Edge Shader?

V-Ray V-Ray for Cinema 4D Issues
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I’m converting an older scene to V-ray 5 that relied heavily on the 3.7 V-ray Grid Shader for this mesh product:

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Any chance the Grid shader is going to be added back, like, really soon? I’m kind of stuck on how to move forward. Alternative suggestions welcome.

Edited: not awake enough. I kept typing edge shader when I meant grid shader.

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For things like that a C4D tile shader will be enough. Edge shader will be useful for other things though so I hope they will add it soon. You can get something similar also by tuning the curvature shader but is not efficient at all.

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Hi Sirio, yeah, I actually meant the Grid Shader, but kept typing edge shader (not enough coffee).

C4D’s tile shader was the first thing I tried, but it’s taking a while to get it to work as well for me as the Grid Shader did. This is geometry wrapped along a spline, and I was getting bad distortions in the bulges with C4D’s tile shader that I wasn’t getting with V-ray’s Grid Shader. But maybe there’s something wrong with my spline set up.

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Hello @GMTJay ,

I have added a new request (ID: VC4D-1318 ) for implementing the Grid shader inside V-Ray 5. We also have an existing request for implementing the VRayEdgeTex Shader (ID: VC4D-917). However, I am afraid that I cannot provide any specific time frames for when those shaders will be added.

I will let you know as soon as we have any updates. Thanks.

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Thanks as always, Aleksandar!

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Hello,

Just to let you know that we just implemented the VRayEdgesTex (request ID: VC4D-917) and it is available in our latest stable build. You can download it and install it from here.

The shader is available both in the classic and the node materials.

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Great news, thanks for the update!

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Awesome! Thanks, Aleksandar!