Doing the Dishes... a WIP

[eclark1894]

Special thatnks to ghostship for helping me work out the refraction and shader on the wine. Best render I've done to date, bar none.

 

[eclark1894]

Got thirsty working on this wine glass this weekend so last night I had to whip up a bottle of wine to go with. Gotta figure out how to texture that cork though.

 

[eclark1894]

Hmm, still thirsty.

 

[Miss B]

Looking good Earl. Maybe Ghostship can help with the cork texture.

Then you'll have to come up with a nice texture for the labels.

Hmmmm, I just took a closer look at the cork Earl, and it seems as though the portion that's stuck inside the bottle top looks good. Can you extend that texture, whatever it is, to the portion of the cork that's outside the bottle?

 

[eclark1894]

I actually managed to download both a texture map and a normal map for the cork. I added the texture map, but I have to look up how to add the normal map.

Actually, adding the normal map's not a problem in Poser, but I'm not sure how to add it in Blender.

 

[Miss B]

Ohh, good point. I don't do final rendering in Blender, so haven't a clue either where a Normal map would go, other than it would be "instead" of a Bump map, if that helps at all.

 

[Pendraia]

Most bottles of wine in Australia have caps these days even the really expensive ones. That might be easier to texture than a cork.

 

[eclark1894]

Most bottles of wine in Australia have caps these days even the really expensive ones. That might be easier to texture than a cork.

Yeah, i know. I stopped off in a store this morning and looked, but I just like the appeal of the cork.

 

[Pendraia]

Cool...just wanted to give you another option in case the cork didn't work out how you wanted.

 

[Miss B]

Also, Earl, corks are what folks use AFTER the bottle's open, so you might want to consider both a cap and a cork. That gives folks more options.

 

[eclark1894]

Exported and rendered in Poser using Superfly.

 

[Gadget Girl]

Looking good. Not sure if it's the same texture for the wine itself, but I think it looks better in this render than the ones with the grey backgrounds above, of course that could also be the lighting.

 

[Miss B]

Yes, these are looking really nice Earl.

 

[eclark1894]

Looking good. Not sure if it's the same texture for the wine itself, but I think it looks better in this render than the ones with the grey backgrounds above, of course that could also be the lighting.

Like you say, it could be a number of things. I tried to keep the Cycles setups equal, but I had to use some Poser nodes in place of some Cycles nodes. For example, I had to use a Poser Blender node instead of a Mix shader node on the wine since Poser doesn't have a Mix shader. It has a MixClosure Node, but that's not the same thing.

 

[eclark1894]

I'm all over the place, but I am making stuff. Made this wristwatch for Dawn. Started just before the hurricane started. Just finished up tonight.

 

[Miss B]

Looks nice Earl.

 

[eclark1894]

This is a better render. Took all night. I did not illuminate the watch dial in this render though.

 

[Gadget Girl]

Made this wristwatch for Dawn.

Nice watch. Just a thought though. I am a woman with tiny, tiny, wrists, and I stopped wearing watches for a long time because I couldn't find watches with bands small enough to be comfortable (unless I went with a Disney princess watch). I look at the first image you posted of the watch, and the loosens in the band just makes my wrist hurt because that's exactly the kind of fit which would cause watches to bump painfully against the end of my arm bone.

Now actually the fit looks really comfortable in the second shot, but you may want to consider either tightening the fit, or adding an option to make it tighter.

I know this might seem a little knit picky, but you haven no idea what a trial it was when I would try and find a watch that fit, and I eventually gave up, until the Apple Watch came out, and I was so thrilled they had bands that could be adjusted to fit me comfortably.

 

[eclark1894]

Hmm, either you're saying you want a morph to make it fit even closer to the wrist or you want a buckle or something. Well, the buckle's already there, so... if you're talking about a morph, I'm opposed to it. I made the watch to fit Dawn's wrist, but the watch is also meant to fit Pauline's, Roxie, or Anastasia's wrist by fiddling with the size translation dials. Now, there's also the idea of just including a morph fit for the wrists of each of those figures. Is that a better idea for you?

 

[Miss B]

I'm liking that render a lot Earl, especially Dawn's pose.