Challenge Chair

olishea

whats the density of it? dont send me the material file, i wanna learn how to achieve the effect!

most SSS i see are very dense, dont even look translucent, yours is perfect

marvins_dad

Okay - had to play a little more. I think the top of the chair is looking more and more like Cousin Itt.

marvins_dad

Okay - last one.

"Cousin Itt" Chair http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=active&client=firefox-a&hs=rvE&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=cousin%20itt&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1600&bih=1048

jsteacy

@Dylan - the render is just Olishea's model with an Hdri I downloaded, I can't remember where from though.

@Olishea - I didn't modify the model you posted so I don't know how it un-softened that edge like it did....

@Massimo - I love the look of those plastic materials.

massimo

Ok no material file then Oli...But it's quite hard to explain

The "basic" material is a layered material made as a mix between a dielectric glass and a layered material made with transmitted colour and specular. By changing the percentage of the weights between the two layers as well as by changing the transmitted & specular shininess you can control the "density" of the material. The balance of that one was: dielectric glass--> 0.2 and transmitted + specular--> 0.8. The IOR used is 1.345.![scheme of the structure of the "basic" material](/uploads/imported_attachments/sIgR_schemeofthematerial.JPG "scheme of the structure of the "basic" material")

massimo

Glad you like it jsteacy .
This model is really funny... So here you have a "sculpture chair" . An experiment with a material made with a wireframe procedural used as a clipmap.

olishea

bloody hell!

these are getting out of control, thats seriously impressive. thanks for material help by the way, Im trying to learn KT material editor. how have you mapped that mesh texture so well?! im proper baffled...or does it "add" material to the lines of the geometry?

"wirefame procedural"? not seen these before i guess the clue is in the name!!

cousin itt is so funny!!

massimo

No maps at all.
It's just the mesh of the model... With that procedural you have only to choose on what edges you want to apply it and set the tickness, fadeout etc..

pyroluna

Hey Oli why don't you try and sell your chair design to Ikea? Fastest money you've ever made

jsteacy

@Olishea - Thanks for the model links, they are great. I attached a quick render of the pollen model. I didn't have the time to let in run for a while but hopefully I will soon. I only got 10 passes on it.

@Massimo - cool wireframe material, I'm curious since twilight can use kerkythea materials if you can use the wireframe material in twilight. That would be really cool.

jsteacy

Glass render

EarthMover

I thought this would make a cool Wicker chair. Done in Max/Vray. Quadrified the SU mesh with a plugin called Wrapit for Max and then converted the quad edges to a renderable shape (spline). Quick three light studio setup.