Volumetric Lighting using the Cloudy Plastic

[Esben Oxholm]

Hi!
A test of creation some kind of volumetric lighting effect by nesting the model inside a sphere with the cloudy plastic material applied (inspired by a post on slack by Søren). The scene is light by an IES light only.

It was a bit hard to control the look of the 'fog' as the scene res'ed up quit slowly on my macbook.
Anyway, I think this has potential with some more tweaking.

[Despot]

Cool, so the sphere is acting as the fog volume and the IES light is kind of acting like a targeted spotlight ?

I like it, isn't the tech behind cloudy plastics going to be used to drive volumetrics in a future version of KS ?

[Esben Oxholm]

Cool, so the sphere is acting as the fog volume and the IES light is kind of acting like a targeted spotlight ?

Yup, right on!

[INNEO_MWo]

Good result Esben!

I've played with this idea as well. But I placed the IES source inside a block with cloudy plastic.
[size=78%]The white spots (or fireflies) was killing the scene. So no luck.[/size]


Will you share your scene (maybe without the statue)?




Thanks!
Marco

[Josh3D]

Looks GREAT, Esben. Lots of cool stuff to try with this!

[Will Gibbons]

Yeah man, excited to see this. Played with it a bit, but haven't rendered anything yet!

[Magnus Skogsfjord]

This is pure awesomeness! Looking forward to seeing you push this.

[DriesV]

Looks cool!

This approach is indeed a bit slow to render. We are working on a dedicated material for these kind of volumetric effects.

Dries