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Chaos Corona for Cinema 4D => [C4D] Bug Reporting => [C4D] Resolved Bugs => Topic started by: illbru on 2017-06-20, 16:02:03

Title: Corona AO radius with bitmap
Post by: illbru on 2017-06-20, 16:02:03

hi, How does "max distance texture" in Ao shader works? I want to use a texture as a mask for occluded/unoccluded colors but i can't define the radius once i use a texture.
Thank you

Title: Re: Corona AO radius with bitmap
Post by: houska on 2017-06-21, 11:24:13

Hi, I tried changing max distance while Occluded and Unoccluded textures were specified and everything worked fine. The AO shader samples the surroundings of every point on the geometry by casting rays. The max distance parameter then specifies the maximum length of such a ray.

Could you maybe show us on a picture what is wrong?

Title: Re: Corona AO radius with bitmap
Post by: illbru on 2017-06-21, 11:33:51

I am loading a texture in the max distance texture slot, not in the occluded or unoccluded texture slot.
What i am trying toi achieve is to use a texture to mask occluded and unoccluded color in order to avoid that plain gradient transition between the 2 colors.
I used to do this in Vray, i used a texture in dirt map but the i could still use the radius value.
Maybe my workflow in corona is wrong.

Title: Re: Corona AO radius with bitmap
Post by: Behrendt on 2017-06-21, 11:44:26

It seems to work with floating point values. If you load a C4D-Color shader into the slot you can compare the results. 100% White gives you 1cm radius, 200% white gives your 2cm radius, and so on...

Title: Re: Corona AO radius with bitmap
Post by: houska on 2017-06-21, 13:12:29

My appologies, now I understand what you were trying to achieve. Yes, it seems like a bug indeed. I will move it into the bugreports section.

Thank you!

Title: Re: Corona AO radius with bitmap
Post by: illbru on 2017-06-22, 10:53:11

Great! Thank you!