Iray shaders for bones and skulls?

RawArt

barbult said:

 Rawn, what is the license for your shader?

 

 

Use it for your renders...do not redistribute

 

Rawn

IceDragonArt

Thank you both!  These are absolutley amazing.....

SpottedKitty

RawArt said:

Using the shaders on "Them bones" sets works best if you apply the original textures, then hold CTRL when applying the new shaders and choosing not to replace the original textures. (and make sure the tiling is set down to 1H and 1V)

I would have thought of that eventually...  <headdesk>

Sure you didn't also tweak any of the Surfaces settings? I had to turn the Translucency Color way down to a very dark yellow, and play with various Glossy dials, before the eye and nose sockets stopped glowing white and the bones started looking nice and grungy like the ones in your pic.

MEC4D

You Welcome everyone !

 

I played with Acid Melt , no post work

Skeletons and dog are Zbrush tools converted to DS .

RawArt

SpottedKitty said:

 

Sure you didn't also tweak any of the Surfaces settings? I had to turn the Translucency Color way down to a very dark yellow, and play with various Glossy dials, before the eye and nose sockets stopped glowing white and the bones started looking nice and grungy like the ones in your pic.

Nope...didn't tweak anything. I just applied it and rendered.

greymouser69

@http://www.daz3d.com/forums/profile/1906654/barbult Fantastic render!

@http://www.daz3d.com/forums/profile/10010/MEC4D the dogs made me think of Resident Evil movies, fantastic!

I was thinking about a geoshell with the Acid Melt shader and an opacity map with some kind of noise setting would be perfect for zombie renders...

 

Edit:  OK I fail at anchors in these forums :(

Ikyoto

MEC4D said:

DOWNLOAD 12 BONE SHADERS FOR IRAY ---------ONLY TODAY------  First come, first served

remember that it is part of my upcoming commercial product , please don't share the link outside this thread

License : you can use it in your personal commercial or hobby renders , this is not part of merchant resource product

How to use : Unzip the files and place inside your Daz Studio My Library , you will find the files under Shader Preset/MEC4D/Iray/

Apply the shader to your selected surface then under surface tab scale it up or down using Tiling to match your model proportions

The shaders are tiled and universal for all bones  

This part of product was not tested beside by me so if anything weird happen let me know ;) but should be all fine

I added soft bone plus red and white wax just in case you want to make some skull candles lol

Enjoy !

Your stuff makes me giggly happy. The Shaolin monj is an essential to me.

MEC4D

I just used Acid Melt on my full G2M zombie surface  , just little scale here and there with the Tile nothing else for the shader .. pretty gross I guess lol

greymouser69 said:

@http://www.daz3d.com/forums/profile/1906654/barbult Fantastic render!

@http://www.daz3d.com/forums/profile/10010/MEC4D the dogs made me think of Resident Evil movies, fantastic!

I was thinking about a geoshell with the Acid Melt shader and an opacity map with some kind of noise setting would be perfect for zombie renders...

 

Edit:  OK I fail at anchors in these forums :(

MEC4D

BTW for the head the Tile scale was H-1 V-1 and for the body H-2 V-2 on Genesis 2 you can adjust the shader by sliding vertical or horizontal offset to match better the seams area on the body

the shaders does not change Displacement channel so if your materials have displacement before you apply the shader it will be not change the setting 

barbult

MEC4D said:

BTW for the head the Tile scale was H-1 V-1 and for the body H-2 V-2 on Genesis 2 you can adjust the shader by sliding vertical or horizontal offset to match better the seams area on the body

the shaders does not change Displacement channel so if your materials have displacement before you apply the shader it will be not change the setting 

If the character's displacement map is based on the characters UV, won't the tiling have to be "undone" with the Image Editor?

MEC4D

That why I mentioned it in case you get different result ,

But I think you can adjust the scale for the displacement under image editor so for example you tiled the main shader by 2 and use -1 under image editor just for the displacement map, less work and it should reverse the main scale , good thinking Barbult

barbult said:

MEC4D said:

BTW for the head the Tile scale was H-1 V-1 and for the body H-2 V-2 on Genesis 2 you can adjust the shader by sliding vertical or horizontal offset to match better the seams area on the body

the shaders does not change Displacement channel so if your materials have displacement before you apply the shader it will be not change the setting 

If the character's displacement map is based on the characters UV, won't the tiling have to be "undone" with the Image Editor?

 

barbult

MEC4D said:

That why I mentioned it in case you get different result ,

But I think you can adjust the scale for the displacement under image editor so for example you tiled the main shader by 2 and use -1 under image editor just for the displacement map, less work and it should reverse the main scale , good thinking Barbult

barbult said:

MEC4D said:

BTW for the head the Tile scale was H-1 V-1 and for the body H-2 V-2 on Genesis 2 you can adjust the shader by sliding vertical or horizontal offset to match better the seams area on the body

the shaders does not change Displacement channel so if your materials have displacement before you apply the shader it will be not change the setting 

If the character's displacement map is based on the characters UV, won't the tiling have to be "undone" with the Image Editor?

 

If you use 2 for the main tiling, the appropriate setting for the Image Editor for other maps that shouldn't be tiled is 1/2 = 0.5. You  want the reciprocal of the tiling number in the Image Editor's Instances Tiling to offset it.

