Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL

Subject: P5 gemstone ruby material

lululee opened this issue on Feb 20, 2005 ยท 9 posts

lululee posted Sun, 20 February 2005 at 6:26 PM

Does anyone know how I would make a P5 ruby gemstone material for the Daz free lapidary set? cheerio lululee

rowan_crisp posted Sun, 20 February 2005 at 9:14 PM

If you'd be so kind, I'd really appreciate it if you gave me the link to the lapidary set - the front page of Daz's site crashes my browser no matter which one I use. I'll see what I can do. :)

rowan_crisp posted Sun, 20 February 2005 at 9:23 PM

How is this?

Ajax posted Sun, 20 February 2005 at 10:29 PM

This is probably not the nicest gemstone shader around, but it has the basics. For realism with gems it's important to get the refractive index right. For ruby, it's 1.76


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rowan_crisp posted Sun, 20 February 2005 at 11:14 PM

Ajax is the man. :)

Rosemaryr posted Mon, 21 February 2005 at 9:00 AM

Attached Link: http://www.3dlapidary.com

For those who are interested, 3D Lapidary has a large collection of free models of gemstone cuts, as well as information on refractive index, color, and other real-world properties of gemstones.

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Furyofaseraph posted Mon, 21 February 2005 at 9:03 AM

Actually, what would happen if you were to put a falloff map in the reflect, or maybe a color math between a falloff and a cloud.

lululee posted Mon, 21 February 2005 at 9:45 AM

Thanks so much everyone. Great info. I truly appreciate it. cheerio lululee

hauksdottir posted Tue, 22 February 2005 at 7:20 AM

The other tricky thing with gems and such is that the shadows they cast have light gathered in them... not a solid shadow at all. Carolly