zakkain
06-15-2008, 09:58 PM
Hello hello!
I'm modeling a lamp where the bulb is covered by a colorful translucent plastic shade. Below are pictures of said lampshade.
http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z276/stuntmanmike/IMG_1087.jpg
http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z276/stuntmanmike/IMG_1086.jpg
http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z276/stuntmanmike/IMG_1085.jpg
My problems come when trying to make the material for the shade. First off, I'm working in Mental Ray, and the scene is set up in a typical studio lighting scenario - skylight with final gather turned on, etcetera.
I can't seem to get this thing to work. I really don't know a lot about mental ray and shaders, sss, etcetera, so I've tried things but can't get any good results, for the lampshade OR the bulb. I just don't know how best to do this.
Help me out, please? I have dabbled a bit with Architectural materials and Fast-SSS materials for the shade, and a big glowy arch material for the bulb - I also tried a Glow (fume) shader in a mental ray material for the bulb. The thing is, I've tried these out because I've heard they work, but I don't really get *how* to make these things work for me. I've been tweaking spinners for a while, but I think my problem is more that I don't really know how, beyond the basics, to get what I want. Randomly tweaking spinners isn't enough.
What's the best way to get what's in the pictures?
I'm modeling a lamp where the bulb is covered by a colorful translucent plastic shade. Below are pictures of said lampshade.
http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z276/stuntmanmike/IMG_1087.jpg
http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z276/stuntmanmike/IMG_1086.jpg
http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z276/stuntmanmike/IMG_1085.jpg
My problems come when trying to make the material for the shade. First off, I'm working in Mental Ray, and the scene is set up in a typical studio lighting scenario - skylight with final gather turned on, etcetera.
I can't seem to get this thing to work. I really don't know a lot about mental ray and shaders, sss, etcetera, so I've tried things but can't get any good results, for the lampshade OR the bulb. I just don't know how best to do this.
Help me out, please? I have dabbled a bit with Architectural materials and Fast-SSS materials for the shade, and a big glowy arch material for the bulb - I also tried a Glow (fume) shader in a mental ray material for the bulb. The thing is, I've tried these out because I've heard they work, but I don't really get *how* to make these things work for me. I've been tweaking spinners for a while, but I think my problem is more that I don't really know how, beyond the basics, to get what I want. Randomly tweaking spinners isn't enough.
What's the best way to get what's in the pictures?