How to set a Shader for Roughness ????

ThomasB

Hi,
I read a lot of threads here about this reflection-layer etc....but I didn´t come up with the solution:

I just want to feed the Roughness with an shader in my case a c4d.Xbitmap.
But I have issues to access it because , the console says module has no attribute .....
Here is small code snippet:

    mat=doc.SearchMaterial("Mat")
    ref_layer=mat.GetReflectionLayerIndex(0).GetDataID()

    gloss=op[c4d.ID_USERDATA,2]  #just the texture path from userdata
    color_gloss=c4d.BaseList2D(c4d.Xbitmap)
    color_gloss[c4d.BITMAPSHADER_FILENAME]=gloss

    mat[ref_layer + c4d.REFLECTION_LAYER_MAIN_VALUE_ROUGHNESSLINK]=color_gloss #Problem
    
    color_gloss[c4d.BITMAPSHADER_BLACKPOINT]=1
    color_gloss[c4d.BITMAPSHADER_WHITEPOINT]=0
    mat.InsertShader(color_gloss)

But as I said, Cinema can´t find the Reflection_LAYER_MAIN_VALUE_ROUGHNESSLINK in the c4d module
Also no highlighted code for this ID, even though i added per drag and drop into the code editor....
What I am doing wrong?

ferdinand

Hello @ThomasB,

thank you for reaching out to us. The problem in your script is that Cinema 4D R23 gave you an incorrect symbol when you dragged the roughness shader parameter into your script. You can always look up the correct symbols in our C++ or Python documentation, or right away use the numeric values they do stand for by inspecting the resource files. You can find a fixed version below.

Cheers,
Ferdinand

"""Cinema 4D R23 did link some incorrect symbols for the layer shader when
dragging and dropping parameters into the console.

This problem does not exist anymore as of R25.
"""

import c4d

def main():
    """
    """
    mat = doc.SearchMaterial("Mat")
    layerIndex = mat.GetReflectionLayerIndex(0).GetDataID()

    color_gloss = c4d.BaseList2D(c4d.Xbitmap)
    color_gloss[c4d.BITMAPSHADER_FILENAME] = op[c4d.ID_USERDATA, 1]
    # REFLECTION_LAYER_MAIN_SHADER_ROUGHNESS is the correct symbol. When push
    # comes to shove, you can also always look into header files to find out
    # the raw numeric values the symbols stand for.
    mat[layerIndex + c4d.REFLECTION_LAYER_MAIN_SHADER_ROUGHNESS] = color_gloss
    mat.InsertShader(color_gloss)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

ThomasB

Thanks
for the quick answer Ferdinand, I already thought of something like that, but unfortunately I didn't find it straight away in the C ++ API ....
Is this drag and drop misbehavior fixed in R25?

bentraje

@ferdinand

i think the problem is still existing in 2023.

Dunhou

@bentraje
Reflection layer symbols can't drag to console to get , maybe you can check Materials document , And GitHub Example for this.

And Shout out to @ferdinand ，this is my topic for this .

Here is a little code I used to set textures for BaseMaterials :

import c4d

def main():
    # Creates a standard C4D Material
    mat = c4d.Material()
    if mat is None:
        raise RuntimeError("Failed to create a new default material.")

    # Removes the default specular layer
    mat.RemoveReflectionLayerIndex(0)

    # Adds a layer
    layer = mat.AddReflectionLayer()
    if layer is None:
        raise RuntimeError("Failed to create a new reflection layer.")

    # Sets the Layer to Blinn mode
    mat[layer.GetDataID() + c4d.REFLECTION_LAYER_MAIN_DISTRIBUTION] = c4d.REFLECTION_DISTRIBUTION_SPECULAR_BLINN
    
    # Sets the shader for width
    colormap = "filename"
    shacolor = c4d.BaseList2D(c4d.Xbitmap)
    shacolor[c4d.BITMAPSHADER_FILENAME] = colormap
    mat.InsertShader(shacolor)    
    
    # Defines the Roughness float value
    mat[layer.GetDataID() + c4d.REFLECTION_LAYER_MAIN_SHADER_ROUGHNESS] = shacolor

    # Inserts a material in the active doc
    doc.InsertMaterial(mat)

    # Pushes an update event to Cinema 4D
    c4d.EventAdd()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

ferdinand

Hey @bentraje,

Thank you for reaching out to us and thank you @Dunhou for your answer.

@bentraje said in How to set a Shader for Roughness ????:

@ferdinand
i think the problem is still existing in 2023.

The description is dynamic for reflection layers. You must use the API with ReflectionLayer.GetDataID to get the base ID of a layer, as shown here in the thread by me and @Dunhou below.

As far as I can see, I never made here any promise that we will fix this. This is not fixable because the ID is dynamic. We could try to replace the "incorrect" ID, but this could also be complicated.

Cheers,
Ferdinand

bentraje

@Dunhou @ferdinand

Gotcha. Thanks for the confirmation and illustration links.