userIbl shader from mr 3.10

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Re: userIbl shader from mr 3.10

Post by Kzin » 24 May 2012, 22:20

i agree about this but the good thing is that the whole bugfixing problem is changing right now.

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Re: userIbl shader from mr 3.10

Post by Kzin » 25 May 2012, 08:47

i post this here, hope that max hears this. ;)

it looks like that the ibl thru geo shader works correctly in 2013 with phys sky. can someone else check this with 2013? would make some things easier. had not that much time to test this further, but will go on later this day.

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Re: userIbl shader from mr 3.10

Post by Maximus » 25 May 2012, 13:03

Kzin wrote:i post this here, hope that max hears this. ;)

it looks like that the ibl thru geo shader works correctly in 2013 with phys sky. can someone else check this with 2013? would make some things easier. had not that much time to test this further, but will go on later this day.
Hi Kzin, what you mean it works correctly in 2013? I just tested and you always have to "refresh" the render everytime you make a change, so it makes impossible to use it cause when i have 3 milions poly scene to refresh most of the time Softimage halts and crashes. Doesnt seem to me its changed, thanks for the help tho! :)

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Re: userIbl shader from mr 3.10

Post by Kzin » 25 May 2012, 14:17

Maximus wrote:
Kzin wrote:i post this here, hope that max hears this. ;)

it looks like that the ibl thru geo shader works correctly in 2013 with phys sky. can someone else check this with 2013? would make some things easier. had not that much time to test this further, but will go on later this day.
Hi Kzin, what you mean it works correctly in 2013? I just tested and you always have to "refresh" the render everytime you make a change, so it makes impossible to use it cause when i have 3 milions poly scene to refresh most of the time Softimage halts and crashes. Doesnt seem to me its changed, thanks for the help tho! :)
it works only when you use physical sky as environment in 2013. everytime i changed a value in the shader the region update were right without to refresh it twice. its a bit strange, so pls test it with physical sky.


another one is the user_ibl shadow problem, its mentioned in the mi forum because this happens also in max, so it looks good that mi will fix this bug soon.

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Re: userIbl shader from mr 3.10

Post by Maximus » 25 May 2012, 16:06

Kzin wrote:
Maximus wrote:
Kzin wrote:i post this here, hope that max hears this. ;)

it looks like that the ibl thru geo shader works correctly in 2013 with phys sky. can someone else check this with 2013? would make some things easier. had not that much time to test this further, but will go on later this day.
Hi Kzin, what you mean it works correctly in 2013? I just tested and you always have to "refresh" the render everytime you make a change, so it makes impossible to use it cause when i have 3 milions poly scene to refresh most of the time Softimage halts and crashes. Doesnt seem to me its changed, thanks for the help tho! :)
it works only when you use physical sky as environment in 2013. everytime i changed a value in the shader the region update were right without to refresh it twice. its a bit strange, so pls test it with physical sky.


another one is the user_ibl shadow problem, its mentioned in the mi forum because this happens also in max, so it looks good that mi will fix this bug soon.
i was using it with sun+sky, gonna try to remove the sun.
Not sure about the useribl shadow problem since the fix probably happen soon for everyone but us, maybe we'll get it fixed in 1 year :)

i'll get back to you, Thanks Kzin

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Re: userIbl shader from mr 3.10

Post by Maximus » 25 May 2012, 17:42

Tested it and i couldnt figure out what the heck is happening.
For sure you have to refresh it at least twice to have changes in real time (ya a step a head compared to 2012 where you always had to refresh).

Still after you work with render region and hit "Preview" you are once again back to black render (or render that doesnt update for that matters), have to hit the "lock" icon and "refresh" to get it kicks in. Using "Render" > "Render current Frame" to write file to disk doesnt work.

I also switched to FB "none" in the "others" tab of ctrl_ghost ppg. It seemed to help.
Framebuffer is totally fucked up. Gonna test a bit more but i dont have high hopes.

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Re: userIbl shader from mr 3.10

Post by Kzin » 25 May 2012, 18:35

keep in mind that the geo shader and the way it sends its data to mr is xsi related and not a mr problem. i wanted to make this clear one more time that ad is responsible for things like this, passing data to mr.

ok, tested it more deeply, builtin_ibl is working now properly, BUT only for render region. means in other words, useless for final rendering because the scene is not correctly updated and passed to mr.
i think its the new render region feature that makes this happen. now you can only update the region when you move the cam for example, so ad had to change the way the region sends data to mr. but they forgot to implement this new way also for passes rendering (i am pretty sure they dont even know what they do, looks alot like this).

set fb managment to none makes the whole thing working, it looks like this. but will also have to make more tests.

