shaderMeister User Manual - Version 1.0
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1. This allows you to daisy chain and combine multiple filter nodes The boolean operations are Logic AND Filter If both the Logic input and the Filter result are the same then the Logic output will be true and the new inputs will be passed through The AND Operation returns true if both inputs have the same value Logic Input Filter Result True True True True False False False True False False False True Logic OR Filter The OR Operation returns true if either of the inputs is true 30 March 2009 Version 1 0 Page 9 shaderMeister User Manual User Interface Logic Input Filter Result True True True True False True False True True False False False Logic XOR Filter The XOR Operation returns true only if the inputs have different values Logic Input Filter Result True True False True False True False True True False False False Invert Filter Inverts the logic of the filter Filter by You can filter the surface by a number of criteria nare Surface Surface Item This filters by the surface name Object Weight Map Value m Item Comment This filters by the item name as displayed in LightWave 3D This also includes layer names Object This filters by the object name as stored on disk the lwo Weight Map Value This filters by weight maps Item Comment This option allows you to filter by item comments This is extremely handy as item comments are saved within the sc2. Licensee with updates bug fixes builds or error corrections collectively Software Updates If db amp w Bornemann und Wolf GbR at its sole option supplies Software Updates to Licensee the Updates will be considered part of Licensed Software and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement 6 3 The Licensee acknowledges that db amp w Bornemann und Wolf GbR shall have the right in its sole discretion and without incurring any liability to modify the Licensed Software or discontinue its use or distribution at any time and for any reason 7 0 TERM AND TERMINATION OF AGREEMENT This Agreement will commence on the date on which Licensee downloads Licensed Software the Effective Date and will remain in force until terminated 7 1 Licensee might terminate the license at any time by removing the Software from the computer and destroying the original Software and all copies 7 2 Upon termination or expiration of this Agreement Licensee must cease use of and destroy the Licensed Software any records or copies thereof and any related materials and provide to db amp w Bornemann und Wolf GbR a written statement certifying that Licensee has complied with the foregoing obligations within thirty 30 days 7 3 This license will automatically terminate if the licensee breaches any of the terms or conditions set out in this license agreement 7 4 Rights and obligations under this Agreement which by their nature should survive shall remai
3. diffuse buffer specular buffer reflection buffer refraction buffer as well as the material are unfortunately applied after the shaderMeister shader plugin 30 March 2009 Version 1 0 Page 4 shaderMeister User Manual shaderMeister Master Handler Plugin shaderMeister Master Handler Plugin This plugin is the core of shaderMeister Eck i ED a 0 It manages a global nodal surfacing graph that overrides LightWave s native surface via the Shader Plugin V1 0 Wins Mar 17 2009 The global surfacing graph is loaded and saved via the master handler and thus scene specific This allows you to easily create different scenes with different global shading overrides The Master Handler Plugin supports Scene Editing presets to facilitate this and allow you to create a library of overrides User Interface Presets Using the Presets pop up you can apply any of your presets save your current settings as a preset or delete existing presets shaderMeister has its own system to manage presets The main reason for developing a custom system was to differentiate between user global and project content directory specific settings user presets are stored in the same directory where your LightWave3D configuration files are stored in a subdirectory called SimplePresets global presets are stored in the installation directory of LightWave3D on Windows on OSX UB they are stored in Library Preferences LightWa
