Procedural marble

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Naa, this didn’t turn out the way I’d like. five (5!) blender crashes later, loosing some of the work on the wooden surrounding frame… NOT really marble is it… :expressionless:

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Revenge on the half-failed marble, here is a procedural plank that’s not entirely to clean :slight_smile:

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hi, i really like your scenes and objects. I wonder ambient color (blue like your chess scene and yellowish in plank scene), how can i do that? is it about only lamp? :face_with_raised_eyebrow: thanks. :grinning:

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Wow! These look really good! Can I ask how you made it look so real? My renders looked nothing like this :joy:

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I cheat :slight_smile:

Instead of using blender render as instructed I use Cycles. If I remember correctly you will be introduced to Cycles render in a few lessons… Learning from Blender Guru on YouTube and a few others I also apply a couple of techniques related to photo-realism.

Look at it as a preview of what you will learn in this course :smiley:

Oh, and the plank is an experiment I did with procedural wood, basically applying fractals (mathematical textures) to the wood grain, surface structure and dirt, in several layers. If I had half the talent for Sculpting that I have for the Cycles Materials I would be happy. Still struggling there…

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First of all I cheat since I use Cycles before introduced in the course… sorry.

In the chess board I use the world settings to give a blue tint, and a spotlight.

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In the plank I have default gray world but lights and reflection from the ‘floor’ is yellowish. Cycles Engine give this a better result than Blender Engine.

A good way to get natural colors is to use the Blackbody converter to set the color-temperature on the lights.

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This is available in Cycles and you will learn about that later in the course. I just happened to know this before…

Oh, just saw something, can you see him? Darth Vader hiding in the shadows…

Funny how the mind works…

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thank you for reply, i tried that, it doesnt like yours but i had fun.

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Don’t worry, you will get there.

  • 3-point lighting
  • Filmic colors
  • Combining several techniques for photo-realism
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In the picture, to strong background overwhelms the lamp.
Tune down until you see the mix… :slight_smile:

… takes some practice, s’all…

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this scene looks so good @Jonas_Printzen! for an instant I thought it was in internal render :sweat_smile:
Indeed cycles over internal render is so superior which IDK why it wasn’t discontinued yet, even now w/ eevee coming soon.

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