9.3 Materials test

[DogBoy]

I recently went to the British museum for an exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Crafts.
Great exhibition and it made me want to try to recreate some of the pieces.

I ended up with this, more of a homage than an actual recreation :hey: .

FG Interp. Rad around 6 minutes each

[Bytehawk]

nice materials.

could however use a bit more AA

[DogBoy]

I wondered about the awful spots around the gold.
I set AA at 6, & AS 0.1. But they were still there :thumbsdow

Noticed in the "9.3 test" thread that turning on LDR helped.
So I tried that. This is the result:

[Bytehawk]

it's the hdr map. that map creates the specular spots. They'll only disappear if you
a) blur the hdr significantly
b) use LDR to limit the highlights

[prospector]

How did you get that internal looking gold flake???????

[Matt]

Nice pearl material!

[Bytehawk]

yep the pearl material rulez :)

[DogBoy]

Prospector: I cheated :devil: there are 2 physical surfaces: the lacquer and the flecked under coat. I would have done it all in one, but I'm not that clever :thumbsdow .

Bytehawk/Matt: Yeah, I'm kinda proud of the Mother o' Pearl. I had to use IFW2 so I could displace a gradient based on incedence angle. I couldn't work out any other way (see my answer to prospector about my mental accuity).

Thanks guys for the nice words

[prospector]

I cheated
In 3D there is no cheating.....only doing :thumbsup:

So... think ya can share settings?.....both surfaces :D

[DogBoy]

Well, here are the objects I originally used for the pearl.

*WARNING* You need IFW2, so I've posted a screenshot as well.
As you can see it is really quite simple. I don't do complex.

I'll sort something out to show the lacquer tomorrow. I need to get to bed ;)

[prospector]

Thanks!!! :)

[GregMalick]

totally nice!

The light reflection seems way overblown - but I really like where you are headed with this.

tasteful tasteful tasteful :thumbsup:

[warrenwc]

NICE!
Thanks:thumbsup:

[zapper1998]

Oh boy...

Thank you

Awesome looking Box there..love the pearl look..

[DogBoy]

Thanks guys. The lacquer actually needs more work.
The original piece has variable transparency on 2 levels, where mine currently only has it on 1 (and there not as it should be).

Firstly if viewed head on it was thicker towards the edges/corners so the flecking could onlt be seen in the centre of a face. That I've done.

Secondly, when viewed from obtuse angles it would too thick to be able to see the underlying surface. That I have to add. I'll just add a multiplier to the present absorption by incidence. Work of a couple of minutes, I'd guess.


I just got a bit carried away wi' the MoP.

Greg: Yeah i should dial down the saturation on the MoP somewhat, I just got carried away :jester:

[colkai]

Well man, you know my opinion. :D
Keep it a comin' sirrah. :)

[Exception]

As grandmaster Colkai once said in another thread that kind of slipped my mind at the moment:

"Wheee!"

[Iain]

That looks fantastic. Materials are beautiful but I can't understand what you've got it sitting on/floating above.

Come on man, get a proper table or floor in there!

And thanks for sharing the setup.:thumbsup:

[DogBoy]

Iain: this was to test the materials. I have a version that is in an environment, but it takes nearly twice the time and I have to use F9s to test this as FPrime doesn't like these surfaces.

[Iain]

I know but it would just read better with a stool or something to ground it. Even reflect those painstakingly built materials a tiny bit.

As I said in SB1's rocket thread, just tell me to pi** off if you like :)

[DogBoy]

As I said in SB1's rocket thread, just tell me to pi** off if you like :)

:D , nah! it's all good. I know what you mean and it was the first thing I did once I was happy wi' the work so far.

[DogBoy]

Oops, i forgot to send the lacquer and glitter.
I'm sure that I could do this in one surface... but I didn't :D

[Wopmay]

As you can see it is really quite simple. I don't do complex.


Gorgeous.
Simple?
R i i i i i g h t.

Somebody take pity on a poor underprivileged Waver. What does IFW2 stand for?

[cagey5]

http://www.ifw2.co.uk/

[Wopmay]

Thanks!

[DogBoy]

Sorry WopMay, I should have provided a link. My bad :)