Author Topic: Feature Request: Allow for refractive indices lower than 1  (Read 2153 times)

2016-10-16, 12:27:28

Manuhart

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Some materials like metals and alloys have refractive indices that are lower than 1.0 but currently those cannot be used since Corona has a minimum of 1.

2016-10-18, 18:37:17
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AlexejK

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Corona uses the "simplified" model of fresnel without extinction coefficient. So values below 1 are nonsense in this case. Just use the higher values above 20 for metals. If you want to go more accurate, rebuild the complex fresnel curve like iNevestenko did here: https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=13034.0