So.... I wanted to move this discussion out of the render thread before it completely takes over the Dusk render thread...
Well, I'll admit that I didn't realize these were in DS, but I can't say I'm too surprised either. I have not really done much with Shader Mixer/Baker at all yet. I mostly stick to the standard shaders, AOA_SSS, Ubersurface, etc. I think I know which shader pack you're talking about... and that's another case of I use the thumbnails to show me what each thing does because the names on the icons mean nothing to me. LOL
Yeah. Pen, I've seen that page before... I've read that page repeatedly. To be honest? Not even halfway through the first paragraph and I am already lost. It does not make sense to me - they might as well be speaking to me in Gaelic or Latin. I do not understand anything on that page. I've looked these properties up before, repeatedly, trying to understand them.
I just don't understand what they are, how to use them, how to know WHEN to use them, or what they're supposed to actually DO - and everything I've read on them is made up of so much technical jargon that my eyes glaze over and I get nothing from it... I need the explanations in English. I don't understand the math, and with everything I've read trying to understand some of these properties, it's so technical that I don't learn anything from it other than how to become more frustrated...
Blinn and Phong aren't exclusive to Poser. I've a set of advanced wood shaders for Studio which use them as well. Neither did anything I wanted so I just kept to the other options.
They're one of V3D's packages and came out some time ago. (One of their advantages is that they have the a rotated version when the texture needs to go at 90 degrees to the way it comes normally.) There are other options in them that I didn't recognize as well.
Well, I'll admit that I didn't realize these were in DS, but I can't say I'm too surprised either. I have not really done much with Shader Mixer/Baker at all yet. I mostly stick to the standard shaders, AOA_SSS, Ubersurface, etc. I think I know which shader pack you're talking about... and that's another case of I use the thumbnails to show me what each thing does because the names on the icons mean nothing to me. LOL
They have bricks in Shader Mixer which have access to Blinn and Phong. It's a fairly standard shader model and you see it in many programs that allow you to create shader networks.
Blinn–Phong shading model - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yeah. Pen, I've seen that page before... I've read that page repeatedly. To be honest? Not even halfway through the first paragraph and I am already lost. It does not make sense to me - they might as well be speaking to me in Gaelic or Latin. I do not understand anything on that page. I've looked these properties up before, repeatedly, trying to understand them.
I just don't understand what they are, how to use them, how to know WHEN to use them, or what they're supposed to actually DO - and everything I've read on them is made up of so much technical jargon that my eyes glaze over and I get nothing from it... I need the explanations in English. I don't understand the math, and with everything I've read trying to understand some of these properties, it's so technical that I don't learn anything from it other than how to become more frustrated...