Clay Render

Mario_21478
Mario_21478 Altair Community Member
edited October 2020 in Community Q&A

Hello,

 

is there any special requirement to activate clay render? ('Enable clay render' is activated of course)

 

I have tried it with environment switched on or off & with or without extra light source.

The result is always the same... complete black objects.

 

Thanks for help, best regards,

Mario

 

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  • ArjunA_22390
    ArjunA_22390
    Altair Employee
    edited August 2015

    Mario,

     

    For an unknown reason the service pack update for 2015 had an issue with Clay Render. We are working on this issue and will address it as soon as possible.

  • Mario_21478
    Mario_21478 Altair Community Member
    edited August 2015

    Hello,

     

    thank you for the information...

     

    Best Regards,

    Mario

  • Mario_21478
    Mario_21478 Altair Community Member
    edited February 2016

    The clay renderer is gone with Evolve 2016 ????

     

    Best regards,

    Mario

     

  • Lunau
    Lunau Altair Community Member
    edited February 2016

    Sorry for interfering with you tropic...but I have missed something like Clay render in Evolve...I didn't know it existed. Where can I find that?

  • Lunau
    Lunau Altair Community Member
    edited February 2016

    Found it...and yes, black results. Looking forward for it in Evolve 2016.

  • Lunau
    Lunau Altair Community Member
    edited February 2016

    Just got the new Evolve 2016....No Clay render!...a danish word for this would be ØV, which would translate to bummer! I was so looking forward to this since I saw the bottom in Evolve 2015.

  • ArjunA_22390
    ArjunA_22390
    Altair Employee
    edited February 2016

    Hi Lunau,

    The clay render feature is from a third party and we ran into several issues in 2015. Unfortunately we could not fix all of them and we made a decision to hide it temporarily.

    Unless we can fix all issues with the clay render I do not see it being exposed to end users. Sorry for any inconveniences caused and an alternate is to render it with clay as a material.

     

  • Lunau
    Lunau Altair Community Member
    edited February 2016

    Hi Arjun,

    No clay material in Evolve 2016...what would you material properties be to get that 'special' clay render feel?

  • ArjunA_22390
    ArjunA_22390
    Altair Employee
    edited February 2016

    Lunau,

    I created a quick clay like material using existing evolve resources. Attached is the zip folder containing the material.

    1. Please extract it and save it to ProgramFiles/Evolve/Evolve 2016.xxxx/MaterialsLib/5/ on PC and for Mac it is Applications/Evolve 2016.xxxx/MaterialsLib/5/
    2. Restart Evolve and you can see the clay material under a new category 'Stone'

    The color is RGB 215 138 84 and I used a Roughness map image 'Pave001b.jpg' under the pavements category. You can play around with the reflection, roughness and also the texture positioning to position the roughness map the way you want including scaling.

    Hope this helps.

    Unable to find an attachment - read this blog

  • ArjunA_22390
    ArjunA_22390
    Altair Employee
    edited February 2016

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>clay.png

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