Selector material (selectbsdf)

Selector material (selectbsdf)#

Parameter

Type

Description

Flags

indices

texture

A texture of integer indices indicating which underlying BSDF is active as a function of space coordinates.

P

(Nested plugin)

bsdf

At least two nested BSDF instances that are selected based on selection indices.

P,

This plugin implements a selector material, which uses a texture to select one of an arbitrary number of nested BSDF plugins. The index texture should take discrete integer values (even if it is internally stored using floating-point numbers).

The index texture should be initialized carefully when using a bitmap plugin:

  • set the raw parameter to True to prevent spectral pre-processing;

  • use a nearest filter type to avoid interpolation between pixels;

  • it is more efficient to use a single-channel storage.