EEVEE: Pointiness doesn't work #51940

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Danyl Bekhoucha · 2017-06-30T13:38:51+02:00

Danyl Bekhoucha commented

2017-06-30 13:38:51 +02:00

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I have tried to plug a Geometry > Pointiness node then a Color Ramp to the Emissive input of the Metallic shader in the latest build at the time i am posting and nothing appears, i get a flat color.

I have tried to plug a Geometry > Pointiness node then a Color Ramp to the Emissive input of the Metallic shader in the latest build at the time i am posting and nothing appears, i get a flat color. ![pointiness.png](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F647565/pointiness.png)

Danyl Bekhoucha commented

2017-06-30 13:38:51 +02:00

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Changed status to: 'Open'

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2017-06-30 13:38:51 +02:00

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Brecht Van Lommel commented

2017-07-01 20:09:12 +02:00

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Brecht Van Lommel commented

2017-07-01 20:09:12 +02:00

It's a bit too early for this I think, there's lots of Cycles features that Eevee does not support yet. But will leave it to the Eevee developers to decide if they want to keep this open as a to do item.

Dalai Felinto commented

2017-07-02 16:31:23 +02:00

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Dalai Felinto commented

2017-07-02 16:31:23 +02:00

Changed status from 'Open' to: 'Archived'

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2017-07-02 16:31:23 +02:00

Dalai Felinto self-assigned this 2017-07-02 16:31:23 +02:00

Dalai Felinto commented

2017-07-02 16:31:23 +02:00

Indeed, it's still early for this kind of report. Technically the bug is that we are exposing nodes that are not supported. But pointless is one of many. Closing it for now. Thanks for the report though.

liujie commented

2018-06-03 23:46:49 +02:00

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liujie commented

2018-06-03 23:46:49 +02:00

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Maybe Clay's cavity can do this in future,i hope so.

Jacob Merrill commented

2018-11-08 09:35:02 +01:00

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Jacob Merrill commented

2018-11-08 09:35:02 +01:00

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will pointiness be fixed soon?

what does it use under the hood kdtree ? (to get all vertex in a radius?) or bvhtree ? get all faces in a radius and then get verts?

will pointiness be fixed soon? what does it use under the hood kdtree ? (to get all vertex in a radius?) or bvhtree ? get all faces in a radius and then get verts?

Jonathan Dunlap commented

2018-12-06 04:05:32 +01:00

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Jonathan Dunlap commented

2018-12-06 04:05:32 +01:00

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@brecht @dfelinto can we reopen this now that 2.8 is in beta?

Jonathan Dunlap commented

2018-12-06 04:06:10 +01:00

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This is the last feature I need to move entirely away from Cycles for most of my projects <3

Brecht Van Lommel commented

2018-12-06 10:13:28 +01:00

Features not supported by Eevee yet are listed in the documentation, not handled as bugs:
https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/dev/render/eevee/materials/nodes_support.html

Features not supported by Eevee yet are listed in the documentation, not handled as bugs: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/dev/render/eevee/materials/nodes_support.html

pistol ioan commented

2019-01-08 20:15:15 +01:00

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pistol ioan commented

2019-01-08 20:15:15 +01:00

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Some news about this missing feature?

Oliver commented

2019-03-10 00:09:10 +01:00

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Oliver commented

2019-03-10 00:09:10 +01:00

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Really needing this node to work for true procedural texturing with EEvEE.
Am a game developer and am waiting for this soo much. When I can bake stuff with this feature I maybe could even move away from Substance.
This or a dedicated curvature/edge wear node

Really needing this node to work for true procedural texturing with EEvEE. Am a game developer and am waiting for this soo much. When I can bake stuff with this feature I maybe could even move away from Substance. This or a dedicated curvature/edge wear node

Alex commented

2019-05-17 20:16:39 +02:00

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Alex commented

2019-05-17 20:16:39 +02:00

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Why is this bug still closed? Is there another way to get this effect in Eevee? Would really love if this worked in Eevee :/ @dfelinto

Laszlo Scherman commented

2019-06-10 16:58:12 +02:00

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Laszlo Scherman commented

2019-06-10 16:58:12 +02:00

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Please, reopen this issue, it is time to solve this in Eevee too!

Jonathan Dunlap commented

2019-06-10 17:31:05 +02:00

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Idea: if eevee cannot support pointiness, is it possible to design an auto baking step (like global illum step) so that a cycles-rendered pointiness map gets auto created for use in Eevee. I guess 'in theory' this could be a plugin too, although it would be better to get a solution into blender core. This is basically what other people are doing manually get get pointiness in Eevee by doing a manual baking step from Cycles... but it's a lot of manual steps if you have several materials that use pointiness.

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2019-06-11 12:09:35 +02:00

Clément Foucault commented

2019-06-11 13:11:57 +02:00

This feature needs preprocessing that is intensive. It wouldn't be realtime. It's a complex problem and will not be tackled for 2.80 release.

Luciano Muñoz Sessarego commented

2019-07-08 11:27:44 +02:00

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Luis Burdallo commented

2019-08-08 18:19:11 +02:00

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Luis Burdallo commented

2019-08-08 18:19:11 +02:00

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I also think a pointiness map generation for the mesh would be appropriate if not real-time.

DGruwier commented

2020-04-15 13:33:24 +02:00

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DGruwier commented

2020-04-15 13:33:24 +02:00

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Something similar to this already exists in Blender, running in realtime, as the "cavity" display option in workbench. I think porting that shader to Eevee as a shading node would provide 90% of what people are looking for in the pointiness shader, withtout having to deal with baking.

Lingfox commented

2020-07-29 19:34:23 +02:00

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Lingfox commented

2020-07-29 19:34:23 +02:00

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In #51940#910357, @DGruwier wrote:
Something similar to this already exists in Blender, running in realtime, as the "cavity" display option in workbench. I think porting that shader to Eevee as a shading node would provide 90% of what people are looking for in the pointiness shader, withtout having to deal with baking.

Yes, I agree. I was looking all over the internet to copy the cavity settings from workbench to eevee, but to no avail.
Hope they'll add it somewhen soon.

> In #51940#910357, @DGruwier wrote: > Something similar to this already exists in Blender, running in realtime, as the "cavity" display option in workbench. I think porting that shader to Eevee as a shading node would provide 90% of what people are looking for in the pointiness shader, withtout having to deal with baking. Yes, I agree. I was looking all over the internet to copy the cavity settings from workbench to eevee, but to no avail. Hope they'll add it somewhen soon.

Mircea Kitsune commented

2020-09-30 13:57:31 +02:00

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2022-11-03 14:14:57 +01:00

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EEVEE: Pointiness doesn't work #51940