Just a quick note to say that the Texture Robot script for Maya has moved up the chain to version 1.1.0. I'm getting closer to implementing all of the features I'd originally planned for it, including support for various renderers (Arnold, Vray) via the aiStandard material and the Vray Mtl. There's also support for Maya's blinn, which is useful in a viewport 2.0 viewport environment as you're able to display more types of texture map (including bump and specular) than the other materials. I've been using it a lot lately for quick previews and it works great. Of course, it's nothing compared to what you can do with the new Dx11 shader, which I'll hopefully get around to doing something about for games people in a later version.
There's also been a few added texture slots- Transparency, Cutout Opacity, and Emissive (self illumination/incandescence). I think this covers the most widely used types of texture map that people regularly use. There's SSS to deal with, but again, that's for the future, hopefully not to distant.
The last thing I want to mention is the added 'tooltip' descriptions as you hover over parts of the UI. Most of them just describe the thing itself (browse Texture Directory icon for instance), but if you hover over the texture slot labels on the left hand side, you will get a little message showing you where the texture slot connects into the various shader's parameters. For eg, hovering over the 'Spec Gloss' label will bring up the following:
So this is just a way to understand the different terminology across shaders, how the parameters relate to each other and hopefully it can help to clear up any confusion about where each texture slot is going. I used pretty standard names for each slot (specular instead of reflection, as I don't think anybody refers to a specular map as a reflection map, but I could be dead wrong) but just in case, these tooltips are there.
Next feature I'll be working on is a button to save out A custom setup within TR. That means, if you don't like the suffix 'd' for diffuse, but prefer 'c' for colour or something else, you can save your custom suffixes and next time you run the script, it will load your preferences. It should also save out the shader type, file extensions and the other various options. That would be pretty handy I think.
You can get the latest version of Texture Robot here.
Full Changelog.
There's also been a few added texture slots- Transparency, Cutout Opacity, and Emissive (self illumination/incandescence). I think this covers the most widely used types of texture map that people regularly use. There's SSS to deal with, but again, that's for the future, hopefully not to distant.
The last thing I want to mention is the added 'tooltip' descriptions as you hover over parts of the UI. Most of them just describe the thing itself (browse Texture Directory icon for instance), but if you hover over the texture slot labels on the left hand side, you will get a little message showing you where the texture slot connects into the various shader's parameters. For eg, hovering over the 'Spec Gloss' label will bring up the following:
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| TR- now with tooltips. Goody |
So this is just a way to understand the different terminology across shaders, how the parameters relate to each other and hopefully it can help to clear up any confusion about where each texture slot is going. I used pretty standard names for each slot (specular instead of reflection, as I don't think anybody refers to a specular map as a reflection map, but I could be dead wrong) but just in case, these tooltips are there.
Next feature I'll be working on is a button to save out A custom setup within TR. That means, if you don't like the suffix 'd' for diffuse, but prefer 'c' for colour or something else, you can save your custom suffixes and next time you run the script, it will load your preferences. It should also save out the shader type, file extensions and the other various options. That would be pretty handy I think.
You can get the latest version of Texture Robot here.
Full Changelog.
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