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    • E Offline
      Ecuadorian
      last edited by

      A couple of lazy attempts with just Twilight library materials:

      Milk:
      milk.jpg

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

      -Miguel Lescano
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      • Rich O BrienR Offline
        Rich O Brien Moderator
        last edited by

        @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

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        • soloS Offline
          solo
          last edited by

          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.


          tw sss setup.jpg

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          If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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          • C Offline
            Click Draw
            last edited by

            Here's my attempt....


            sss.jpg

            Have I mentioned how much of a laugh I get out of some of the Signatures on here!

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            • C Offline
              Click Draw
              last edited by

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

              Have I mentioned how much of a laugh I get out of some of the Signatures on here!

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              • D Offline
                d12dozr
                last edited by

                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)

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                • W Offline
                  woodtick
                  last edited by

                  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


                  sss7.jpg


                  sss16.jpg

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                  • E Offline
                    Ecuadorian
                    last edited by

                    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:
                    dragon-eyes-stacked.jpg

                    And then added some airbrush to the eyes and altered the curves a little bit in GIMP:
                    dragon-eyes-postpro.jpg

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

                    -Miguel Lescano
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                    • A Offline
                      avariant
                      last edited by

                      I started with the Twilight SSS template (Wax I think), then I made some extra changes in KT to produce this material. I was really surprised how it turned out; I really like it.

                      light_jade.png

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                      • massimoM Offline
                        massimo Moderator
                        last edited by

                        Coca-cola version. Just a Kerkythea material.


                        dragon.jpg

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                        • E Offline
                          Ecuadorian
                          last edited by

                          Another try with Kerkythea. I didn't let it cook for more than a couple minutes as I'm preparing another one.
                          Kerkythea Dragon.jpg

                          -Miguel Lescano
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                          • S Offline
                            sepo
                            last edited by

                            Guys I am really impressed with varied and good output. Seems all unbiased are doing really well, but I am very impressed with Vray/Max combo and Vue. 👍 👍

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                              thomthom
                              last edited by

                              @ecuadorian said:

                              Next time you ignore kitty, the dog will pay.

                              😆

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                                dacad
                                last edited by

                                Wow guys, great renders you're pulling out. I'm really liking this thread.
                                But can i ask for the ones using twilight to, instead saying the number of the preset, can you say the method of render?like photon mappping, ppt, mtp, bpt, etc etc etc. Just to compare results and see how diferent methods afect the materials in the final image. Thanks

                                avariant
                                Great material and render. Is that MLT?

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                                • E Offline
                                  Ecuadorian
                                  last edited by

                                  Thanks, Sid.

                                  DacaD, in Twilight, presets Easy 01-07 use Photon Mapping. Easy 08 use Progressive Path Tracing. Easy 09 is MLT. Easy 10 is BiPT-MLT.

                                  I liked Remus' blue rubber dragon so much that here's my attempt to have an Aerogel dragon in Kerkythea:
                                  Aerogel dragon.jpg

                                  -Miguel Lescano
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                                  • T Offline
                                    tallbridgeguy
                                    last edited by

                                    I'm still having some trouble making a decent render in kerkythea. The dragon I tried looked great but I don't think it was sss.

                                    I downloaded some sss materials from the KT website, coke, red, blue, yellow and gum. I am using the the three backlights and the front light suggested by Pete (with MLT) but I can't get the sss light changing direction thingy. Just a well lit dragon. (which I like and the software is free.)

                                    Could someone post some KT settings for a sss dragon? It would be very helpful if the comparison settings were shown for Vray vs KT and the matching images to see how the two systems compare.

                                    Great renders in this thread!

                                    thanks!
                                    s

                                    Nielsen
                                    http://www.tallbridgeguy.com/

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                                      nomeradona
                                      last edited by

                                      joining you here... using translucent material vray sketchup.. which the equivalent of SSS

                                      http://i334.photobucket.com/albums/m421/nomeradona_1234/dragon.jpg

                                      visit my blog: http://www.nomeradona.blogspot.com

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                                      • E Offline
                                        Ecuadorian
                                        last edited by

                                        TBG, I gave up trying to achieve SSS in Kerkythea, too; I do most of my renders in Twilight, which uses the same engine. My last blue dragon in Kerkythea is literally filled with air; it's just fog. Here are my settings. I scaled the dragon a lot (it is around 30m long) so the fog would become visible.
                                        Captura 1.PNG
                                        Captura 2.PNG

                                        -Miguel Lescano
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                                          d12dozr
                                          last edited by

                                          My attempt on the dragon...Thanks for starting this thread, Pete, I've learned so much and the subjects are so fun that I'm really excited to render them 👍 ...oh, and the amazing images are an incentive as well

                                          Twilight Render, White Wax Library material I think, #10 preset - I stopped cooking after 8 hours (this SSS is killing my poor laptop) 💚

                                          Say, is there a way to change the library colors in Twilight, or to I have to do that in Kerkythea?


                                          Dragon SSS Test 8h Preset10.jpg

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                                          • olisheaO Offline
                                            olishea
                                            last edited by

                                            you can change templates but not library.....but im sure u can change library in kerkythea, maybe im wrong. and yes sss is very slow

                                            oli

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