Wacky Modelling ~ In Carrara ~

Persona Non Grata

Change of camera view, new rotations of the red and green bulbs and a plinth morphing (it has 5 to choose from...)

Persona Non Grata

Creating columns...

 

The model...

 

Test render using SSS shader...

Mistara

i see chess piece 

Persona Non Grata

Which one? - LOL

WendyLuvsCatz

I see potted plants on top

chickenman

I just see a bunch of table legs

 

Persona Non Grata

And now for something completely different...

 

Just discovered Carrara will allow you to use reflection maps... Here's a simple voronoi I created for use as a map

 

Here's the rendered text using the above map

 

Other maps created and used for differing effects

 

Persona Non Grata

Further experiments reveal that the colour channel willl affect the final render along with the bump channel, etc...

 

WendyLuvsCatz

back in the Poser days, many older items had reflection maps

Persona Non Grata

Yes, it's a game engine technique that I didn't know Carrara would support - makes for quick and dirty metals...

Diomede

Thanks for the reminder, PNG, and excellent examples.  Many of those old Poser reflection maps would still be useful without adjustment.  For example, you can see in this screengrab of the contents of my old Poser runtime textures folder for Lady LittleFox's Penny hair, there is a perfectly useful reflection map in addition to the hair diffuse and alpha maps.  I need to remember to that these old resources are still useful.

EDIT:  Here I've applied Lady LittleFox's reflection map to the cone on the left but not the sphere on the right.

Persona Non Grata

Thanks Diomede, it's how I created the PNG logo, although I used a titling software together with a make-do reflection map not that dissimilar to the voronoi illustrated above.

 

Change in colour channel, while I'm at it...

Persona Non Grata

WendyLuvsCatz said:

I see potted plants on top

I see those pink sweets of my youth, shaped like prawns and tasting of gummy marshmallow... Takes me back...

Persona Non Grata

Further experimentation...

 

Test scene using raytraced reflections as a 'control.;

Resultant reflection map using a spherical camera

 

Centre object now using a reflectionmap provided by spherical camera (it's somewhat duller than expected, though I suspect this might be resolved by applying gamma correction to the spherical rendering process???)

 

Time for experimentation...

Mistara

have yet to discover a plain old dirt procedural.

like pots lines, plain old telephone

Philemo_Carrara

Baked reflection maps of this kind are not supposed to go in the reflection channel at all, but in the glow channel. The idea at the time wais to avoid to cast any ray to get the reflection. You can make superfast rendering of blurred reflections using this technique.

Using a color map in the reflection intensity channel has 2 effects : 

• The greyscale value will control the amount of reflectivity
• The color value tints the result of the reflection (as metals usually do).

Persona Non Grata said:

Yes, it's a game engine technique that I didn't know Carrara would support - makes for quick and dirty metals...

Persona Non Grata

Philemo_Carrara said:

Baked reflection maps of this kind are not supposed to go in the reflection channel at all, but in the glow channel.

That's very interesting, but it doesn't work in Carrara. Nor does putting the reflection map directly in the reflection channel either - that's not the way I did it...

 

A simple 6-legged model and GMIC render...

 

The model (deformed using bones)

 

A really child-like painterly render using GMIC plugin (thanks to Philemot)

Steve K

 

 

A simple 6-legged model and GMIC render...

Maybe add six heads?

Persona Non Grata

Building scenes using a replicator and a few simple vertex models...

 

The simple models...

 

The simple render...

mschack

Nice!  Did you extract a curve from the ceiling to make the arch?

I am waiting for Gandalf to come running past...

Persona Non Grata

Yes I did extract a curve to make the arch

Persona Non Grata

..Change of ies and added morphing bulb (the rose will move up and down the wire to fit ceiling correctly)

 

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Another change of ies and a boned plane with quick two-sided shader...

 

Mistara

i love ies lights.

Persona Non Grata

Having fun with an irridescent shader idea...

 

Shader tree..

 

Simple render...

mschack

I like Shader Ops 'Fake Fresnel' too, and it is fast.

Mistara

really lovely shaders.

i never noticed fake fresnel

Stezza

Countdown to ANZAC Day ( next month )

let's do some wacky modelling... this is my wacky bugle from WWI ( Gallipoli ) the diggers would pump out their tune

 

 

Steve K

I'm watching a series of lectures about Victorian England, the lecture this morning was about democracy in late 19th century England (spoiler: not everybody was for it).  This came up:

"On 19 September 1893 the governor, Lord Glasgow, signed a new Electoral Act into law. As a result of this landmark legislation, New Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world in which women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections.  In most other democracies – including Britain and the United States – women did not win the right to the vote until after the First World War. New Zealand’s world leadership in women’s suffrage became a central part of our image as a trail-blazing ‘social laboratory’. "

https://nzhistory.govt.nz/politics/womens-suffrage

So a tip of the Mounted Rifle hat to the Kiwis.  

Persona Non Grata

Great little model Stezza!

Thought I'd have a go at bending a copper pipe too...

 

The model...

 

The simple render...