[Joerg271]

Here my final version of "Nespresso citiz" that I've modeled in Moi, Cinema 4D R15 and rendered in Maxwell 2.7.
The smoke was created in Photoshop.

I hope you like it.

Greeting Jörg

[tom]

So how did you manage to get rid of those artifacts?

[Joerg271]

Hi Tom,
I've created a new foam material without SSS and because the artifacts were gone.

I have tested before, what kind of material is the problem, and there remained only the foam.

Greeting Jörg

[tom]

So your foam geometry is intersecting the coffee and/or cup, right?

[Joerg271]

Actually not.
Coffee and foam is an object and then selected and awarded material.

The object is situated in the glass and the glass has also a thicker edge.

I would imagine that it comes by the glass material to strange reflections.

Greeting Jörg

[Nasok]

I think for SSS to perform properly it should be a separate object with no intersection. so ideally you should have 1 object for a glass, object for a coffee and one object for a foam .. and to get rid of what we call "z-fighting" you should have a tiny (I would say nano) gap between them, which you can mask in different ways.

Probably I'm wrong … as all my experiments with SSS failed so far ) but just thinking logically

[Joerg271]

Hello to all,
Here is a revised version of the Nespresso machine.
This time fully illuminated area lights without HDRI, but only me.

Greeting Jörg

[Hervé]

maybe the Coffee foam is a bit thick.. but great improvement..

[Mike1158]

I am no expert but I like it, clean and sharp.