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5. 17 2003 No other settings are saved with the Shader Plugin it is just used if the shaderMeister Master Handler is present in the scene Nodal Graph This button opens the global shading graph from any instance of the shaderMeister Shader Plugin for your convenience The global shading graph is still only saved with the Master Handler plugin 30 March 2009 Version 1 0 Page 8 shaderMeister User Manual Filter Node Filter Node 30 shaderMeister Global Surface Overrid x v1 0 wins Mar 17 2003 The Filter Node allows you to filter the currently shaded spot by e Surface name e Item name e Object name as stored on disk as a lwo e Weight Map Value e Item Comment These are filtered using their names only with the exception of the Weight Map option You can use wildcards to let the filter match more than one surface item object User Interface PassThrough This button completely disables the node The respective node inputs will be passed through to the outputs without change If there is nothing connected to the inputs the outputs will be either O or black depending on the output type Logic Operation This setting allows you to modify the output of the Filter Node with the output of another Filter or Boolean node The result of a boolean operation on the Logic input and the result of the filtering operation within the node will be used to determine the outputs of the Filter node
6. andard ambient occlusion pass to use in compositing Global Ambient Occlusion This preset mixes an ambient occlusion shader with all existing surfaces Please note that any nodal surfaces will override this preset Lit Ambient Occlusion Pass This preset is a variation of standard Ambient Occlusion that takes normal j lighting into account E Lit areas are less affected by ambient occlusion This is designed to be used in compositing Courtesy of Guillaume Wyatt 30 March 2009 Version 1 0 Page 16 shaderMeister User Manual Examples Global Lit Ambient Occlusion This preset is a variation of standard Ambient Occlusion that takes normal lighting into account This preset mixes the lit occlusion with the existing surfaces Courtesy of Guillaume Wyatt Normal Pass This renders an image where the surface normals are encoded in the RGB channels Courtesy of Guillaume Wyatt Object Space Normal Pass This renders an image where the surface normals in object space are encoded in the RGB channels Courtesy of Guillaume Wyatt RGBMatte This preset assigns either red green or blue to the surfaces This allows as compositing application to use a single RGB image as a matte for three different selections In a way this is like three alpha channels combined into a single image Courtesy of Guillaume Wyatt 30 March 2009 Version 1 0 Page 17 shaderMeister User Manual Example
7. ble We also thank the LightWave community and the members of the LightWave Plugin Developers mailing list especially Marvin Landis and Ernie Wright for their insight into the more obscure depths of the LightWave SDK db amp w Bornemann und Wolf GbR Seyfferstr 34 70197 Stuttgart Germany www db w com info db w com Table of Contents Introduction 1 COM ID IV AME ee ee AEE E Tee ae Eee 1 gz i a ee re ernennen 1 setting up shaderMeister 2 IS LA LA OM see E E E rol nenn ee einen 2 REGIE ITANION nee een reinen vcs rte nennen E ERER erinnere 3 included Mi ad 0 o 8 MEE 3 What shaderMeister does and how it does it 4 shaderMeister Master Handler Plugin 5 USER WENIGE een er ne eine ne een 5 Node Input Connections lsessssssssssssssssssenn enne n ene nnne nnnnne rennes se nni sare nnne nnns T shaderMeister Shader Plugin 8 Weezer RTT E E 8 Filter Node 9 Sca NN ORE Um 9 Node HOUR COMME CHOI TOO mm 12 Node Outb t COMMS CH ONS seiis ia S 12 Boolean Node 13 i a i e RTT 13 Nodes IND UEC CONNECTIONS aessiacebusemmbi ae ne nee EU II METRI RE ee 14 Node Output COhhecoliSaasresptubnxucexxvartaluse E rada PERI een 14 eurface Exposure Node 15 Node Output ConrnecHOL S xvisesesvswaqunkRss nn anne a o i xcd iaa 15 NEIWOIK Rendering ee ee een 19 Known Limitations vi shaderMeister User Manual Introduction Intr
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9. derMeister Nodal Graph hal Index rarisiLicericg a This allows you to modify existing surfaces as opposed to just replacing Colour Highlights o them Colour Filter o The outputs correspond to the matching channels in the layered surface Diffuse sharpness editor and include the effects of layers and envelopes on the surface Additive Transparency Th Baer f h bv the shad udin ih Reflection Blurring o ese are basically the surface channel as seen by the shader plugin the online effects of nodal surfacing are ignored Node Output Connections Colour Diffuse Luminosity Specular Reflection Transparency Refraction Index Translucency Colour Highlights Colour Filter Diffuse Sharpness Additive Transparency Reflection Blurring Refraction Blurring These outputs correspond to the surface properties in the surface editor Changes due to nodal surfacing are not available due to SDK limitations 30 March 2009 Version 1 0 Page 15 shaderMeister User Manual Examples Examples We ve collected a few simple examples do give an idea of the possibilities that shaderMeister allows for These are available as Content Presets in the shaderMeister Sample scene which is included with the plugin Just load the sample scene open shaderMeister select any of the Content Presets and press F9 to render The image on the right is the sample scene without shaderMeister Ambient Occlusion Pass This preset just renders a st
