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Chaos Corona for 3ds Max => [Max] Feature Requests => [Max] Resolved Feature Requests => Topic started by: fobus on 2015-06-13, 19:25:21

Title: CoronaDistance
Post by: fobus on 2015-06-13, 19:25:21
It would be great to have texture that work like a VrayDistance map.
Title: Re: CoronaDistance
Post by: nauticus25 on 2015-06-15, 15:17:58
Agreed.  This would be very helpful for creating tire wear and oil stains on roads.
Title: Re: CoronaDistance
Post by: j_forrester on 2015-06-15, 16:55:38
This would be very useful!!!!
Title: Re: CoronaDistance
Post by: Ludvik Koutny on 2015-06-16, 09:40:08
Yep, i too found DistanceTex priceless when using Vray. But once/if we get it in Corona, it will be desperately obvious we stole it from Vray. It was one hell of a great idea, i give them that :)
Title: Re: CoronaDistance
Post by: pokoy on 2015-06-16, 10:23:55
Yep, i too found DistanceTex priceless when using Vray. But once/if we get it in Corona, it will be desperately obvious we stole it from Vray. It was one hell of a great idea, i give them that :)

So I'm one of those guys who lived under a rock and never really used Vray - what's the distance map about?
Title: Re: CoronaDistance
Post by: fobus on 2015-06-16, 10:44:03
I knew it will look as stolen feature, but we really needed one. May be dev team will even improve it some way to not look like it is completely stolen (like Dirt and many others may look like too).

to_pokoy: It is procedural that is measuring distance to listed objects and generates gradient by this distance between objects...

P.S.: I'm sorry for this external concurrent renderer link http://docs.chaosgroup.com/display/VRAY3/VRayDistanceTex# (http://docs.chaosgroup.com/display/VRAY3/VRayDistanceTex#)
Title: Re: CoronaDistance
Post by: maru on 2015-06-16, 10:48:53
Out of curiosity: what is it useful for other than spheres and boxes with gradients around or waves around coasts?
Title: Re: CoronaDistance
Post by: pokoy on 2015-06-16, 11:06:00
Neat... so you can generate texture details based on geometry? Seems very useful to me.
Title: Re: CoronaDistance
Post by: fobus on 2015-06-16, 11:43:30
We're using it mostly as a dirt generator on streets, marking generator on streets etc.
Title: Re: CoronaDistance
Post by: pokoy on 2015-06-16, 19:27:54
Funny, I am just in a situation where this would save me a lot of work. I didn't even know I needed it.
'Stolen' or not, I don't care! ;)
Title: Re: CoronaDistance
Post by: Ondra on 2016-08-22, 19:28:29
done