Northstar don't use the texture of materials

[Flamaros]

When I use the hybrid backend to render the matbal of the 63_tutorial I got rusted textures correctly used, but when I render the same scene with the northstar backend texture aren't displayed on the matbal.

		CHECK(rprContextCreateImageFromFile(g_context, "../resources/renderer/textures/amd.png", &uberMat3_img));

		rpr_material_node uberMat3_imgTexture = nullptr;
		CHECK(rprMaterialSystemCreateNode(g_matsys, RPR_MATERIAL_NODE_IMAGE_TEXTURE, &uberMat3_imgTexture));
		CHECK(rprMaterialNodeSetInputImageDataByKey(uberMat3_imgTexture, RPR_MATERIAL_INPUT_DATA, uberMat3_img));

		rpr_material_node uberMat3 = nullptr;
		CHECK(rprMaterialSystemCreateNode(g_matsys, RPR_MATERIAL_NODE_UBERV2, &uberMat3));
		CHECK(rprMaterialNodeSetInputNByKey(uberMat3, RPR_MATERIAL_INPUT_UBER_DIFFUSE_COLOR, uberMat3_imgTexture));

		CHECK(rprShapeSetMaterial(planeShape, uberMat3));


		//
		// Create a new Uber material for the orb model.
		//

		rpr_image uberMat2_img1 = nullptr;
		CHECK(rprContextCreateImageFromFile(g_context, "../resources/renderer/textures/lead_rusted_Base_Color.jpg", &uberMat2_img1));
		rpr_image uberMat2_img2 = nullptr;
		CHECK(rprContextCreateImageFromFile(g_context, "../resources/renderer/textures/lead_rusted_Normal.jpg", &uberMat2_img2));

		rpr_material_node uberMat2_imgTexture1 = nullptr;
		CHECK(rprMaterialSystemCreateNode(g_matsys, RPR_MATERIAL_NODE_IMAGE_TEXTURE, &uberMat2_imgTexture1));
		CHECK(rprMaterialNodeSetInputImageDataByKey(uberMat2_imgTexture1, RPR_MATERIAL_INPUT_DATA, uberMat2_img1));
		rpr_material_node uberMat2_imgTexture2 = nullptr;
		CHECK(rprMaterialSystemCreateNode(g_matsys, RPR_MATERIAL_NODE_IMAGE_TEXTURE, &uberMat2_imgTexture2));
		CHECK(rprMaterialNodeSetInputImageDataByKey(uberMat2_imgTexture2, RPR_MATERIAL_INPUT_DATA, uberMat2_img2));

		rpr_material_node uberMat2 = nullptr;
		CHECK(rprMaterialSystemCreateNode(g_matsys, RPR_MATERIAL_NODE_UBERV2, &uberMat2));

		CHECK(rprMaterialNodeSetInputNByKey(uberMat2, RPR_MATERIAL_INPUT_UBER_DIFFUSE_COLOR, uberMat2_imgTexture1));
		CHECK(rprMaterialNodeSetInputNByKey(uberMat2, RPR_MATERIAL_INPUT_UBER_DIFFUSE_NORMAL, uberMat2_imgTexture2));
		CHECK(rprMaterialNodeSetInputFByKey(uberMat2, RPR_MATERIAL_INPUT_UBER_DIFFUSE_WEIGHT, 1, 1, 1, 1));

		CHECK(rprMaterialNodeSetInputFByKey(uberMat2, RPR_MATERIAL_INPUT_UBER_REFLECTION_COLOR, 1, 1, 1, 1));
		CHECK(rprMaterialNodeSetInputFByKey(uberMat2, RPR_MATERIAL_INPUT_UBER_REFLECTION_WEIGHT, 1, 1, 1, 1));
		CHECK(rprMaterialNodeSetInputFByKey(uberMat2, RPR_MATERIAL_INPUT_UBER_REFLECTION_ROUGHNESS, 0, 0, 0, 0));
		CHECK(rprMaterialNodeSetInputFByKey(uberMat2, RPR_MATERIAL_INPUT_UBER_REFLECTION_ANISOTROPY, 0, 0, 0, 0));
		CHECK(rprMaterialNodeSetInputFByKey(uberMat2, RPR_MATERIAL_INPUT_UBER_REFLECTION_ANISOTROPY_ROTATION, 0, 0, 0, 0));
		CHECK(rprMaterialNodeSetInputUByKey(uberMat2, RPR_MATERIAL_INPUT_UBER_REFLECTION_MODE, RPR_UBER_MATERIAL_IOR_MODE_METALNESS));
		CHECK(rprMaterialNodeSetInputFByKey(uberMat2, RPR_MATERIAL_INPUT_UBER_REFLECTION_IOR, 1.36, 1.36, 1.36, 1.36));

		// Apply this new Uber Material to the shapes
		for (const auto& iShape : matBallShape)
		{
			CHECK(rprShapeSetMaterial(iShape, uberMat2));
		}

Notice that the plane is rendered with the AMD texture with both backends.

[bsavery]

Do you see the same with tiff or png textures?

[Flamaros]

I have the same rendering with png. So I tried to comment some material properties and I found that RPR_MATERIAL_INPUT_UBER_REFLECTION_MODE is the one that remove the rendering of textures when enabled.

The main issue IMO is that the 2 backends doesn't seems to interpret weights factor in the same way.

[RichardGe]

I confirm that in 63_tutorial , the rendering is not the same for Hybrid and Northstar.
maybe a difference due to weights, as you are suggesting.
We need to investigate that