10. e There are two reasons to do so 1 Speed up rendering 2 The shading and materials applied through surface nodes are applied after the shader has been evaluated This overwrites the changes made due to shaderMaster Disabling Surface Nodes allows shaderMeister to thus overwrite nodal materials and shaders Scene Editing This option allows for simple batch operations on the current objects Add All Shaders This adds the shaderMeister shader plugin to all surfaces that don t have it applied yet The Surface Editor should be set to Edit by Object prior to adding all shaders Surface Editor Remove All Shaders r This removes the shaderMeister shader plugin from all surfaces Unfortunately this will crash if surfaces contain Surface Mame shaders in addition to the shaderMeister shader This is a bug in LightWave 3D 9 3 1 to 9 6 and has been reported to NewTek The Surface Editor should be set to Edit by Object prior to adding all shaders 30 March 2009 Version 1 0 Page 6 shaderMeister User Manual Node Input Connections Node Input Connections Here is a description of the inputs available in the node graph Colour Luminosity Diffuse Specular Glossiness Reflection Transparency Refraction Index Translucency These inputs correspond to the shading properties as defined in the surface editor They may be overridden by surface nodes Normal This overrides the following bump i
11. eister User Manual Version 1 0 02009 by db amp w Bornemann und Wolf GbR Software License and Limited Warranty Agreement PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE DOWNLOADING INSTALLING OR USING THIS SOFTWARE THIS SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT IS A LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU EITHER AN INDIVIDUAL OR IF PUR CHASED OR OTHERWISE ACQUIRED BY OR FOR AN ENTITY AN ENTITY AND DB amp W BORNEMANN UND WOLF GBR BY CLICKING THE ACCEPT BUTTON OPENING THE PACKAGE DOWLOADING INSTALLING OR OTHERWISE USING THIS SOFTWARE YOU AGREE TO BECOME BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE CLICK THE DO NOT ACCEPT BUTTON AND DO NOT DOWNLOAD INSTALL OR USE THIS SOFTWARE OTHERWISE 1 0 DEFINITIONS Licensee means you the User who agrees to all of the terms set forth in this Software License and Warranty Agreement by downloading installing or using this software Licensed Software shall mean the shaderMeister plug in for LightWave 3D and documentation for shaderMeister Software shall mean the shaderMeister plug in for LightWave 3D and documentation for shaderMeister 2 0 OWNERSHIP OF THE SOFTWARE The Licensee acknowledges and agrees that all of the computer programs and associated documentation are owned exclusively by db amp w Bornemann und Wolf GbR You agree that the price paid by you for the Software is a license fee granting you only rights set forth in this License Agreement 3 0 RESTRICTED LICENSE sha
12. ene file Include Children only if filter by Item is active This will include the selected item as well as its children to the filter This allows you to filter a group of items by only matching the parent item 30 March 2009 Version 1 0 Page 10 shaderMeister User Manual User Interface Weight Map only if filter by Weight Map fr shaderMeister Global Surface Overrid x This allows you to select the weight map E v1 0 win32 used by the filter Mar 17 2009 Weight Threshold only if filter by Weight Map Any weight map value above and including this threshold will be considered as being filtered anything below will be considered as not being filtered If the weight map is not applied at all it will also be considered as not being filtered Filter Supported wildcards Matches any amount of characters or none Matches any single character Allows you to concatenate multiple filters Examples Let s assume we have the following surface names to filter Filter green greenish almost green blue blueish almost blue blue01 blue02 blue3 green Y Y v x x x x x x ish x v x x v x x x x blue0 x x x x x x v v x blue x x x x v x v v v blue green v v x v v x v v v 30 March 2009 Version 1 0 Page 11 shaderMeister User Manual User Interface Pick Pick Surface This button opens a new window that allows you to selec
