volume_omni_base

An volume_omni_base material is used to create a visible light volume around flat light emitters: embedded wall lights, flat ceiling lights or fluorescent lamps. They are applied to Volume omni objects only.

In the States tab you can set rendering passes and available options. Enabling some of the states activates additional textures and parameters in the Textures and Parameters tabs respectively.

For this material the states contain only Options field.

All the options can be either enabled or disabled by ticking the respective boxes.

All the states can be set to default ones - click a Set to parent button near the state (if the state is different from the default one, its field will be highlighted with green).

The states available for this kind of materials are listed below.

Options

The following options are set in the Options field of the States tab.

GUI name	XML name	Description
Soft Interaction	volume	Allows to avoid visual artifacts (such as sharp edges) when the Volume omni intersects other objects. Volume object fades out to the intersection plane. (The color of the Volume omni and the object is smoothly interpolated in case they are approximately of the same depth value.) Disabled Interaction Enabled Interaction (Interaction = 2.5)

In the Textures tab of the Materials Editor you can:

• Load the textures - click a Load button near the texture and specify the path to the texture or type the path in the texture field manually
• Open the view window to see texture's details - click a View button near the texture
• Set the current texture to default one - click a Set to parent button near the texture (if the texture is different from the default one, its field will be highlighted with green)

The textures available for this kind of materials are listed below.

Base Textures

Base textures are loaded and modified in the Base field of the Textures tab.

GUI name	XML name	Description	Channels
Attenuation	attenuation	Attenuation map. A texture that specifies how the object fades out from the center (the left side of the texture) to the edges (the right side of the texture). Fading out near the edges depends on the attenuation texture.	RGB channels

In the Parameters tab you can set or modify base and additional parameters.

Parameters of different types are set in different ways:

• expression - vector values can be set either in the field near the parameter or in the dialog window opened when double clicking this field
• slider - the value can be set either by smoothly moving the slider of the scroll box or manually in the box near the parameter (if required, the value bigger than maximum one for the slider can be set)
• color - the color can be chosen in the dialog window, activated after double clicking the color field

All the parameters can be set to default ones - click a Set to parent button near the parameter (if the parameter is different from the default one, its field will be highlighted with green).

The parameters available for this kind of materials are listed below.

Transform Parameters

Shading

Soft Interaction