- Mon Oct 14, 2013 2:58 am
#371965
My goal is to get a good render of jewelry. My models are in Rhino.
1st problem: I have yet to get a quality render from Maxwell.
Diamonds (using diamond.ior) always look bad. Probably the lighting. No metal intersecting. If I fiddle and fiddle and fiddle with lights I get something decent enough to send a client. Sometimes I hide an invisible emitter just of the top of a large stone with a clipping mask to force black and dispersion. They always look fake, but at least they are returning light.
2nd problem: I'm investigating HDR Light studio as a solution to my 1st problem, but it doesn't work inside Rhino.
I'm learning Maxwell Studio and finding it unusable for macro photography. I can set the grid to absolute with 1mm spacing and see that my object is scaled correctly. But I cannot work with the camera coordinates as they are in meters. Scrolling them jumps a meter at a time.
I'm at my wits end. 6 months with Maxwell and it has just been a bear. No jewelry tutorials. No macro tutorials.
1st problem: I have yet to get a quality render from Maxwell.
Diamonds (using diamond.ior) always look bad. Probably the lighting. No metal intersecting. If I fiddle and fiddle and fiddle with lights I get something decent enough to send a client. Sometimes I hide an invisible emitter just of the top of a large stone with a clipping mask to force black and dispersion. They always look fake, but at least they are returning light.
2nd problem: I'm investigating HDR Light studio as a solution to my 1st problem, but it doesn't work inside Rhino.
I'm learning Maxwell Studio and finding it unusable for macro photography. I can set the grid to absolute with 1mm spacing and see that my object is scaled correctly. But I cannot work with the camera coordinates as they are in meters. Scrolling them jumps a meter at a time.
I'm at my wits end. 6 months with Maxwell and it has just been a bear. No jewelry tutorials. No macro tutorials.