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Custom Closure Development

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rudy4HYXA
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Custom Closure Development

Hello, everyone.

Is there any documentation on how to create a custom closure? Once I create such closure, what would I need to do to "expose" it to OSL?

Thanks so much

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Mike_Farnsworth
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You can create custom BSDFs in Arnold using the C++ API in ai_shader_bsdf.h by filling in the callbacks for your specific BSDF. You can wrap it in a closure like so:

AtBSDF* bsdf = AiBSDF(sg, rgb_weight, my_bsdf_methods, my_bsdf_data_size);
sg->out.CLOSURE() = AtClosure(my_color, bsdf);

This will work from within C++ shaders, but obviously not OSL shaders. Unfortunately, I don't think it's possible at this time to exposure arbitrary closures to OSL code directly. However, you should be able to create a C++ shader that outputs a closure that can be connected as an input closure color to an OSL shader (and vice-versa) in the shader network.

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rudy4HYXA
in reply to: rudy4HYXA

Thanks a lot Mike.

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zhyh3721
in reply to: Mike_Farnsworth

Is this something that is planned? Having the ability to write BxDFs and expose them as OSL closures would be great.

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