[def4d]

i have modeled my spot as Olitech explained, but you can see the resulting squares
I understood that both the cylinder and the reflector inside must be a 100% reflective plastic material (so a perfect mirror), or am i wrong?
Like me, it seems that you made your ball with a sphere, and the problem is we don't obtain square mirror on the poles, anyone has a tip to model it perfectly?

Morbid angel : your idea of the mirror ball is great!

[Mihai]

I just modelled one with instances of squares on the sphere, so you get (almost) rectangular squares all the way to the poles:



It's also only about 6500 polys. I didn't finish it at the poles, but you can easily add a couple squares there. The model contains all the squares plus a separate sphere which you should give a very dark diffuse mat.

FBX format ->Discoball

[tom]

When modeling lighting and optical equipments, I usually prefer coal coated shells for preventing multiple reflections. For reflective parts, it's ok using 100% specular plastics. I quickly modeled the ball from primitive sphere, so it's not the original discoball but it's just for demonstration. It should be modeled with equal squares on circular paths but I didn't want to waste time with it. I see Mihai already achieved it well with scattering over poles.

[tom]

2 D65, 1 COOLWHITE SPOT, MXI ENVIRONMENT
NO POSTPROCESS, PURE M~R, SL 20 UPDATED

[Thomas An.]

Excellent results !
Thank you Tom for taking it to the next level.

[tom]

Thank you Thomas!

[Mihai]

I propose any future renderer comparison MUST contain a disco ball somewhere

Nice work tom!

[tom]

With more demands, I can also model all the disco even with dancing people

[tom]

Thank you olitech!
It was possible with alpha once but temporarily disabled for technical
reasons and will be available again. It's atmospheric fog.

[sam7]

Hi!

from the good old times when fog used to work

http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2882

(Disco-Ball Animation included)

[Thomas An.]

Hi!

from the good old times when used to work

http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2882

(Disco-Ball Animation included)

Hey Sam,

Kudos to you as well !
It seems you were the first to do this.

[Mihai]

I completely missed that, nice one sam!

[tom]

Yes sam, it was great as I already commented.
Thx ilhnga I updated the image on the previous page with SL 20.
No big change but less noise ...

[def4d]

Mihai : Thx for your answering/model
Sam : your anim is great!
Tom : it rocks! Hope to see an anim next week-end, when i'm back

[sam7]

Thank you guys

Sad I did not use one of your cool models
with dielectrics over the mirrors

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