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Iray Materials for Old 3Delight products

Sky77Sky77 Posts: 820
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What is the process of converting materials / using Iray features for older products.  For example, I used a very old freebie, Blowing Leaves, to create embers in a recent render (https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/505596/3d-art-freebie-challenge-july-2021-wild-wild-west-main-thread-only/p4).   (sorry I don't remember how to link to the exact post... if there is a way, please let me know that as well!  laugh)

Anyway, the Blowing leaves product since it was pre-Iray, does not have a light emmission option on the surfaces tab so I could not get it to glow in the iray render as the flames do.  How do I go about adding Iray materials / slider options?

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  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,754

    Simplist way is just select that material zone and apply the base iray uber shader. Then you might have to tweak the material settings for best look. there are a couple of converters in the store, but i don't use any of them.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,842

    DS will apply the Iray Uber base at render time, so unless you are going to adjust settings there is no real reason to do it manually.

  • Sky77Sky77 Posts: 820

    Perfect!  Thank you both.  

  • fred9803fred9803 Posts: 1,564
    edited July 2021

    Richard is right but you will notice when applying the uber shader glossiness comes in at 100% which is usually not desirable for many things you don't want shiny, like clothing etc. It's easy to fix though.

    I suppose many people, like me, have saved a kind of neutral uber shader preset as a strating point for clohng, toweling etc. which you can add textures to later.

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  • Sky77Sky77 Posts: 820

    Nice tip.  I will have to do that too.  Thanks!

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