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04-02-2011
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mib_color_mix connections ?
I am currently experimenting with skin shading. Since my girl finally gets her own avatar version of herself I need to make use of misss_fast_skin_maya and misss_skin_specular. both shaders are about to be plugged into the mib_color_mix.
but either I missed a thing or made incorrect connections to the mib_color_mix or it is a buggy thing (which I dont believe!) I added an animatedGIF to show the rendered results. despite the quality of my settings in this stage it shows clearly that with the mib_color_mix (only the misss_fast_skin_maya is stuffed into it right now, but it looks the same with a second shader!) the scattering effect is lost -> watch the ear on the left side.
what I did is to simply drag and drop the sss shader onto the first slot of mib_color_mix. the connection editor shows:
misss_fast_skin_maya (outValue) --> mib_color_mix (color_0)
if I´d connect it to Color Base it will render completely black btw.
I did a lot of reading yesterday but still can´t figure out how to properly connect shaders (in particular SSS shaders) with the mib_color_mix.
can anyone please lend me a helping hand?
many thanks in advance
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04-02-2011
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I realized that this mib_color_mix isn´t a shader mixer but just a color mixing tool.
so...how should one be able to combine these shaders:
misss_fast_skin_maya + misss_skin_specular
other than rendering 2 single passes each time and composite them in photoshop?
there must be a reasonable way to do this entirely in maya.
any ideas?
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doesn´t work either:
// Error: *Fatal* (mental ray) : mental ray encountered a fatal error. The system may have become unstable. Please save the scene and exit Maya. //
// Error: (Mayatomr.Output) : failed during mental ray rendering: mental ray abort //
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I did a blog post on this very same thing.
https://gennyx.blogspot.com/2009/06/l...al-ray_02.html
And I even went ahead and tried with the default color mix again, and it worked.
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06-02-2011
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Funny, I came across both articles while researching, but didn´t read through all the text!
I remember I had a good laugh tho ->
""....Initially, I tried just dragging and dropping it onto the geometry, the connection editor popped up, its not a material duh! So after that brain fart I tried figuring out..."
because thats exactly the same what happened to me in the beginning.
I will dig into your's and Jay´s explanations later this day. Thanks a lot for pointing to them again!
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