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3D Studio Max
Getting the right material
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25 May 2006I am orking at the moment on some stuff. Modeling is finished almost. Now I have to take time to get the materials done.
How do I make plastic the best way?
- Now the next material: thats a hard one:
I want to do some reflections with a metallic look
You may look on the circle of one of my older works:
http://holysoft.de/data/Product/HD_Fini ... der_01.jpg
I want to have this circle produced procedural. So that the shine moves over the surface, etc... any ideas. I the picture it was solved with a texture!
Thank you for your help
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25 May 2006It looks like a fairly standard metal texture in that picture if you want to replicate it. A variable amount of blurry reflection with the right lighting/scene or hdri setup. You could make that material fairly easy, but if the lighting + what it is reflecting is way off then its going to look fairly standard. With a plastic however, you will want to give it a bit of transparency/translucency so that it still looks solid, has a nice reflective raytraced glossy surface but it still feels that it was at least once malliable and has children of its own.
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25 May 2006what happend to you? consumed to much 3d, h?? Bt THank you for the helpful infors, will post results soon...
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25 May 2006http://holysoft.de/data/In%20Progress/Hd%20Design/
You may look under this directory the results at the moment. I am totally disappointed with the results!
I will incrase the realistic look, I am using Scanline Renderer, should I use another Renderer? -
26 May 2006Personaly, I would use a 3rd-party renderer like VRay, Mental Ray, Final Render, Brazil e.t.c But that's just me, I have more of an understaning of these and it is easier for me to get a result with these than it is with the default scanline renderer. With your renders the first thing I noted was the lack of focus, or the lack of bits that are drawn away from the focus to be a bit more accurate and also the ground is a bit offputting. What I would suggest with this piece, is have a fully white background, or fully black, with the ground to either reflect it the piece, or have just shadows, not a falloff of light or anything. The focus should be on the piece, not on the dark falloff of shadow on the ground. With the actual lighting and piece itself, I would reccomend deeper secondary shadows. For example, in your last render it is like everything is too well illuminated, It makes it look fake and plasticated and uncomfortable to the eye. The textures and modelling I think are great, it's just the rendering and lighting that is letting you down.
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26 May 2006Ok, i ill try now a 3rd party renderer. The lighting until now is only for fast rendering to check out materials. I have finished a global illumination solution.
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