13. er are included as a DMG Disk Image Double click on the icon to mount the disk image 5 items Zero KB available db amp w finest plugins It also includes a folder of sample content as shown in the examples section of this manual n shaderMeister plug Install app in Universal Binary Drop the plugin onto the Install Application You can simply drop the ER m A shaderMeister plugin icon onto the Install K aid application to install it x The plugin will either be copied to RPT ee SampleContent Readme rtf V1 0 pdf Current User installation option Library ShaderMeister y Application Support LightWave3D Plugins Or All Users installation option Library Application Support LightWave3D Plugins In both cases LightWave 3D 9 6 will automatically pick up the plugins once you launch it You are of course free to copy the plugin file to another location and add it manually The download contains ZIP compressed files for all platforms supported by shaderMeister Extract the appropriate ZIP file for your platform The shaderMeister p file can be copied to any directory where you keep your plugins We recommend using a manually created plugin directory to separate third party plugins from plugins shipped with LightWave 3D This will simplify upgrades of LightWave 3D Now use the Edit Plug ins panel alt F11 of the Add Plugins menu item to add the plugin file shaderMeister p to Ligh
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18. nput allowing you to set the normal for the current surface directly as opposed to using a bump value Bump Colour Highlights Colour Filter Diffuse Sharpness Additive Transparency Reflection Blurring Refraction Blurring These inputs correspond to the shading properties as defined in the surface editor They may be overridden by surface nodes Override This input is special and modifies how the following inputs behave It has been designed to work in conjunction with the Logic output of the Filter Node or the Logic Node explained later in this manual If nothing is connected to Override then the following inputs will behave as expected If Override is connected and the value that is passed on to it is 0 the following inputs will be completely ignored effectively displaying the original surface If Override is connected and a value other than O then the following inputs will be active amp Colour e Luminosity o Diffuse o Specular o Glossiness o Reflection Transparency o Retraction Index eG Translucency Normal Bump Colour Highlights Colour Filter e Diffuse Sharpness o Additive Transparency o Reflection Blurring Retraction Blurring o Overnde Diffuse Shading Specular Shading Reflection Shading Retraction Shading Material Colour Override Diffuse Shading Specular Shading Reflection Shading Refraction Shading These inputs correspond to the respective inp
19. oduction Compatibility shaderMeister is compatible with LightWave3D 9 3 up to LightWave 3D 9 6 It currently runs with the Windows 32bit Windows 64bit and Mac OSX versions of LightWave It has been tested with Windows 2000 the 32bit and 64bit versions of Windows XP as well as Mac OSX This is why you will see screen shots of both the OSX and the Windows port in this manual Please visit http shadermeister db w com for more up to date information Features shaderMeister has been thoroughly tested in production by us and our trusty beta testers The main features of shaderMeister are e Advanced Presets system free point upgrades free support free beer 1 O k so we re still joking about the beer 30 March 2009 Version 1 0 Page 1 shaderMeister User Manual Setting up shaderMeister Setting up shaderMeister Installation The download contains ZIP compressed files for all platforms supported by exrTrader Extract the appropriate ZIP file for your platform Windows 32 bit 64 bit The shaderMeister p file can be copied to any directory where you keep your plugins We recommend using a manually created plugin directory to separate third party plugins from plugins shipped with LightWave 3D This will simplify upgrades of LightWave 3D Now use the Edit Plug ins panel alt F11 of the Add Plugins menu item to add the plugin file shaderMeister p to LightWave 3D Mac OS X UB The OS X versions of exrTrad
20. r Depending on the result of the filter this will either be the baseScalar or the newScalar input Material Depending on the results of the filter this will either be the baseMaterial of the newMaterial input 30 March 2009 Version 1 0 Page 12 shaderMeister User Manual Boolean Node Boolean Node wf shaderMeister Global Surface Overrid O A This node allows you to combine two V1 0 Pin logical values using Boolean logic a Mar 17 2009 Using the Logic output of the Filter Node this allows you to design elaborate selections to narrow down the parts of a scene that shaderMeister affects Boolean logic deals with elements that can only have two values true or false 1 or O respectively User Interface Input A This button allows you to set Input A to either True active or False not active if nothing is connected to the respective input Input B This button allows you to set Input B to either True active or False not active if nothing is connected to the respective input Operation The Boolean operations are best explained with logic tables as there is a difference to the usage of the words in English A and B The AND Operation returns true if both inputs have the same value Input A Input B Result True True True True False False False True False False False True Aor B The OR Operation returns true if either of the inputs is true Input A Input B Result True True True True Fal
