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Rim Light Cheat 1.0.0 for Maya (maya script)

Automatically add rim lighting to your materials/ textures

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  • 2013, 2012, 2011

Operating Systems

  • Linux
  • Mac
  • Windows

History

Created:01/04/2013
Last Modified:01/07/2013
File Size: 1.33 KB

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Rim light

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Some time ago I wrote a little script to automate adding rim-lighting ramps to materials. I recently added some defaults so thought I'd share it.

Download and place it in your scripts folder:

Mac: User/Library/Prefrences/Autodesk/Maya/Maya-20xx/scripts

PC: My Documents/maya/20xx/scripts

 

Select a material (Lambert, VrayMtl, Phong etc.), or a texture node (Ramp, File, Checker etc., etc.).

Screen_Shot_2013-01-03_at_15

Then in the commands bar or script editor type the following:

 

In MEL:

python "import AddRimLight"; python "AddRimLight.addRimRamp()";

Or Python:

import AddRimLight

AddRimLight.addRimRamp()

This will add a ramp and a sampler info node and hook them both up.

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Adjust the colours on the ramp to taste, and render away.

 

Here's a before:

beforeRim_01_iw

And after:

afterRim_01_iw

Not bad for the press of a button.

The clever thing we're doing here is adding a sampler info node and using it to power a ramp based on the angle between the camera and the object. The more acute the angle, the more the bottom colours on the ramp will be used.

If you select a material node, the ramp is added to the colour slot (and decent defaults are automagically set for you), if you select a texture node, the ramp is added to the Colour Offset attribute (in the Colour Balance roll down) - defaults are also created for this mode, but they will almost certainly need tweeking.

Enjoy!




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