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IRAY Shader Presets Icon

ScavengerScavenger Posts: 2,674
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Most iray shaders use the same icon...the little weird magic 8 ball looking thing.

Where does that come from?  Is it a standard thing?

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  • LindseyLindsey Posts: 2,008

    It's included in the DS Default Resouces installer.  See attached pic..

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  • ScavengerScavenger Posts: 2,674

    Awesome! Thanks!

  • LindseyLindsey Posts: 2,008

    You're Welcome!

  • ScavengerScavenger Posts: 2,674

    And there's the song back in my head

     

  • TooncesToonces Posts: 919

    Yeh, but what the heck is it supposed to be? A webcam?

    Or some universal 'perfect shape' for demonstrating shader/lighting effects?

  • DestinysGardenDestinysGarden Posts: 2,553

    I don't know if it is the "perfect shape" but it is a "really good shape" with curves, round parts, flat parts, and edges so you can get a good idea of how your material would look on a variety of surfaces. It is just a material ball. It does what it says on the tin. Might be more fun to think of it as an incognito webcam, or the end bit of a Dalek's eye stalk.

    Toonces was awesome by the way.

  • Lissa_xyzLissa_xyz Posts: 6,116
    havsm said:

    Yeh, but what the heck is it supposed to be? A webcam?

    Or some universal 'perfect shape' for demonstrating shader/lighting effects?

    Shader widgets, commonly spheres, are just very common for texture artists to use when testing textures because it shows it on different edges, curves, and depending on the widget can give a decent sense of what the ambient occlusion will look like.

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