FranOnTheEdge opened this issue on Jun 06, 2008 · 10 posts
FranOnTheEdge posted Fri, 06 June 2008 at 2:01 PM
Does anyone know what the correct settings are for a green bottle glass material would be? I'm close but no cigar yet.
Measure
your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)
ThunderStone posted Fri, 06 June 2008 at 3:13 PM
Can u post what u got so far? Maybe I can help u out with that.
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OS: Windows 11 64-bit
Poser: Poser 11.3 ...... Units: inches or meters depends on mood
Bryce: Bryce Pro 7.1.074
Image Editing: Corel Paintshop Pro
Renderer: Superfly, Firefly
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tom271 posted Fri, 06 June 2008 at 3:19 PM
You'll need to post.... and tell us which color texture you are working with...
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SndCastie posted Fri, 06 June 2008 at 4:27 PM
Yea a screen shot and what mat you are using will be helpful.
Sandy
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dhama posted Fri, 06 June 2008 at 4:32 PM
There are some glass mats here, maybe the green one is close to what you want?
wildman2 posted Fri, 06 June 2008 at 6:18 PM
"Reinstall Windows" is NOT a troubleshooting step.
FranOnTheEdge posted Sat, 07 June 2008 at 9:05 AM
In the meantime I thought about it some more and in the end I used a clear crystal glass from the presets and just changed the diffuse colour to a green I liked and the transparency to a lighter green.
Ended up with a nice one - dunno why I didn't think of doing that in the first place - basic brain malfunction, obviously.
I do have a nice selection of glass colours, plain and frosted... just not on this PC - I must've panicked I guess... Duh!
Hey Wildman2, I like your cork material and that's a nice tiled surface you've put it on - the glass mat looks similar to what I've got now. I don't think it's too dark, but I'm looking for many different glass mats now, as I want to do a scene with lots of bottles in it - different shapes and thus different types of glass. So I'll try a dark green and a lighter green, and blues and browns etc etc.
What are the MatLab settings for your green glass?
Come to that what did you use for the cork?
I used to have a load of cork mats but various hard drive meltdowns later - I don't any more.
I'm not happy with the wine but I can't find the correct refractive index for red wine anywhere, I've searched and searched and searched - nothing. That bright surface could be a combination of the IBL and the angle of the camera though... but I'm not happy with the way it looks....
Measure
your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)
wildman2 posted Sat, 07 June 2008 at 11:58 AM
wine should be water at 133. would it be easier to send the scene?
"Reinstall Windows" is NOT a troubleshooting step.
ThunderStone posted Sat, 07 June 2008 at 12:42 PM
Hi, I was trying to find the refract index of various substance and googled for it... Here is something that helped.
The Bryce 5 Handbook - Google Book Search
Hope you find this as useful as I did and still do.
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OS: Windows 11 64-bit
Poser: Poser 11.3 ...... Units: inches or meters depends on mood
Bryce: Bryce Pro 7.1.074
Image Editing: Corel Paintshop Pro
Renderer: Superfly, Firefly
9/11/2001: Never forget...
Smiles are contagious... Pass it on!
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday
FranOnTheEdge posted Sat, 07 June 2008 at 6:54 PM
I tried it on brandy, and although I don't think I've quite got the colour right, (I don't drink brandy so I have no reference for it) the liquid looks much better at 33 - that setting has improved the red wine too.
Managed to get a nice looking white wine first time.
Wildman2, Don't really want to send the file - 'cos I'm enjoying playing with it - and it's a great excuse to drink red wine. ROFL!
Cos I've got IBL on, the rendering takes a while each time.
Oh, and I've found a very nice cork texture - improved the image no end.
Hey thanks Thunderstone, I didn't even know there was such a thing as the Bryce 5 Handbook - I thought for a moment you meant the Bryce Bible, and (naturally) I hadn't thought to look in there... probably because it's buried somewhere in my tightly packed car... I think.
Or it might be in Cardiff.....
Measure
your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)