EDIT: it works now, also on renderpasses with animated env intensity. of yourse final rendering in a farm needs to be tested seperately.

EDIT2: no, it does not work, dont know whats going on, it works in one second and failed in another one.

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Re: userIbl shader from mr 3.10

Post by Kzin » 06 Aug 2012, 13:23

ok, would be great if some of you could test this because i dont trust my own tests anymore in terms of user_ibl. ;)

in the rendersettings, under shadows, set the type to enabled instead of segment and render. it looks like the user ibl shadow shadow mode 2 is working with this setting, tested it in a simple scene with transparent red glas and all is working like expected.

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Re: userIbl shader from mr 3.10

Post by Maximus » 06 Aug 2012, 13:29

Yes it works. At first i didnt say anything because i've modified my mental ray options spdl to start always with Shadows enable, since this is how it should have been by default. So everything was working to me.

Anyway i can confirm that if you switch from enabled to segmented they dont work anymore. So keep it at enabled.

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Re: userIbl shader from mr 3.10

Post by Kzin » 06 Aug 2012, 13:35

Maximus wrote:Yes it works. At first i didnt say anything because i've modified my mental ray options spdl to start always with Shadows enable, since this is how it should have been by default. So everything was working to me.

Anyway i can confirm that if you switch from enabled to segmented they dont work anymore. So keep it at enabled.
argh, you should have stated this some time ago, perhaps we had found the problem earlier. ;)

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Re: userIbl shader from mr 3.10

Post by Kzin » 15 Dec 2012, 17:47

mia_material color falloff for reflections dont work in "enabled" shadow mode that must be used for transparent shadows with ibl.
for this, use the "mib_dielectric" shader with its absorbtion color feature. it can be find in rendertree under mental ray-->material. use this node as input for additionel color slot in the mia mat.

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Re: userIbl shader from mr 3.10

Post by Nox » 16 Apr 2013, 15:53

Good day,

I'm testing this shader and have a problem with noise. There is no specular effects in scene. I've tried different materials (Arch, Mila, Mia Advanced, legacy) and hdri images, high sample values but ugly noise is still there.

My setup: create area light, turn on visible, select shape as user, connect user_ibl_env with hdri and set samples along with light samples. Am I missing something?

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Re: userIbl shader from mr 3.10

Post by Kzin » 16 Apr 2013, 16:25

Nox wrote:Good day,

I'm testing this shader and have a problem with noise. There is no specular effects in scene. I've tried different materials (Arch, Mila, Mia Advanced, legacy) and hdri images, high sample values but ugly noise is still there.

My setup: create area light, turn on visible, select shape as user, connect user_ibl_env with hdri and set samples along with light samples. Am I missing something?

no spec, yep, thats the BIG problem. their is actually no consistence workflow with mr's ibl and shaders in general and spec/reflect workflow because nothing is connected because of the outdated mr integration.
you would need a native implementation of booth, mila and ibl (also for mia, but let us stop to talk about mia because its heavily outdated) and of course different visibility options that follows the new lpe paradigm.

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Re: userIbl shader from mr 3.10

Post by Nox » 17 Apr 2013, 10:43

Yes, I'm aware that MR is all about this. But I see nice images above and wonder what's wrong? I have that noise even on simple plane + sphere...

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Re: userIbl shader from mr 3.10

Post by Kzin » 17 Apr 2013, 11:59

Nox wrote:Yes, I'm aware that MR is all about this. But I see nice images above and wonder what's wrong? I have that noise even on simple plane + sphere...
noisefree renderns will take a long time, its true for every renderer which is using brute force method.
the question is how much noise is acceptable for you and your client.

can you post an image and your ibl settings?

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Re: userIbl shader from mr 3.10

Post by Nox » 17 Apr 2013, 20:53

Sure, this is really basic stuff. Light comes from one user_ibl, 2 arch mats with 0,318 diffuse. I think settings are overkill for such scene, but as you can see it's extremely noisy anyway.

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