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Generating procedural noise in V3d

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  • #38021

    Hi guys

    this might be a noob question, but how can you make a procedural noise with the noise node not yet supported in Verge3D for Maya? I tried the OSL but it doesn’t seem to work on iOS :unsure:

    #38261

    Unfortunally, there’s no procedural noises supported for Maya yet.

    Co-founder and lead graphics specialist at Soft8Soft.

    #38292

    Hi, what kind of OSL shader you tried? Could you please provide the code listing here?

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    #38344

    This one, It’s the 3ds Max’s osl noise

    #38345

    weired… it doesn’t want to upload the file

    // General Noise Shader, returning a float (1D)
    // Noise.osl by Zap Andersson
    // Modified: 2019-11-26
    // Copyright 2019 Autodesk Inc, All rights reserved. This file is licensed under Apache 2.0 license
    //    https://github.com/ADN-DevTech/3dsMax-OSL-Shaders/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
    
    shader Noise
    [[ string help="A shader for generating more advanced noise" ]]
    (
    	point  UVW    = transform("object", P)
    		[[ string help = "The UVW coordinate to use. When not connected, defaults to Object space" ]],	
    	float  Scale  = 25.0,
    	string Type   = "uperlin"
    		[[ string widget= "popup", 
    		   string help  = "Use perlin, uperlin, cell, hash, simplex or gabor",
    		   string options="perlin|uperlin|cell|hash|simplex|gabor" ]],
    	int   Octaves    = 4
    		[[ string help = "Hos many layers of noise are mixed together" ]],
    	float Lacunarity = 2.0
    		[[ string help = "How much the 'frequency' of the noise changes per layer" ]],	
    	float Gain       = 0.5
    		[[ string help = "How much the amplitude of the noise changes per layer. Higher numbers means higher noise frequencies have more effect." ]],		
    	
    	int   StepFunction = 1 
    		[[ string widget= "checkBox",
    		   string label = "Step Function",
    		   string help  = "Enables a per-layer smoothstep curve in the noise, allowing you to increase the 'contrast' of the noise" ]],
    	float LowStep = 0.5
    		[[ string help = "Low threshold of the smoothstep function.",
    		   string label = "Low Step",
    		   float  min = -1.0, float max = 1.0 ]],		
    	float HiStep = 0.8
    		[[ string help = "High threshold of the smoothstep function.",
    		   string label = "High Step",		
    		   float  min = -1.0, float max = 1.0 ]],		
    	int   Normalize = 1 
    		[[ string widget= "checkBox",
    		   string help = "If the noise is auto-normalized to Amplitude or not." ]],
    	float Amplitude = 1.0
    		[[ string help = "The amplitude of the noise." ]],		
    	float Phase     = 0.0
    		[[ string help = "The 'Phase' is just a 4th coordinate of the noise, can be used to allow it to evolve over time, for example." ]],	
    		   
    	output float Out = 0,
    )
    {
    	point pnt = UVW / Scale;
    	
    	float sum = 0;
    	float curFreq = 1.0;
    	float curAmp = Amplitude;
    	
    	// Loop over number of octaves
    	for (int i = 0; i < Octaves; i++)
    	{			
    		// Compute a noise value
    		float ns = noise(Type, pnt * curFreq, Phase + i);
    		
    		if (StepFunction)
    			ns = smoothstep(LowStep, HiStep, ns);
    
    		// Add our result to the output							
    		Out += ns * curAmp;
    		// Add the amplitude to the normalizing sum
    		sum += curAmp;
    
    		// Step up frequency and amplitude		
    		curFreq *= Lacunarity;
    		curAmp  *= Gain;		
    	}
    	
    	if (Normalize)
    		Out /= sum / Amplitude;
    }
    
    #39208

    Hi,
    WebGL 1.0 (which is the only version supported on iOS devices now) can’t handle loops with non-constant comparisons. Try this code instead:

    // General Noise Shader, returning a float (1D)
    // Noise.osl by Zap Andersson
    // Modified: 2019-11-26
    // Copyright 2019 Autodesk Inc, All rights reserved. This file is licensed under Apache 2.0 license
    //    https://github.com/ADN-DevTech/3dsMax-OSL-Shaders/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
    
    shader Noise
    [[ string help="A shader for generating more advanced noise" ]]
    (
    	point  UVW    = transform("object", P)
    		[[ string help = "The UVW coordinate to use. When not connected, defaults to Object space" ]],	
    	float  Scale  = 25.0,
    	string Type   = "uperlin"
    		[[ string widget= "popup", 
    		   string help  = "Use perlin, uperlin, cell, hash, simplex or gabor",
    		   string options="perlin|uperlin|cell|hash|simplex|gabor" ]],
    	int   Octaves    = 4
    		[[ string help = "Hos many layers of noise are mixed together" ]],
    	float Lacunarity = 2.0
    		[[ string help = "How much the 'frequency' of the noise changes per layer" ]],	
    	float Gain       = 0.5
    		[[ string help = "How much the amplitude of the noise changes per layer. Higher numbers means higher noise frequencies have more effect." ]],		
    	
    	int   StepFunction = 1 
    		[[ string widget= "checkBox",
    		   string label = "Step Function",
    		   string help  = "Enables a per-layer smoothstep curve in the noise, allowing you to increase the 'contrast' of the noise" ]],
    	float LowStep = 0.5
    		[[ string help = "Low threshold of the smoothstep function.",
    		   string label = "Low Step",
    		   float  min = -1.0, float max = 1.0 ]],		
    	float HiStep = 0.8
    		[[ string help = "High threshold of the smoothstep function.",
    		   string label = "High Step",		
    		   float  min = -1.0, float max = 1.0 ]],		
    	int   Normalize = 1 
    		[[ string widget= "checkBox",
    		   string help = "If the noise is auto-normalized to Amplitude or not." ]],
    	float Amplitude = 1.0
    		[[ string help = "The amplitude of the noise." ]],		
    	float Phase     = 0.0
    		[[ string help = "The 'Phase' is just a 4th coordinate of the noise, can be used to allow it to evolve over time, for example." ]],	
    		   
    	output float Out = 0,
    )
    {
    	point pnt = UVW / Scale;
    	
    	float sum = 0;
    	float curFreq = 1.0;
    	float curAmp = Amplitude;
    	
    	// Loop over number of octaves
    	for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++)
    	{			
    		// Compute a noise value
    		float ns = noise(Type, pnt * curFreq, Phase + i);
    		
    		if (StepFunction)
    			ns = smoothstep(LowStep, HiStep, ns);
    
    		// Add our result to the output							
    		Out += ns * curAmp;
    		// Add the amplitude to the normalizing sum
    		sum += curAmp;
    
    		// Step up frequency and amplitude		
    		curFreq *= Lacunarity;
    		curAmp  *= Gain;		
    	}
    	
    	if (Normalize)
    		Out /= sum / Amplitude;
    }
    

    Also, we’re working on supporting noise shader in Maya. Check out the upcoming Verge3D preview release.

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