XRay texture shader for mental ray® for 3ds max®

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3DSMax shader

Tutorial :

Set the .mi file in the directory 3dsmax7or8 \ mentalray \ shaders_autoload \ include
And the .dll in : 3dsmax7or8 \ mentalray \ shaders_autoload \ shaders

The directories are indentical for Max 7 and 8.

Set mental ray® as the default render engine.

Now open the material editor and click on Standard (left arrow) and choose a mental ray® material (right arrow).

Your material editor becomes now :

Click on the button on the right of Surface and choose dl3d_xraytexture (DL3D) like this :

The parameters are :

- XRay color : diffuse color of the transparent object
- Power : The higher is the power, the less transprent is the object (except with invers falloff parameters checked)
- Inverse_falloff : inverse the fall off parameter, the transparency starts from the center instead of the edges (and the contrary)
- Ks : coefficient for specular color
- roughness : coefficient to set the roughness of the surface for specular reflexions (the highest is the roughness the more centered is the specular reflexion)
- specularcol : specular color
- mode : integer that can be 0, 1 or 2, it is used to filter the lights used for rendering. (0 = use all ights, 1 = use only lights specified in the following array, 2 = use all lights but those mentionned in the following array)
- array : array of lights if mode is set to 1 or 2.

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