21. s RGBMatte using an Item Hierarchy This is the same as the RGB Matte in this case the parent Null objects are selected for the Matte in the Filter Nodes with the Include Children option selected RGBMatte using Comments This is another variant of the RGB Matte this time using Item Comments to filter the surfaces 30 March 2009 Version 1 0 Page 18 shaderMeister User Manual Appendices Appendices Network Rendering shaderMeister is ScreamerNet compatible and allows for network renders You can install the plugin on any render node and it will render as expected It has been tested with a variety of third party render controllers including Butterfly NetRender and Spider Known Limitations Incompatible with FPrime Due to LightWave 3D SDK limitations FPrime can t render shaders As these are crucial for shaderMeister FPrime isn t able to render any modifications due to shaderMeister Incompatible with HDInstance For the same reason as the FPrime incompatibility shaderMeister won t be visible on items that are rendered by HDInstance 30 March 2009 Version 1 0 Page 19
22. s e shaderMeister both a Surface Shader and a Master Handler e shaderMeister generic can be assigned to a shortcut or added as a menu item Filter Node e Logic Node e Surface Exposure Node 2 Our key generator needs some sleep every now and then 30 March 2009 Version 1 0 Page 3 shaderMeister User Manual What shaderMeister does and how it does it What shaderMeister does and how it does it Originally Posted by Exper Parameter 1 use it to change the value of Parameter 1 shaderMeister allows you to override the shading of surface on a scene by scene basis This is accomplished by a shader plugin that needs to be applied to all surfaces that should be overridden by shaderMeister When rendering the shader plugin will detect if a shaderMeister global shading network is present and then evaluate it The shaderMeister global shading network itself is saved with the scene A master handler plugin manages it Once you have applied the shader to all surfaces in your current scene which only needs to happen once and is automated by shaderMeister you can thus override the surfacing on a scene by scene basis Unfortunately due to the nature of the LightWave 3D shading systems things aren t as simple as they seem to be Since shaderMeister is applied as a shader it has limited access to some of the nodal shading information and can also only override some of the nodal data The nodal shading buffers
23. se True False True True False False False 30 March 2009 Version 1 0 Page 13 shaderMeister User Manual User Interface A xor B The XOR Operation returns true only if the inputs have different values Input A Input B Result True True False True False True False True True False False False Invert As expected this inverts the result of the Boolean operation Node Input Connections A This is the first parameter of the Boolean operation A value of O corresponds to false any other value is true B This is the second parameter of the Boolean operation A value of 0 corresponds to false any other value is true Invert This inverts the result of the boolean operation False turn to true true to false Node Output Connections Out This is the result of the boolean operation A true value will be exposed as 1 false as O 30 March 2009 Version 1 0 Page 14 shaderMeister User Manual Surface Exposure Node Surface Exposure Node Please Note Expose Surface 1 The Surface Exposure Node should only be added to shaderMeister Colour E nodal Surface Graphs applied using the Master Handler plugin Diffuse O It will fail to produce any meaningful output in any other Node Editor N z within LightWave 3D Bl Ialassiniess o It is still very useful though Reflection o The Surface Exposure Node makes the shading properties and channels of Transparency the currently shaded surface available in the sha
24. t a Surface Item or Object The selection will either Replace the current Filter or Append to it including the insertion of a character to concatenate it to the existing Filter Node Input Connections Logic This integer input allows you to daisy chain multiple Filter or Boolean nodes It will be combined with the result of the filter using the Logic Operation baseVector baseColour baseScalar base Material These inputs will be passed through to the respective outputs if the filter is not true NewVector newColour newScalar newMaterial These inputs will be passed through to the respective outputs if the filter Logic Logic is true amp baseVector Vector amp baszeLolaur Colour e Invert o baseScalar Scalar o EE l a l on iO baseMateral Material This integer input will invert the result of the filter if it is set to anything SUE but 0 4 newlColour o newScalar Node Output Connections newM aterial Invert Logic This output is 1 of the result of the filter and the Logic Operation on the Logic input result in a true Otherwise it is O This allows you to daisy chain the Filter node with other filter nodes or Boolean Logic nodes to create complex ex inclusions Vector Depending on the result of the filter this will either be the baseVector or the newVector input Colour Depending on the result of the filter this will either be the baseColour or the newColour input Scala
