A hand for a Gold Material

[feilong78]

Hi everyone!

I'd like to render a gold ring which be later be a part of a project around "The Lord of Rings" subject but i have some issues about how material work in Blender with LuxBlend.

So i made a ring and apply to it a gold material as shown here:



As you can see there is a petrol effect on it and i want to erase it. And moreover, i want to give it an aspect due to the time...So for that i have this tutorial http://www.luxrender.net/wiki/Gold_material but i need some help to make the link between it and my version of Blender (2.62).

Anyway, i just want some general advices to render a beautiful gold material.

Thanks

[feilong78]

As for example i don't clearly understand textures in Luxrender like "gold::Kr::amount" etc
Does it refers to an editable file, a slider ?

[zeealpal]

Try the gold material from the LuxRender material database??

Otherwise try the metal preset, or shiny metal with a gold colour, those are probably easier.

[feilong78]

The image shown is the gold material picked up from the database by enabling the Luxrender Material Database

[Abel]

It looks like the coating effect is way too strong, could you post the scene here? There might be something wrong with the scale.

[LadeHeria]

I think too you have a scale issue, the material look like this by me :

gold.png (60.97 KiB) Viewed 1298 times

(or like this with a more complexe scene : gallery2.php?g2_itemId=19009 )
Try to have 1meter = 1BU

LadeHeria

[feilong78]

Hi everyone!

I fixed the problem by setting the reflection color texture to gold::Kr and by setting the specular color texture to gold::Kr also. I also changed my ring but i have another problem.
I would like to make a unique ring from the Lord of Rings, so i have two textures corresponding to the inner and outer inscriptions on the ring in black & white.
So i want to do a vector displacement map to affect the geometry of the ring by mapping these two textures...

I make two UV maps by the use of seams and so i want to map the textures on it and after i would like to set an influence (vector displace)

Can somebody help to do that?

[Meelis]

Hi

Look at this links.

http://www.luxrender.net/wiki/Microdisplacement
http://www.luxrender.net/wiki/Normal_mapping
http://www.pixologic.com/docs/index.php/Understanding_Normal_Maps

[feilong78]

Ok so in luxrender i can use microdisplacement and using Cycles i can use True Displacement (http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2 ... splacement)

But know i have to deal with the correct integration of this things

[zeealpal]

Ok so in luxrender i can use microdisplacement and using Cycles i can use True Displacement (http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2 ... splacement)

But know i have to deal with the correct integration of this things

You can use true displacment with LuxRender as well, just sue the 'loop' subdivision scheme. Combine that with a bump/normal map for more detail without being memory intensive.