Less "plastic" render

[erikals]

Hi,
I'm trying to make the render look less "plastic", is there any smart way to do this? I coudn't find a solution to this, I tried using "Gradient Light incidence" to make the "midtones" of the object less saturated, but it doesn't really solve the problem.

Is there any way to control the light/render so that the midtones on the object doesn't get that saturated?


Erik

[Red_Oddity]

Give your object less color (or use a gradient which reacts to you lights incidence angle (but that would make it any less plastic)

Also, ditch the specular, or atleast tone it down a bit.

The reason it looks plastic because, well, right now it is plastic, add some diffuse roughness, bump, color differnces...

Also, asking to make something a little bit less plastic is hard to answer properluy if people don't really know what you want to achieve instead of plastic...what metal, wood, water, gas, stone, skin? what?

[erikals]

Hi,
thanks,

Yes, the topic headline should have been a little different, my bad :)
What I'm trying to do is to make the "midtones" of the object less saturated. The area where I put the purple ring around it is the area I want to change, I want to take away the highly saturated colors in that area. By using a "Gradient Light incidence" it partly works by making the highlight areas less saturated, but not enough. Maybe I should play around with the gradient a little more.

Yup, will change the specular a little.


Best,
Erik

[Elmar Moelzer]

I suppose this should be gold, or something?
Here are a few tipps:
Use reflection instead of specularity
Reduce the diffuse- level the same amount you add reflectivity (so i.e 60% diffuse 40% reflectivity).
Use color highlights.
Hope that helps.
CU
Elmar

[Mebek]

If I want something to just generally look "less plastic," I'll add a slight bump map setting - something like turbulence, crumple, dented, or good ol' fractal noise and set both the scale and amplitude really small. For instance, using Dented with a value of about -5% to -10% helps things to look more like clay or ceramics (without the glaze), and I generally keep the specular low and the glossiness wide (I guess that would be the low values too). If you're trying for a more metallic / glassy look, use gradients on the diffuse/reflection(/transparency) channels' incidence angle to mimic the Fresnel effect.