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With the introduction of the metalness parameter to the VRayMtl material in V-Ray Next, this texture is obsolete. The metalness implementation in the VRayMtl material is more accurate and in addition it includes proper glossy Fresnel calculations for glossy surfaces.

This shader can be used to render materials with complex index of refraction. The regular VRayMtl material can compute the Fresnel effect for dielectric materials like plastic and glass based on the refractive index of the material; however metals have a more complicated Fresnel reflective curve that depends also on another parameter called extinction coefficient.The shader is used as a reflection color map in a VRayMtl material with the VRayOSLTex texture, with the Fresnel option of the V-Ray material turned off (this shader does its own Fresnel calculations). The site http://refractiveindex.info/ has the measured n and k values for many materials like copper, gold etc.

The shader file can be found here: complex_ior.zip

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