[sam7]

thanks for your appreciation!

Yes... SSS might be a speedkiller... try switching it of... I just think it might come out better at certain angles WITH SSS.

I guess it depends on the scene.

Good Luck!

[rosariogigliotta]

update

[sensor]

Sorry folks, but after almost 2 hours rendering, I can't see enough... The effect seems to be there but it's need much (very much) more time to render... I'm trying to tweak your mxm, but I'm not good enough and it's always worse I think it works well for little spaces, but not for mine: each space have 600m2 and the Litracon is importante for letting the light enter in.
Therefore if anyone have an idea, it would be fine.

[rosariogigliotta]

SORRY SENSOR

[Fernando Tella]

If you are tweaking my material, to make it more translucent you should make the transmittance map whiter, reduce the roughness at the glassy layer and make whiter its weightmap.

Rosario, your material looks too glassy; it should only look translucent when backlighted. Take a look at the images at the projects section of the site.

[tom]

Another test, still WIP...

[rosariogigliotta]

fantastic tom

[JCAddy]

looks fantastic Tom, and everyone else is showing great progress as well.

[Fernando Tella]

Awesome Tom!

[Tea_Bag]

Bloody Hell! Tom Great Work!!

[sensor]

"still WIP?!"
Well, I LOVE it Tom, it seems to be a little too glassy (maybe because of the angle of the camera, I don't know...) but the effect is 90% good. Anyway, can you verify if your mxm achieve this:

http://www.litracon.hu/gallery-window.p ... parentId=1
"A model in scale 1:33 was made of the prototypes of the material for the competition, because it was the only way to get a clean picture about the inner lighting conditions and the behaviour of the material."

[Thomas An.]

Tom thrives on inventive challenges

Nice one Tom !

[sam7]

Nice Tom!

Though I think your material is maybe still a bit glassy

my new render of the szene with more solid walls to get more contrast:

[tom]

Thanks for the compliments people

This one definitely rocks sam!
Now I checked your mxm and both our setups are very close. Only major difference is I used rough glass instead of SSS. I confirm you came up with more realistic Litracon. Great job!

[sam7]

Thanks tom. Good to here that from the MATERIAL MASTER!

I made a little ~8h test over the night... unfortunatelly it's quite slow, I have to say
SL 16.59 but still quite grainy.

This is a ML video