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| ====== Transmission Maps ====== | ====== Transmission Maps ====== | ||
| - | + | Designed to be used as omni-directional thickness map (with an attenuation ramp) for semi-translucent materials, Transmission are generated in much the same way as our high quality [[ambient_occlusion_maps_knald|Ambient Occlusion]] solution & it’s just as fast. Simply load a mesh into Knald (multi-million polygonal meshes are supported), check a box and then watch Knald do its magic. | |
| - | Transmission Maps | + | |
| + | After only a couple of seconds you will be greeted by your new and beautiful texture which is viewable with real-time translucency in the 3d preview window. | ||
| - | Designed to be used as omni-directional thickness map (with an attenuation ramp) for semi-translucent materials, Transmission are generated in much the same way as our high quality Mesh AO solution. & it’s just as fast. Simply load a mesh into Knald (multi-million polygonal meshes are supported), check a box and then watch Knald do its magic. | + | You can also generate Ambient Occlusion from high to low polygonal meshes via [[the_baker_knald|The Baker]]. |
| - | After only a couple of seconds you will be greeted by your new and beautiful texture which is viewable with real-time translucency in the 3d preview window. | + | [{{https://s3.amazonaws.com/docs.knaldtech.com/docuwiki/transmission_hunter.jpg?1075|Transmission maps controlling the translucency of a mesh within the 3D Preview window((Art courtesy of Warren Boonzaaier http://www.artboonz.com/))}}] |
| - | [{{:transmission_hunter.jpg?1075|Transmission maps controlling the translucency of a mesh within the 3D Preview window}}] | + | ===== The Transmission Group's Settings ===== |
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| - | Art courtesy of Warren Boonzaaier | ||
| - | + | [{{https://s3.amazonaws.com/docs.knaldtech.com/docuwiki/transmission_knald.png?nolink|Transmission Settings}}] | |
| - | Transmission settings | ||
| - | + | **Activate:** This check box is a toggle to enable and disable Transmission via an imported mesh. A mesh must be loaded in the 3d Preview to use this feature. | |
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| + | **Attenuation:** A toggle between the Ramp Linear and Exponential Decay attenuation types. | ||
| - | Activate: This check box is a toggle to enable and disable Transmission via an imported mesh. A mesh must be loaded in the 3d Preview to use this feature. | + | **Scale:** Changes the scale of the distances before mapping it to a transmission value. |
| - | Attenuation: A toggle between the Ramp Linear and Exponential Decay attenuation types. | + | **Ramp:** Ramps the light and dark values within the Transmission map based upon the sliders value.\\ \\ \\ \\ |
| - | Scale: Changes the scale of the distances before mapping it to a transmission value. | ||
| - | Ramp:Ramps the light and dark values within the Transmission map based upon the sliders value. | ||
| - | Rays: This slider is used to determine the number of samples in a discrete evaluation of the integral across the half sphere for diffuse outgoing radiance with a constant radiance field, with a minimum of 256 and maximum of 8192 rays being available. A higher number or rays will increase the quality of the Transmission at the cost of speed. We do not recommend going below a value of 512 rays as this can cause banding to appear in the map. A value of 1024-2048 or above should be perfect for production. | + | **Rays:** This slider is used to determine the number of samples in a discrete evaluation of the integral across the half sphere for diffuse outgoing radiance with a constant radiance field, with a minimum of 256 and maximum of 8192 rays being available. |
| + | * A higher number or rays will increase the quality of the Transmission at the cost of speed. | ||
| + | * We do not recommend going below a value of 512 rays as this can cause banding to appear in the map. | ||
| + | * A value of 1024-2048 or above should be perfect for production. | ||
| - | Bias:A bias value based upon mesh density. A value of 10 should be good for most situations. | + | **Bias:** A bias value based upon mesh density. A value of 10 should be good for most situations. |
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| - | [{{:transmission_capped_new.jpg?900|An open mesh capped pre-render((Art courtesy of Dan Roarty http://www.danroarty.com/))}}] | + | [{{https://s3.amazonaws.com/docs.knaldtech.com/docuwiki/transmission_capped_new.jpg?1075|An open mesh capped pre-render((Art courtesy of Dan Roarty http://www.danroarty.com/))}}] |
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