Glossy Reflection Shader for ShaderLab

[cthulhu]

UPDATE: More recent version and sample pics. Added functionality for glossy reflection and translucency.



Hello, all. I've been away for a while, but still dabble in trueSpace from time to time.

Here's a glossy reflection shader for ShaderLab I'm working on. Thought I'd post a draft version of it that seems to be working good.

Be sure to set the following raytrace options when using the shader:
Reflect = 0.01
Ray Limit = 0.01
Max Depth = 2 or greater

Glossy 5.zip

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[Cellulo]

Thanks cthulhu can i use your shader for my Modelside Edition V2.0 ? also with your old shaders for Shaderlab and shadermagic from old trueSpace forums.

[cthulhu]

Hi Cellulo. Yes, you may use my shaders.

[Cellulo]

Thanks cthulhu.

[cthulhu]

Additional sample images...

[Cellulo]

Thanks for the update cthulhu it's really cool effect.

[Draise]

Very nice.

[cthulhu]

UPDATE: Fixed links to images below (hopefully). Also trying to get glossy reflection and refraction working together in one shader.

Been re-working this glossy shader for better speed, but still running into bugs. Thought I'd post a comparison render (straight mirror vs. glossy/brushed look). Brushed metal render was 5 minutes on a 2GHz Intel i7 laptop with 6GB of RAM.

My original shader used an array to hold the blur offset values, but the new shader uses a loop to keep averaging samples together. The original shader used straight random numbers to blur things, but I'm trying a hybrid random+noise function. It can also self-reflect quite well. I hope to post a working, usable shader soon.