Re: Node rendering in LW9

Hobbit #37 wrote:

Having watched the lastest LW9 teaser video from NT, I can't help wondering what the new node rendering will actually give LW users that we couldn't achieve before. I'm not wining, as I'm grateful for any update(s), just wondering if it's a case of 'new version what else can we add?' rather than 'What else do the users actually want?'.

Maybe it's just me ...

It's you. :) Nodes are far more powerful than Layers and you can drive any variable from virtually any other node. Like altering the rotation of a texture based on its occlusion and other bizarre stuff like that.

They've got new shading models in there too if you watch closely, native support for Subsurface scattering, OrenNayar, velvet shading, anisotropic specularity etc.

jw.
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