Layer Thinner Contour Shader

The Layer Thinner bases the contour lines’ thickness on the trace depth as determined by the Contour Contrast Function Levels shader.

• mental ray material > Advanced Shaders rollout > Click Contour button. > Choose Layer Thinner (contour).
• Other material > mental Ray Connection rollout > Advanced Shaders group > Unlock Contour if necessary. > Click Contour button. > Choose Layer Thinner (contour).

In the following illustration, the glass pane is semi-transparent. The shader detects that situation and makes the lines thinner when they are drawn inside the glass pane.

Interface

Color

The color used for rendering the contour lines.

Width (%)

The thickness of the contour lines at the top layer.

Depth Factor

The factor for thinning the contour at each layer.

For example, to get contours that are 2 percent wide when the material is on top, 1 percent wide when the material is behind one other (semitransparent) material, 0.5 percent wide when the material is behind two materials, and so on, set Width (%) to 2.0 and Depth Factor to 0.5.