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Hey guys!

Here is a plug im working on but something just doesn't look right? I think it may be the look of the brass material (looks a bit CG)! Just cant get the lighting right!

There are a couple of bits to complete or correct:

1) The exported geometry needs more smoothing
2) Fuse texture still to complete
3) Possibly more shine to the plug material
4) Might do some cables for more detail

Will be grateful for more critics! or some advice to improve

Thanks



Lighting Setup

Looking so nice

Maybe a noise map for the roughness of the metals would help.

It's looking good.

i think the reason why it doesnt look totally photoreal is the lack of edgebevels. they are just too hard.

Hey

@ Tom ( its Tom!) - wait till you see the update, Thank you Tom!
@ Fernando - Good point! Thank you
@ KRZ - I see where your coming from, will do some edge bevels Thank you


Tea_bag

Hey Fernando,

I havent done much using roughness maps, How does the map effect the roughness?

Is this noise map fine?



Thanks Tea_bag

I would use a less fine noise, not like grain but like clouds or smoke and not very contrasted.
White parts mean roughness=100, black parts r=0
You'll notice that the numeric square is still active. It will act as a top limit or a percentage for white color scaling the grey values down. If its 100 the map will act as it is; if you set 50 the map values will all be half its real value.

Thanks again Fernando!

UPDATE



Still need to sort the edge bevels and add some bits but for now playing with materials to get the right look

Comments are welcome

Thanks
Tea_bag

Hey all,

Thought Id post this, viewport image! I'm just Luv the way this program displays the model in the viewport really good! So clear too.

Maximus3D gave me the link to this program (Thanks) its called moi3D.

Hi,

Here is a update for you all hope you like it

It looks better now with the fillets

hehe, you corrected it, because I was seeing this one

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You are quick, that was going to be a suprise Nico Was just going to update that one thought I ended the render early for the hair dryer as I wanted to post it, its been rendering all day

@Thanks Thomas I took some valuable advice

OOps, sorry about that, I'll delete it