[rusteberg]

it's been a while since i've rendered anything with maxwell and got the itch to make something today for just that purpose.... about to drag it into mxst and play around with it...

[rusteberg]

some quick renders.... a few noticeable seams...

[rusteberg]

higher SL with simulens...

[rusteberg]

horn clump....

no post, straight from maxwell


simulens with slight color correction

[rusteberg]

[m-Que]

From my point of view - gotta play more with material:
Needs some shininess/roughness, and definitely SSS.
Otherwise it looks too fake, or at least not like a horn.
Looking forward for an updates,
Good luck

[rusteberg]

indeed m-que, not horny enough to satisfy me either
took your advice and tried to find the spot in material to make them more horny.
sometimes easy to find, sometimes takes a while...
hopefully my stamina can last. i'll post an update when the horns get tired... from rendering. Thanks for the feedback!

[rusteberg]

new material with SSS, SL @ 19.94

[rusteberg]

[m-Que]

Yeees, way better now
Though i wonder, what's with noise at such a high SL values

[rusteberg]

no idea..... i tweaked with the sss parameters a bit and raised the absorption and scattering for the next one and set it to render over night so we'll see what happens...

[zdeno]

this noise will never dissapear in this resolution. You have to render this image at least twice bigger to SL about 13-14 (same time) and just change image size to smaller version, this nasty dots will be gone.

[KurtS]

I think the SSS makes it look like plastic. I think you should try to add some dirt/color...

[rusteberg]

thanks kurt! i needed to hear that.

here's the reference horn i was originally working off of.. it's old and weathered...
back to square 1 it is.... will play around with the color map to see if that helps...

[ivox3]

You can't see any sss in that thing ... I thought your first ones were pretty good, ...just need the mentioned sheen.