{"id":75,"date":"2012-04-25T22:34:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T22:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tier7.net\/blog\/?p=75"},"modified":"2012-12-28T14:49:09","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T14:49:09","slug":"mental-ray-light-scattering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tier7.net\/blog\/2012\/04\/mental-ray-light-scattering\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Ray &#8211; Light Scattering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While tweaking shaders, textures and bump maps for tree bark and ivy, I set to create a &#8216;depth&#8217; to the textures; for light to enter, bounce around inside, giving a sense of depth to the surface. However, not entirely successul, I did create an interesting example as to the difference of &#8216;light scattering&#8217; on and off with this Ivy texture.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"3d ivy on a tree\" src=\"http:\/\/tier7.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/plant-lightscatter-e1356705848281.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<dl class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" id=\"attachment_76\" style=\"width: 610px;\">\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">\n<h6>Left: Maya Viewport. Center: Light Scatter Enabled, Right: Light Scatter Disabled.<\/h6>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While tweaking shaders, textures and bump maps for tree bark and ivy, I set to create a &#8216;depth&#8217; to the textures; for light to enter, bounce around inside, giving a sense of depth to the surface. However, not entirely successul, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tier7.net\/blog\/2012\/04\/mental-ray-light-scattering\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,24,21,23],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-3d","tag-lighting","tag-maya","tag-texturing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/tier7.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/plant-lightscatter-e1356705848281.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tier7.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tier7.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tier7.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tier7.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tier7.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tier7.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112,"href":"https:\/\/tier7.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tier7.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tier7.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tier7.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tier7.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}