[robin of nottingham]

trying to get a white base material to stand my jewellery product upon. tried alsorts of white materielas but they all seem to have a grey noisey type specs within it. I am not looking for non reflective just a good white.

I ve looked at the gallery on the main site under engineering/jewellery and see a very good base background. It appears on the 02 picture produced cadadra applied computer graphics. Can anyone advise the type of material that this looks like and the setting required?

Or perhaps its my lighting.... not sure. anyway any help would be gr8.

thanks,

r

[caryjames]

Hi Robin- Check out JD's perfume bottle tutorial on the Think site. He uses a white plastic material that is (I think) straight from the wizard, I started with this as a base and then adjusted roughness until I got what I needed. I find that the white background is very much dependent on light sources. For jewellery I find that the white background is a bit tricky to get without burning out your jewellery-it can be done it just takes a bit of fiddling depending on your scene. Hope that helps
Cary

[ricardo]

You can always use meshID or materalID channels as masks for some photshop touch up later.

It´s a bit off a cheat but usually saves a lot of time. I used to be strong headed about getting everything right from the renderer in the first place. Life just teach me otherwise.


Ricardo