Contents
Visualizer
Beauty
- Hatching Final
- Hatching Blend
Hatching On Color - Ignore albedo color for the base color, use this color on all objects
- Hatch On Color -
- Hatch On Background - Use background color or texture for object albedo color. The texture will swim if movement.
Add Spec - Add specular contribution to hatching
Hatching Camera Range -
- Diffuse
- Diffuse Luminance
- Diffuse Energy
Triplanar Test Colors
Signal AOV
Name of a color AOV to use for the signal to hatching. Typically diffuse can put any light AOV here. This AOV has to be set up in Maya/Katana/Houdini or DisplayFilter will exit.
Hatch Color From
Select which AOV to determine the coloring of the hatching
Background Color
Background color outside of alpha
Background Tex
Provide BG texture, if blank uses BG Color
Light Mask Switch
Use light aov defined in signal_aov_string above as a mask
NPR Mix
Mixer between the beauty and NPR render
Cam Dist Z Min
Linstep Min on Z (blue channel from lineNZ)
Cam Dist Z Max
Linstep Max on Z (blue channel from lineNZ)
Remap Spline Swatch Select to use the Ramp spline below
Hatching Gamma
Gamma (Contrast)
ROYGBVT Test Colors
Replace tex1-tex8 with RED, ORANGE, YELLOW, GREEN, BLUE, INDIGO, VIOLET, TURQUOISE for previewing blending
Blending Mode
Select between Mix and Weighted blending.
Blend Black Darkest
After the darkest texture, tex8, add solid color black
Blending Hold
Hold texture full value
Blending Overlap
Overlap of the Bell Curve weighting function. 0.125 is minimum and blends 2 textures, higher values blend more up to 8 textures.
Projection
Triplanar AOV
Name of a color AOV to use for the triplanar blending of P. If set to "NPRPtriplanar": need to plug PxrManifold3d into LS_Pattern_NPR node to provide custom coordinate system. Can also be factory "P" "__Pref" "Pworld" if those AOVs are set up.
Triplanar Blending
A value of 0 has no blending, through to 1 for full blending.
Hatch Freq Mode
Higher numbers, higher frequency. For screen start at 1. For triplanar start at 0.005.
Progressive Tex Switch
Hatching Freq Mode
Hatch Tex Color Mix
Select a coordinated set of hatching textures from the predefined collection. Or specify the directory name of your own custom set (will be expanded as dirname/dirname-01.tex, etc). Or pick 8 individual textures separately.
Hatching Frequency
Higher numbers, higher frequency. For screen start at 1. For triplanar start at 0.005.
Texture Set
Select hatching from several presets