Problems with sampling a PluginShader

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On 12/05/2009 at 17:17, xxxxxxxx wrote:

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Hi,

I have a channel shader (class ShaderData), to give color to the clones created by my clone generator. When the clones are created, I store each clone's UVW coordinate.

In my shader's Output() function, I use the UVW coordinate of the clone that's being hit by the ray, to sample from another shader (class PluginShader), in this example it's a checkerboard (but it doesn't matter, which shader I use).
So it's not important where the ray hits a clone, it will always get *one* UVW coordinate for each clone.

Now here's the result:
_<_img border="0" src= "http://dev.c4d-jack.de/public/surfacespread/shader/surfacespread_shader_frommaterial.jpg"_>_

Looks kinda odd, hm? I know the color of each sphere is being sampled from the very same UVW position. But I get these strange artefacts. Sometimes, the Sample() function just seems to return random values.

What I noticed:
1. If I - just for fun - call the sampled shader's InitRender() and FreeRender() functions in my Output function, instead of my InitRender and FreeRender (as I normally do), the artefacts get much worse.

2. It does not happen when I set Cinema's "Render Threads" to "1 (No MP)" in the preferences. So I guess it has something to do with multithreading.

3. Each time I render, the artefacts look a bit different. It really seems to be random.

4. If I only have one clone (so always the same UVW coordinate is used for sampling), no artefacts occur.

I hope somebody know more about this.

Greetings & a thousand thanks in advance,
Jack

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On 13/05/2009 at 06:23, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Any idea on this?

Cheers,
Jack

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On 13/05/2009 at 08:51, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Lets see if I understand this correctly You place clones on a surface. For each clone you accordining UVW coordinate of the surface. In your shader you sample another shader with the UVW coordinate of currently rendered clone.

Where do you store the UVW coordinates? Does it look the same with best anti-aliasing?

cheers,
Matthias

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On 13/05/2009 at 09:04, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi Matthias!

Yes, you understood it perfectly right.

I store the UVW coordinates in the clones' container. I do this with lots of data for the shader, not only UVW, and it always works.

With best AntiAliasing, the artefacts get more and smoother That's totally logical, because the error happens on a per-ray basis. With best AA more rays are fired, so on the one hand bad errors get a little better, but on the other hand, new errors appear in new places.

And again, it only happens with 2 ore more renderthreads. If I use Cinema single-threaded, everything works perfectly. Obviously, the renderer confuses the results that come from different threads.

I can send you the - well commented code - and tell you the lines which are responsible. The shader is actually very small, there's not much in it. Just if you're interested ^_^

Greetings,
Jack

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On 13/05/2009 at 09:10, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Yes, I would like to have a look at the code.

cheers,
Matthias

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On 13/05/2009 at 15:18, xxxxxxxx wrote:

You've got mail
Thanks for the offer!

Frank,
Jack

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On 13/05/2009 at 15:38, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Best of luck there, Jack!!

I wanna see where this is going.

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On 13/05/2009 at 19:00, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Quote: Originally posted by kuroyume0161 on 13 May 2009
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Yeah, me too ^_^

Greetings,
Jack