A Place to lay my head...

[Seliah (Childe of Fyre)]

Back to the actual subject of this thread for a moment... can anyone tell me how to match or at least approximate this look of the floor in DS?

In DS, select the floor prop, then go to Surfaces tab.

In Surfaces, expand the list of mat zones (to the left side of all the sliders), and select the floor material zone. Selected mat zones will highlight in yellow.

Set Reflection Strength somewhere between 75-85%.

Set Reflection Color to white.

(In order for reflections to show up when rendered in 3Delight, you must have lights loaded in the scene, and something for the floor to reflect. Dawn or Dusk, for instance.)

Edit: You can also set specular colors to varying shades of white/greys and adjust specular strength as well, to help with the glossy appearance. Note that these steps are for using the default (dzDefault) shader on the floor surface.

Sorry, I can't grab you any screenshots. I still haven't had a chance to reinstall my 3D programs on the new HD yet.

 

[eclark1894]

In DS, select the floor prop, then go to Surfaces tab.

In Surfaces, expand the list of mat zones (to the left side of all the sliders), and select the floor material zone. Selected mat zones will highlight in yellow.

Set Reflection Strength somewhere between 75-85%.

Set Reflection Color to white.

(In order for reflections to show up when rendered in 3Delight, you must have lights loaded in the scene, and something for the floor to reflect. Dawn or Dusk, for instance.)

Sorry, I can't grab you any screenshots. I still haven't had a chance to reinstall my 3D programs on the new HD yet.

This is in addition to adding the texture and bump map?

 

[Seliah (Childe of Fyre)]

This is in addition to adding the texture and bump map?

Yes. Apply all your image maps (texture, bump, spec, normals, etc, and their strength values) and then set reflection and specular strength/colors. Have a light or two loaded into the scene as well.

This is how I achieved the glossy appearance to the floor in this render : https://community.hivewire3d.com/media/hannah-moonriver-family-photo.820/

I only had my reflection strength set to about 35% for that render, as I didn't want the viewer's eye to get too distracted with the reflections. You will most likely need to do a few test renders until you have a reflection strength that you're happy with.

 

[eclark1894]

Does DS have raytracing? Does it need to be on if it does?

 

[eclark1894]

Does DS have raytracing? Does it need to be on if it does?

I'm still doing a little texturing work on the teaset tonight, but tomorrow (or maybe tonight before I go to bed, I see if I can get a poser scene into DS. (Or at least the floor prop.)

 

[Lorraine]

Raytraced shadows? You need to turn them on in your light's parameters.

 

[Miss B]

Raytraced shadows? You need to turn them on in your light's parameters.

Yes, IIRC, it's in the Parameters where you can choose Raytraced or Deep Shadow maps.

 

[Gadget Girl]

Having issues with the teacup and sugar bowl. Otherwise, what do you think of this willow pattern for a tea set?

These look great. I like this sort of china set, not too busy but still decorative. The tray also looks great, and I like the slice of lemon.

 

[eclark1894]

Okay, Imported the floor prop into DS and will start trying to get everything sorted out there. In the meantime, I finished the tea set last night except for applying texture sets. I'm having an issue with the teacup which I can't quite figure out. As you can see, the texture on the teacup seems to be bleeding through to the inside. I'm thinking I need to redo the texture map on that. I also need to redo the texture map on the wood tray. Funny thing is I actually LIKE the way it's textured right now, but that was a total accident with the grain running two ways. Gotta fix that because even though I do like it, someone's going to complain about it. Also had to slice a thicker lemon slice.

 

[phdubrov]

Like the pattern on teaset!

 

[Lorraine]

It's nice, Earl, and you can buy teacups with a pattern inside them. It's always only the teacup, I guess because you see inside it as you drink your tea.

 

[eclark1894]

Like the pattern on teaset!

Thanks. Interestingly enough, I did it because Pen wanted a Willow pattern and so far she's the only one who hasn't commented on it.

 

[English Bob]

... the texture on the teacup seems to be bleeding through to the inside.

I suspect you probably UV mapped the cup after the inside was modelled. If you use a projection method (UVMapper's cylindrical map for example) the inside will occupy the same area of the map as the outside, so the same texture will show on both.

You can either assign a different material to the inside, or you can re-map so that the inside and outside occupy separate areas on the map. There would be more than one way to do this depending on what tools you have available.

 

[eclark1894]

I suspect you probably UV mapped the cup after the inside was modelled. If you use a projection method (UVMapper's cylindrical map for example) the inside will occupy the same area of the map as the outside, so the same texture will show on both.

You can either assign a different material to the inside, or you can re-map so that the inside and outside occupy separate areas on the map. There would be more than one way to do this depending on what tools you have available.

Not what happened. But I did have to re-map.

 

[Gadget Girl]

I'm having an issue with the teacup which I can't quite figure out. As you can see, the texture on the teacup seems to be bleeding through to the inside.

I like the tea cup having the texture on the inside, although I understand if you want to figure out why it happened that way. As Lorraine said lots of teacups have the patterns on the inside also.

 

[eclark1894]

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I like the tea cup having the texture on the inside, although I understand if you want to figure out why it happened that way. As Lorraine said lots of teacups have the patterns on the inside also.

Umm, too late. I fixed the problem this morning before scurrying out the door for work. Sorry.

 

[eclark1894]

Next texture?

 

[Miss B]

I like that Earl. Nice delicate flowers always look good on a delicate style teacup.

 

[Seliah (Childe of Fyre)]

I love both of these textures! They're gorgeous!

 

[phdubrov]

Simple and exellent texture.