xray shader

[alaxsmeeth]

I am looking for a xray-shader for SI 3.8 (similar to the XSI-xray shader) or a technic to produce xray-Images.

Can anybody help?

Mikel

[sonne]

Quote from "The Hive's" website:

To get the electron microscopy look, set the ambient light to full white. Then place a point light in the scene and constrain it to the camera.
Set the point light's brightness to -1. This drains light away from the faces that are facing the camera and the ambient light illuminates the
faces that are perpendicular to the camera. In XSI and other packages this effect can be achieved with an Incidence shader.

Animal Logic used to have an x-ray shader for sale, but the last time I checked, it wasn't there. You could try sending them a mail?

Good luck,

Peter

[alaxsmeeth]

That works great.

Thank you, Peter.

Mikel

[atyss]

sonne,

Perhaps you could tell us what is the URL of The Hive's website?

Thanks
Bernard Lebel

[atyss]

Hello everyone I just found another way to simulate the microscopic aspect of organic tissus.

-Apply some material, with minimal specular amount.
-Then apply the Velvet material shader, wich can be found in Shader_LibFrabric. Leave the defaults settings.
-Still on the material editor, apply a Static Blur. The values I recommend are 0.5/0.5, just to give a small blurried contour.
-Finally, applying strong bump map is recommended. In my case I used a 3D texture.

The Velvet shader, at its default values, give the same results as an ambiant light of 1.0 combined with a spotlight of -1 (constrained to the camera), like sonne previously suggested.

I suppose that playing with the transparency and maybe with some volume shaders could give good results for radiography simulation too.

Bernard Lebel