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How to create Thick Semi Transparent plastic?
I would like to create semi transparent plastic material in cycles like this reference picture.
This is my current node setup.
And this is the result i am getting. Ignore the background.
and when ...
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How do i get a specky looking metal through material nodes
This question might be rather specific, but i'm trying to replicate my laptop in a 3D render.
(specifically, xiaomi notebook pro)
I cant seem to get the specky metal of the laptop. This is my current ...
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Texturing: Adding black lines from geometry
First time posting on the Blender stackexchange!
My question is regarding the black outlines on this wall:
Basically I'm trying to recreate something similar to the image in cycles (different ...
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Modifying my rough hard plastic material for photo realism
I spend way to many hours on trying to find a working node setup for my plastic material. I tried using PBRs, suggested node setups from Stack Exchange for Blender 2.7 and less, but nothing really ...
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Cheetah Print Sunglasses Texture
This is probably a simple question, but I would really appreciate some help here. I am trying to replicate the material of the attached image. I'm a little lost so far and have tried several different ...
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Blacklight CFL Bulb Effect?
I have been searching everywhere, and I can't find an answer so I'm coming here!
I'm trying to create a CFL Blacklight bulb. I've attached a couple images below of what I've tried to make. I'd love ...
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Painted wood on surface
Is there a way to make a painted material from the picture below? All answers are welcome.
I know it. So, the image texture for the base colour is using a ColorRamp node, linked into a Principled ...
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Fabric material (coloured)
Does anyone know an idea to accomplish this from the picture?
(source: emancipath by Zeitguised)
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How can I achieve more realism in this given scene? [closed]
I've been working on this project in Cycles for quite some time now and it's probably my first project I created and rendered in blender (besides creating some simple shapes before but not rendering ...
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Cycles Realistic Lighting & Emission material
I've been reading a bit on realistic lighting in Blender and was introduced to realistic physical light values, as well as color management through Filmic Blender and the Exposure slider.
This ...
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How to make physically accurate silver in Cycles?
I need extremely accurate representation of real world silver in my curren project.
We can approximate "close enought" in cycles, but this time i need it to be accurate.
Other commercial rendering ...
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Creating Realistic Close up Sand Material
I am trying to create a scene of a close up realistic sand. Here are a couple of photos I found online of real sand, and I would like to create similar result in Blender.
http://flashwallpapers.com/...
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help with procedural wispy / pulled apart cotton-like material
I'm having a little trouble creating a material similar to the fabric part in the following pictures:
This is what my node tree is currently looking like:
Here's what my rendering is currently ...
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Light emitted through a translucent plastic material [duplicate]
I often see hallway lights or street signs made from translucent plastic shapes inside of which is a light. The light doesn't spread through the thicker parts of the plastic, and some angles are ...
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How to create a semi transparent plastic shader?
I'd like to create a semi transparent plastic cycles material to match the material from this reference:
My current node setup
First rendering
Any suggestion or help on that topic, what's ...
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How to create photo-realistic complex plastic material in Cycles?
I want to create a plastic material with proper bump and reflection. Something similar to the first image. For bump I used Voronoi texture, but I am having trouble adding small silver dots. And I am ...
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Cycles and nodes, trying to use Diffuse BSDF as color source for Glossy/Subsurf Scattering BSDFs.. not working
I am trying to achieve a photo-realistic splash of liquid akin to orange juice and have tried my hand at it, and referred to a quick tutorial (node setup photo, actually) for how to setup the nodes ...
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Custom fresnel curve
When it comes to recreating the shading of metals like chromium with such extreme reflection curves it's obviously inaccurate using one averaged reflectance curve. Also eye-balling the values appears ...
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How to make realistic soda can label?
I have this nice soda can:
I want to put a label on it, so I did some research:
On the press, four (up to six) different ink rollers supply the colors that will coat the individual printer plates....
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How do I create a test room for modeling and simulations?
How do I create a low poly room with one door and one window in clean white style that looks nice.
I want to have a clean testing room to mainly test simulations in and also test materials for models....
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Create a realistic puddle?
I'm creating a scene involving a spilled Nuka-Cola bottle. Here's how it looks:
The puddle on the ground looks too.. smooth. I would like it too look a little bit more noisy and realistic. Changing ...
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