Just another Ubershader - CyclesMTL (inspired by Vray)

Support Materials and Textures
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Hi Guys,

Since Ubershaders are not that bad anymore because the Mixnode was optimized for 1 and 0 Factors, I decided to create my own ubershader that fits my needs. I really liked the Vray standart material VrayMTL so i tried to make it somehow similar to it. The Reflection/Refraction/Emission Mix Factor is controlled with its colorvalue in the color input. So for example black Refract means no Refraction, White or full-value-color means full Refraction/Reflection…
The Gain Value is (not like Emission) an multiplier for the incoming light. Not physically accurate but nice.
The file contains the CyclesMTL nodegroup with the most used Settings and the CyclesMTL adv nodegroup with some extra options (see below).
I think all Options are self explaining otherwise.

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here are some example Presets:

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please let me know if you miss something or have optimization suggestions.
Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwxZrAjHvHTebWRkdkh1ZVU1VVE/view?usp=sharing

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thanks, will give it a spin

btw
have you considered tackling on the alSurface of alShaders (source@github)? recently also ported to VRay (source@githuhb)

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i haven’t discovered it until now but it looks very nice! especially the two levels of specular for clearcoat etc and the sss. Thanks for the info I will definitely try that one.