Wine W.I.P

[KPS]

Here is a project I am working on.
It still needs lots of work, but I have a question: How do you get glass to look thick??
should I add more refraction??

[KPS]

Here is the Image.

[KPS]

:)

[adrian]

Well the bottles look very good already.

I can't give you technical detail as I don't really know for sure, but I think to get the feeling of thickness you would do something like this:

Make a copy of the bottle and flip the polygons so they face inward - and shrink the bottle down a bit so it fits inside. Name these flipped polygons "air"

If this is wrong, then someone please correct me.

As I said I can't give you settings as I don't know how to do it myself except that I do know the refraction setting is different for "air" than for "glass".

Oh, I just remembered - I have a book on photorealistic texturing by Bill Fleming at home which I think covers this - if no-one else has posted here before then I will post back with what it says in there.

Anyway, a nice start to your image!

Adrian.

[ponder_it]

When you do the final render don't forget to turn caustics on. The only other comment that I have for you is that your background looks weird where the extruded half disk meets the box at the back. I looks like a smoothing error. Try changing your smoothing to 30% on the surface to see if it changes. Also if you get the chance, and I know that this is a work in progress still, but it was bugging me is the lack of character to the wallz behind the bottles not sure if it's important or not.

Cheerz

[KPS]

Here is the latest rendering.
I have verry little time to work on this so it is taking a long time.

[adrian]

The bottles are looking great. The liquid looks fairly good but a little like water. Maybe give it some tint to look a bit more like wine?

Nothing else I can add - looking good!

Adrian.

[hrgiger]

The bottles, as in the glass, do look good but once again are looking pretty clean and flawless, you might want to try some procedurals on the spec channel.

[adrian]

Of course, one thing I forgot to add earlier - LABELS!!!!!

Adrian.

[KPS]

Thanks for all of your inputs.
I will be making adjusments, and off couser LABELS.

[mswanson]

I'd like to see that cork a little closer, it looks good, even appears to be stained or wet at the base.

[KPS]

Here is a close-up of the corks.

[Maimo]

one thing looking at the reflections, i noticed that there is a polar type pinch. look at the edge of the window how it converges to a point? perhaps you need to tweek the seam angle.