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Depth Map shader snippet and bricks for Shader Mixer.

I place no restrictions on what you may do with this set of content. It's a pair of snippets to allow …

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Depth Map shader snippet and bricks for Shader Mixer.

I place no restrictions on what you may do with this set of content. It's a pair of snippets to allow DAZ Studio to have depth-based shaders that work on surfaces rather than cameras. Currently, depth nodes work only with cameras; through some mathematical shenanigans I've built ones that works on surfaces. The Depth Map is the final result, which can easily be plugged into the Shader Mixer and used to drive other functions. Have fun with them.

Files are two Shader Mixer bricks, which end in the .dcb extension, and a Shader Mixer file, which ends in the  .dbm extension.

The Depth Map brick maps the scene from white (close) to black (far), depending on how you set the Minimum and Maximum Distance variables.

The Eye to Point Distance brick is a quick and dirty brick to get the raw distance between the viewer and the surface in the scene. The Depth Map brick takes that output and massages it into something more usable; however the raw data itself might be more helpful in some situations, so I've included it.

A tutorial/explanation of the functionality is included in the readme.
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