Render this: SSS

EarthMover · 11 Nov 2009, 21:21

WOW...these are all amazing. Love the blue rubber Remus (and Jeff). Here's "light side" angle of my previous on a Jade material stand.

remus · 11 Nov 2009, 21:28

just downloaded the material form the indigo materials database, so cant take any credit for it

Rich O Brien · 11 Nov 2009, 22:07

Twilight User

Here's my problem -

Place model in 'Basic Studio' with Omni Light behind model

Apply SSS material to model (Red Gum)

Sunlight Disabled

Sky Type - Background Color (Black)

Render at Medium+ (Still Cooking after 30mins)

Vista64bit - AMD Turion X2 Dual Core - 4GB

When i cooked at lower presets the model was very dark? Do i need to up light size?

EarthMover · 11 Nov 2009, 22:16

Here's a try with the dragon in vray using an SSS sssnake ssskin material applied to the refraction channel.

And another without the skin bitmap.

solo · 11 Nov 2009, 22:30

Rich

So far I've only been playing with Vue, I am yet to try Twilight for SSS, I know Miguel (Ecuadorian) has done some tests over at Twilight successfully. I would guess that using Twilight in conjunction with Kerkythea for the advanced material editing that you will get great results.

I will give Twilight a try later and hopefully I can figure it and and if I do I will see if I can help further.

However, try adding another point light behind camera also

Chris_at_Twilight · 11 Nov 2009, 22:33

@unknownuser said:

Twilight User

Here's my problem -

Place model in 'Basic Studio' with Omni Light behind model
Apply SSS material to model (Red Gum)
Sunlight Disabled
Sky Type - Background Color (Black)
Render at Medium+ (Still Cooking after 30mins)
Vista64bit - AMD Turion X2 Dual Core - 4GB
When i cooked at lower presets the model was very dark? Do i need to up light size?

The Low, Med, High presets, being biased, don't do nearly as good a job at SSS as the unbiased methods. They have to make approximations and assumptions which can turn out quite well sometimes, but with complicated organic shapes you aren't going to get as good of results. At at the really low end, with Low or Low+, you may not actually get any results from SSS and translucency because those are designed for higher speed.

avariant · 11 Nov 2009, 22:38

@unknownuser said:

Twilight User
Here's my problem - ...

The red rubber dragon I posted above was done in Twilight. I just used the SSS Rubber Ball right out of the box. It's done with Interior +, so that's probably the difference.

This is Twilight also.

EarthMover · 11 Nov 2009, 23:09

Avariant..iridescent one is fantastic. Really good showing from Twilight.

Last one from me. Added some displacement in the mix.

Ecuadorian · 11 Nov 2009, 23:19

I just want to print and hang in my walls all renders by Remus, Pete and Adam, they're wonderful!

olishea · 11 Nov 2009, 23:20

earthmover these are fantastic! and yeah remus that blue rubber is amazing!

dale · 12 Nov 2009, 00:38

A little from Kerkythea

solo · 12 Nov 2009, 00:59

My first twilight attempt.

Ecuadorian · 12 Nov 2009, 01:05

A couple of lazy attempts with just Twilight library materials:

Milk:

And blue gum. Indigo and Maxwell beat Twilight big time when it comes to blue gum/rubber.

Rich O Brien · 12 Nov 2009, 01:08

@solo said:

My first twilight attempt.

I'm sick as a parrot after that one.

What the $@#* am I doing wrong?

I've read the manual, I've followed the tuts. All that's left is to remove the mallet from my ass and beat myself with it

Goodnight

solo · 12 Nov 2009, 01:14

Rich, here is my setup, see I have 3 lights behind and one in front, I rendered using preset #9

I used the studio setup, painted black, I have no sun and a black background.

Click Draw · 12 Nov 2009, 01:36

Here's my attempt....

Click Draw · 12 Nov 2009, 01:38

looks like I'm a bit behind.....oops Guess I've been Dragon my ass....

d12dozr · 12 Nov 2009, 01:55

Fantastic renders, guys! This is so cool

Using Twilight, I also had the same problem as Rich, I started using the Low and Medium presets and it was taking forever, but I'm getting much better results after switching to #10 - Interior+ (but not good enough to post here yet)

woodtick · 12 Nov 2009, 02:28

Very interesting thread........thanks for starting this.I've just started working with Twilight and rendering in general.Keep in mind I'm a carpenter, not a graphic artist so any breach of rendering etiquette is purely unintentional. This is what I came up with....not sure it meets any of the sss criteria but it sure was fun trying.

Rich

Ecuadorian · 12 Nov 2009, 02:41

Twilight Render's Easy 09 preset should be enough; Easy 10 enables color dispersion and some other special FX, however.

I made two more tries: One with Easy 09 and another one with Easy 10. I stacked them together:

And then added some airbrush to the eyes and altered the curves a little bit in GIMP:

Hey, Pete, how about "Emitters and LEMs" for the next "Render this"?