This is an early implementation and it may still change based on your feedback, so please let us know what you think about it, what is great, and what isn’t.
We are also very interested in the differences you notice between the Corona AO and Curvature, and when exactly you would choose to use which.
Basic usage:
Create a new Corona Curvature Map in the material editor.
Plug it into any material property you wish, or use it as a mask to mix various properties/materials.
An example where AO and Curvature produce a similar result:
An example where AO and Curvature produce a visibly different result:
Hi devs, thank for new CurvatureMap, it works fine with black base color but doesn’t with white. Please see attachment for more details… Or I do smt. wrong?
I thought the entire point of the curvature map was to control the angle at which it happens? There isn’t any control over it’s parameters. How is this any different from AO? (other than it’s only self-referential).
From my layman’s perspective, AO looks for occlusion, it doesn’t care about surface flatness. Curvature map does the opposite - it looks for surface flatness and doesn’t care about occlussion. The fact that highly curved surface is almost always self occluding, makes AO look similar to curvature, but in fact those are quite distinct maps and their output can be tuned to serve different purposes. Angle threshold control would be interesting to have and already has been requested, but to be honest i didn’t see such control implemented in any curvature map (not that i saw many of them), maybe it’s technically hard to implement, or its usage is not very practical?