25. tWave 3D To be able to use shaderMeister you will need to register and activate it with the activation code we will send you Registration 30 March 2009 Version 1 0 Page 2 shaderMeister User Manual Registration Registration for shaderMeister shadermeister db w com 11111 BuU Mame Michael alt anpra Mame dow Edw gr SEEMS muvolfeuinfinimap com Once you ve installed the plugin apply the shaderMeister master handler plugin to your scene and click on the Register Plugin button Enter your full name company name if applicable and e mail address Export the registration and attach it to an e mail to registration db w com We will mail you an activation code within 24 hours after payment is received depending on the time difference You can now import the keyfile attached to the activation e mail Your registration is now complete and you will see the interface of shaderMeister allowing you to use it The registration file is stored in the same directory as the plugin in the file shaderMeister key If you use multiple licenses of LightWave 3D from a single network share the registration manager will only append edit licenses locked to the dongle installed on the host machine It will however manage multiple licenses allowing for a single registration file on your network share Included Plugins shaderMeister is a collection of plugins for LightWave 3D Currently it consists of the following plugin
26. uts in the nodal surface shading system They may be overridden by surface nodes connected to the respective shading inputs or the material input in a surface shading network Material This input overrides the Diffuse Specular Reflection Refraction Shading and Transparency It may be overridden by surface nodes connected to the Shading inputs or the Material input Colour Override This colour completely overrides the colour of the currently rendered pixel This will be displayed as is in the final image If Colour Override is connected LightWave 3D will not compute any shading on the surface by itself unless it is a nodal surface This can be a tremendous speed boost rendering out passes that do not rely on shading lighting Unfortunately this may be overridden by shading and Material nodes when using nodal surfacing 30 March 2009 Version 1 0 Page 7 shaderMeister User Manual shaderMeister Shader Plugin shaderMeister Shader Plugin The shader plugin needs to be applied to all 40d shader Y Edi surfaces that you intend to override with On Name shaderMeister If there is no shaderMeister global shading network in the scene the shader plugin will do nothing In Modeler it will do nothing as well The shaderMeister shader can be mass applied using the Scene Editing option in the master handler The objects will need to be saved after that to Vv1 D wine make the change permanent Mar
27. ve3D SimplePresets content presets are stored in the current content directory shaderMeister supports the concept of default presets If you name a preset default then it will be loaded automatically if shaderMeister is added to a scene shaderMeister searches for default presets in the user global and content presets in that order This means that a default content preset overrides a global default which in turn has precedence over a user preset Save as Preset This option allows you to save the current shaderMeister settings to a preset Choose any of the three types and enter a name for the preset You can also use the small pop up to select any of the currently available preset names Delete Preset This allows you to select and of the available presets and delete them from the hard drive 30 March 2009 Version 1 0 Page 5 shaderMeister User Manual User Interface Global Shading Enabled This is a switch to deactivate shaderMeister Deactivating the Master Handler itself in the list of Master Handler plugins will currently not disable shaderMeister Nodal Graph This opens the nodal shading graph that serves as the override The inputs reflect the settings that are available via the normal surface editor However since shaderMeister is applied as a shader they may behave differently Disable Surface Nodes This option disables all nodes that are applied to the original surfac
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