New glossy translucent material

[Lord Crc]

Here's a really quick test I did to see how it would work for a skin material. First just plain glossy, then glossytranslucent + internal absorption. It's subtle but it definitely looks more "alive" to me

Please note that the scale is wrong cause I didn't bother rescaling my monkey scene, so it's 2+ m wide that suzanne. So if you use it you need to adjust the absorption @ depth accordingly. Also this is without any "inner skin" for any subsurface scattering.

Still given how quick it was to set up I think it produces very nice results

[Lord Crc]

Here's a quick render I did of the above but setting the diffuse channel to black. Shows the effect of the translucent part.

[paco]

Looks good

Pretty subtle effect but with a diffuse of 0.7 and a transmission of 0.7 you're only getting about 0.5 coming through ( with diffuse =0 you'll get 0.7 coming through). Maybe increase the transmission a bit?

[Lord Crc]

Ah yes I forgot about the auto-clamping, good point. Though I quite liked the subtlety of it

[jeanphi]

Hi,

However the effect is already quite strong, I never so any flesh transmitting that much light at 1 meter

Jeanphi

[patro]

Hi Paco

Jeanphi put to my attention that you developed this new material.. thank you for it

I was the starter of the "LuxRender official feature request thread"
viewtopic.php?f=13&t=4373
please give a look if you find something interesting to work on

I credit your work in this post:
viewtopic.php?f=13&t=4373&p=50860#p50860
--
Patro

[paco]

shucks

Actually I just hacked together something so pitiful, that it annoyed jeanphi enough that he couldn't bear it anymore and had to fix it.

That was my cunning plan all along of course

[patrickwalz]

social engineering is still engineering paco -- either way you both got it done and it looks great!

[patro]

shucks

Actually I just hacked together something so pitiful, that it annoyed jeanphi enough that he couldn't bear it anymore and had to fix it.

That was my cunning plan all along of course

I'm pretty sure that the developers are busy enough... but if someone is able to provide a properly input... they are happy to discuss this work and add it to LuxRender.

what you can do now... for your material is a small tutorial, with some small renders that show how to use it... and how to setup the value to achieve some results

PS: I agree 100% with patrickwalz

[Dobz]

The new glossy translucent material is looking very good, here's a quick render showing it on a tree: