Lantern WIP

[Will Gibbons]

Modeled this because I thought it'd be fun to learn more about light materials in KS. Upon opening up the lantern I referenced for this, I got excited to see how the light emitted from the LEDs are reflected and dispersed thought the various textures on the clear plastic. I wanted to see how it all worked in KeyShot.

I've got some details to refine on the model as well as some more renderings to do in order to show the various lenses inside. Having fun with it though. Downside: Render time... the first two (with lights on and various lenses) took 4 hours each with a decent machine. I down the samples and I'm left with white noise. I'll include that as well for reference.

cheers

[guest81576]

Very cool!

[richardfunnell]

+1 those look really nice is the ribbed surface of the glass modeled?

[slater]

Really good work, and light experiment...thumb up!!

[feher]

If you really want to see the light you have to darken the scene. That will give the illusion of the lamp being on. Also I would recommend rendering in 32bit. You will have so much more color infomation in the image to play with.
Tim

[Will Gibbons]

Thanks for the compliments all!

[Will Gibbons]

+1 those look really nice is the ribbed surface of the glass modeled?

Nope Keyshot : )

I broke each lens that needed a different texture into different surfaces by applying surface colors in SW, then just used the wavy /ribbed glass in KeyShot and adjusted as necessary.

[Will Gibbons]

If you really want to see the light you have to darken the scene. That will give the illusion of the lamp being on. Also I would recommend rendering in 32bit. You will have so much more color infomation in the image to play with.
Tim

Right on. I did a few others that I didn't post that gave more of an illuminated effect. I didn't try the 32bit though, and now that you suggest it, it seems like a no-brainer. Will do that for sure. Thanks!

Really good work, and light experiment...thumb up!!

I appreciate it Slater!

[gomesh1977]

Very nice. I have yet to try to illuminated material like this.  Good one.

[Will Gibbons]

So, I modeled out some details and threw it back into KS. Digging how it looks... for the most part.

- I certainly can reduce the texture on the rubber a tad bit.
- The chrome on the handle may be blown out a bit.
- Could use some more interesting lighting on the scene.


The curious thing is that when working with this model, my machine was down to anywhere between .9 and 4 fps. Is that normal when working with 4 layers of textured glass and area diffuse light? [hex core, 12 cores total, 4.5ghz, i7, 16gb ram]

When I bundled the KSP, it ends up being a whopping 270mb... more than a quarter gig... is that normal? Saving took quite a while too. Maybe 30 seconds to save, 1 min. to bundle.

Also, I rendered as 32bit Tiff... If I wanted to edit the images with Camera Raw, should I have rendered as 32bit PSD?

Thoughts?

Thanks everyone.

[Rex]

Are the glass ridges modeled or a bump map?

[Will Gibbons]

Are the glass ridges modeled or a bump map?

Bump.

In the center are 4 LEDs with light material applied, then a plastic dome around those, then a cone-shaped lens with bump map, then a cylindrical piece that encompasses all those with bump applied, then a final layer of glass around that.

In short, 4 layers of transparent materials with bumps applied to 2 of them. Is that the issue?

Thanks.

[slater]

Good work man, the last pic is really a good one , and as tim feher  Always tell to a good work..is a keeper on my book!
thumb up!

[Rex]

Are the glass ridges modeled or a bump map?

Bump.

In the center are 4 LEDs with light material applied, then a plastic dome around those, then a cone-shaped lens with bump map, then a cylindrical piece that encompasses all those with bump applied, then a final layer of glass around that.

In short, 4 layers of transparent materials with bumps applied to 2 of them. Is that the issue?

Thanks.

Yeah the layered transparent materials along with the texture maps are causing the low fps.

[Will Gibbons]

Thanks Rex, that makes sense.