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Help with falloff node. What am I missing.

Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2018 12:00 pm
by gordonrobb
Doing a bit of testing, trying to get a good see through plastic. I am wanting to use the falloff node to control the scattering.

here is my node setup....
ScreenClip.png
I have a white texture and a black texture through a mix node. With the mix at zero percent. This is what it looks like
Zero.jpg
At 100%, it looks like this.....
100.jpg
So I want to control this with a fall off. Which I have set to min 0 and max 1. But when I plug this into the mix, I get this...
Falloff.jpg
What they hell am I doing wrong?

Re: Help with falloff node. What am I missing.

Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2018 12:04 pm
by baltort
Hi,

What are your settings in the falloff node?

Cheers,

J.

Re: Help with falloff node. What am I missing.

Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2018 12:29 pm
by gordonrobb
just the defaults. 1,0 and 6 (although I want it to be 10). there is a massive increase in how bright the surface is. Surely 1, should equate 100% mix, which should mean that part should just look like the surface does in the 100% image.

Re: Help with falloff node. What am I missing.

Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2018 5:46 pm
by juanjgon
I'm not sure what could be the problem. If you want to share the scene, I could take a look at it here.

Thanks,
-Juanjo

Re: Help with falloff node. What am I missing.

Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2018 3:51 pm
by gordonrobb
I’ll package it up when I get home. How do I send it to you? :)

Re: Help with falloff node. What am I missing.

Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2018 7:36 pm
by juanjgon
gordonrobb wrote:I’ll package it up when I get home. How do I send it to you? :)

You can attach it to a pm, or use my email [email protected]

Thanks,
-Juanjo

Re: Help with falloff node. What am I missing.

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2018 8:42 am
by gordonrobb
I have sent you the file. Let me know what I'm doing wrong :)

Re: Help with falloff node. What am I missing.

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2018 11:39 pm
by juanjgon
Thanks, I've reported this issue to the Octane devs, because it sounds like a core issue to me.

-Juanjo

Re: Help with falloff node. What am I missing.

Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2018 8:34 am
by gordonrobb
OK, thanks. So am I right in my assumption that this should allow me to blend between the two? And I wasn’t doing anything wrong?

Re: Help with falloff node. What am I missing.

Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2018 9:52 am
by juanjgon
Yes, this is what I understand. To me, it seems some kind of issue on the Octane side with this shader setup.

Thanks,
-Juanjo