I am a cg student currently learning Houdini.
How can I include a illuminance loop in a surface shader?

because I am trying to make a simple translucent shader (doubleSide) in Vex builder. But the illuminance loop never work even I connected the P, N, and angles to the loop.

Any help will be appreciated!

well, post from 2005 but who knows, maybe he still lives

Hi,

Did you found solution for you problem ? I'm also trying to build translucent doubleSided material with a help of illuminanceLoop.

Would this be of any help:

http://vimeo.com/7843080 [vimeo.com]

Peter Quint talks about Illuminance loops there…

Hey Jim,

Yeah, I'v seen this. Now I'm going thru C# tutorials from Buzz so didn't have time to fight with this now.

Mario Marengo in this http://forums.odforce.net/index.php?/topic/10664-translucent-ticket/page__p__68792&#entry68792 [forums.odforce.net] topic ben so kind and made example shader for me that don't need illuminace.

And mrice in this http://forums.odforce.net/index.php?/topic/10683-fighting-with-illuminanceloop/page__p__68858&#entry68858 [forums.odforce.net] topic helped me to fight with my problem with illuminance.


Anyway, thanks for interest.