MEC4D

you are right Barbult I confused the % with Scale  yes 0.50 for image editor when the main tile is 2 it will take half value away from the main tile value

barbult said:

MEC4D said:

That why I mentioned it in case you get different result ,

But I think you can adjust the scale for the displacement under image editor so for example you tiled the main shader by 2 and use -1 under image editor just for the displacement map, less work and it should reverse the main scale , good thinking Barbult

barbult said:

MEC4D said:

BTW for the head the Tile scale was H-1 V-1 and for the body H-2 V-2 on Genesis 2 you can adjust the shader by sliding vertical or horizontal offset to match better the seams area on the body

the shaders does not change Displacement channel so if your materials have displacement before you apply the shader it will be not change the setting 

If the character's displacement map is based on the characters UV, won't the tiling have to be "undone" with the Image Editor?

 

If you use 2 for the main tiling, the appropriate setting for the Image Editor for other maps that shouldn't be tiled is 1/2 = 0.5. You  want the reciprocal of the tiling number in the Image Editor's Instances Tiling to offset it.

 

mjc1016

Dammit Jim! These bone shaders are the real McCoy.

Ikyoto

original and new.
 

jakiblue

@MEC4D, you have no idea how excited and thrilled I am that you have done these! I've been wanting good iray shaders for bones/skulls ever since I started doing iray - i could never even really find decent 3delight ones, and I have SO many skulls, bones, skeletons :) :)

Thank you thank you thank you THANK YOU a thousand times, and guaranteed I'll be buying your next iray shader pack that you release. I have volume 2 and the others on my wishlist, and am planning on getting those when I have hte money. 

MEC4D

You more than welcome ! at last I finished them faster than planned  lol 

Enjoy !

jakiblue said:

@MEC4D, you have no idea how excited and thrilled I am that you have done these! I've been wanting good iray shaders for bones/skulls ever since I started doing iray - i could never even really find decent 3delight ones, and I have SO many skulls, bones, skeletons :) :)

Thank you thank you thank you THANK YOU a thousand times, and guaranteed I'll be buying your next iray shader pack that you release. I have volume 2 and the others on my wishlist, and am planning on getting those when I have hte money. 

 

Knittingmommy

Thank you so much, Cath!!!  The shaders look great!

MEC4D

You welcome !  

Knittingmommy said:

Thank you so much, Cath!!!  The shaders look great!

 

Knittingmommy

RawArt said:

Here is a bone shader I can throw in here as well

http://rawart3d.deviantart.com/art/Iray-Bone-Shader-607569104

 

Rawn

Thanks, to you, too, RawArt.  I, actually, missed this the first time around until someone pointed it out to me. 

RawArt

Knittingmommy said:

RawArt said:

 

Thanks, to you, too, RawArt.  I, actually, missed this the first time around until someone pointed it out to me. 

 

 

You're welcome............it is easy to get  eclipsed here :P

Artini

Mec4D shader 002HBone 2000BC used on
http://www.daz3d.com/dragon-skeleton-articulate-vertebrae

Still trying to find the good light set to show them up.

Have tried http://www.daz3d.com/daz-studio-iray-hdr-outdoor-environments but details does not show up so much.

Artini

With the brighter shader (009HBone Soft Bone), the light is sufficient to see details.

Artini

Cath's shader 004HBone 1000AD applied to the teeth of http://www.daz3d.com/gargoyle-hound

MEC4D

This is not bad , I see the Uvs of the model are not the best  so you losing a lot of details plus my gaussian filter was set on 0.95 for the previews with 1,50 everything looks blurry unless you zoom in

I also use a plane on the side to reflect  the light and make the bones slightly translucent ( no emitter just plain white plane on the side )

Artini said:

Mec4D shader 002HBone 2000BC used on
http://www.daz3d.com/dragon-skeleton-articulate-vertebrae

Still trying to find the good light set to show them up.

Have tried http://www.daz3d.com/daz-studio-iray-hdr-outdoor-environments but details does not show up so much.

 

MEC4D

this one was to use on a small bones like in the nose or partial chest bones to compliment the bleached bones also I see now the model is half hard edge modeling not really for translucent shaders but looking kind of like ambient occlusion presentation , try maybe auto head lamp for the darker bones together with your HDRI 

Artini said:

With the brighter shader (009HBone Soft Bone), the light is sufficient to see details.

 

MEC4D

You just fall in like a cherry in a compote   nice shader , reminds me of a not too old bones they usually find in a sand   , they have this specific sandy color with some cracks when sand absorb everything nasty from them , it is nice of you to share !

RawArt said:

Knittingmommy said:

RawArt said:

 

Thanks, to you, too, RawArt.  I, actually, missed this the first time around until someone pointed it out to me. 

 

 

You're welcome............it is easy to get  eclipsed here :P

 

Artini

Thanks for the tips, Cath. I put a white plane on the side and switched on the headlamp on the camera and I like the render more.

Used 002HBone 2000BC shader.

MEC4D

I know what is going on, some bones are perfect other flat, I am guessing you copy and  paste the shader to other bones ? you should not  copy and paste shaders to other materials as not always it will transfer all values and settings, some bones does not have the same level  on normal maps for that reason it looks flat with less details , other bones  looking just right or maybe the UVs was bigger than on other bones 

the render improved as well and the light match the beachy look now , some HDRI don''t have enough dynamics in the ambient light beside the sun so they need extra boost with the planes including very diffused Sun sky

Artini

The skeleton has only one material available and I applied the shader to it. There are no separate materials for the other bones.