distance texture with viewport subdiv

[ricorio]

Heyho,

when I pipe a distance texture node to the blend amount of a VrayBlendMtl everythings works the way expected.
Now hitting `3` for smooth mesh preview and enabling the render viewport subdivs in the vray render tab the blending disappears (no near value anymore).
When I convert the smooth mesh preview to polys it works and the blend stays where it belongs.

Am I missing something?

Thanks a lot!

Rico

[ricorio]

I further just realized that if I plug a vector displacement map (vray water text) into the mesh which is the object to define the distance effect the near color disappears too.

[svetlozar.draganov]

Thank you very much for your feedback.
We've made a note about these issues into our system and we will let you know when we have some updates on that matter.

[vlado]

For the moment it is a technical limitation that the distance texture only works with polygonal meshes. We will look into the possibility of supporting other run-time generated geometry types, but I don't know when it will be done.

Best regards,
Vlado

[ricorio]

Thanks for your feedback ... going to stick with mapping so long.