With “Thin Walled” activated, light scatters from the backside to the front of a surface, as demonstrated on the lamp rendering. “Thin Walled” mode, found in the “Refraction” tab. Translucency works in conjunction with “Transparency” and “Solid” vs.
“Use Translucency” is used to simulate light scattering through a surface. This documentation is offered by the Swiss High-End rendering company VisualCenter. In this free interactive tutorial you find a complete list of all Mia material x attributes simulated with a dynamic value slider. In Mia material on the other hand, increasing reflections or refractions automatically decreases diffuse.īecause of its fast shading computations, Mia Material X is very effective for both 3D architectural visualizations and high quality 3D cartoon animations. Suppose you have a Blinn shader without reflections and diffuse=1 if now you increase its reflectivity to 0.4 you will end up with a total shading value of 1.4, the surface will appear too bright and you’ll need to decrease diffuse to 0.6 in order to restore the total value to 1. While there are 3 different Mia shaders, (mia_material, mia_material_x, and mia_material_x_passes), it is most convenient to always use the latter one, as the previous versions are identical except for the fact they miss some bump and render passes features.Ī major advantage of Mia compared to standard Maya shaders like Blinn, is that it is energy conserving, meaning that the sum of its values (diffuse, reflection, refraction, translucency, etc.) never add up higher than 1. Mia stands for Mental Image Architecture, it is the most used material to shade hard surfaces like wood, glass, metal, and stone.
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