the behavior when points has normal attribute and type is set to "Circles".

[LeoYfver]

amazing and fast! will try out as soon as i can

[Dubbie99]

That's great!
This is something I had to use Mantra for a couple of weeks ago.

[LeoYfver]

I just realised that neither scale, circles or point normals works when its an alembic. Is this something that can be fixed?

Regards Alexis

[bdancer]

Could u pls send me some test scene?
Pscale should work, the rest is probably not implemented for Alembic...

[LeoYfver]

pscale works but not the point scale setting as a multiplier on the geo node. Or when a pscale is not set that it takes from the pointscale instead.

[LeoYfver]

bdancer do you think this is something that can be fixed and have an eta? just curious so i know if i can expect it to work in the future

[bdancer]

Changes just passed the review and will be available in the next nightly build.

[LeoYfver]

thats great! will try it out towards the end of the week!

[LeoYfver]

tried it and works perfect, thanks again