Second Vray project: Coke test

[simmsimaging]

Hi all.

My second test of Vray. I was also testing the "Smart IBL" script/plugin on this one (seems pretty handy, but still had to set some stuff up by hand)

A lot of postwork in photoshop (background, drops on ground, DOF, colour work etc), but I'm really happy with what I am able to get out of Vray. No news to anyone here, but it's a huge relief to me!

C&C welcomed.

[ene.xis]

top noth!
congratulations!

[maxer]

very nice.
can u please say a little more about the(great looking)waterdrops?

greets maxer

[zoranm]

Great work. Probably the best water drops I've seen so far.
The only thing wich bothered me a bit is the background. The whole shot suggests a studio setup and that sky should be something more neutral.
As Maxer said, could you give some more info about the water drops?

Great work, mate

Zoran

[simmsimaging]

Thanks ene.xis, maxer and zoran!

The water drops are done with Vray displacement using a map that I made from a Zbrush model. I have been trying for a year to get good water drops/sweat using all kinds of methods, and finally bit the bullet and we did it that way. We spent a couple of days worth of time (here and there between projects) and sculpted a set of probably 300-400 droplets in Zbrush and generated a D.map out of that, which I then adjusted in Photoshop to make it tileable and clean it up. I have made a few variants out of that with more or less droplets.

To add them in the scene I just duplicated the can and applied the Vray disp. mod to the clone. By using the water level function (which I love btw) I was able to get this result. This approach works really well in Vray due to the way the interfaces work for dielectrics - very easy for a change I used the same approach and basic maps for the MGD bottle I posted the other day.

Thanks for the feedback guys - appreciate it!

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[stevesideas]

Cool image. I like the method used.

Do you have issues with zbrush displacement maps and vray displacement. I cant seem to get any good results. Any tips would be appreciated

[simmsimaging]

Cool image. I like the method used.

Do you have issues with zbrush displacement maps and vray displacement. I cant seem to get any good results. Any tips would be appreciated

Thanks.
I am not a power user by any means; I just used the MRGBz grabber to generate an alpha of the droplets, and used that for my basic d.map. Works fine for what I was doing here, but I haven't tried to go beyond that yet. I used the same map a few different times now and I have tried both 2d and 3D Vray displacement without seeing much real difference. I used the Vray bitmap filter once and the basic Max bitmap shader and didn't see any difference there either. Maybe I just got lucky

Sorry I couldn't be more help.

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[werticus]

You should post that displacement map at http://www.vray-materials.de/
So you can spread the love :P Then we can have 'wet' week on the vray forums!

[voltron7]

Great lighting and well, everything!

[jonnybefree]

nice done mate! best drops i've seen so far! (agree about the env. though)

[VKNT]

Amazing work!
And thank you for sharing your droplets technique.

[visumporec]

Nicely done, perfect!
Would you please show us pure vray render without post work?
Thanks

[DrJan]

You should post that displacement map at http://www.vray-materials.de/
So you can spread the love :P Then we can have 'wet' week on the vray forums!

YES! Please do!
I've been working on a scene with waterdrops myself, but couldn't get the drops right
Your render looks amazing, especially the waterdrops! Although I probably would've used a little less drops.

[stevesideas]

Thanks.
I am not a power user by any means; I just used the MRGBz grabber to generate an alpha of the droplets, and used that for my basic d.map. Works fine for what I was doing here, but I haven't tried to go beyond that yet. I used the same map a few different times now and I have tried both 2d and 3D Vray displacement without seeing much real difference. I used the Vray bitmap filter once and the basic Max bitmap shader and didn't see any difference there either. Maybe I just got lucky

Sorry I couldn't be more help.

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Thanks for the info anyway Keep up the good work

[simmsimaging]

Thanks Jonas, werticus, voltron7, VKNT, visumporec, DrJan!

Here is the RGB pass. I rendered in passes and comped a few elements together as well so there really isn't "one" raw render - but the passes were more for details so this is pretty close to being one:



As for the map: sorry guys, but I'm not quite ready to let that one go just yet. It represents a pretty crazy amount of work - it's more like asking me for a model than a material in this case. I've been pretty free with my materials with other engines and intend to share most of what I do - but this one is staying with me for now

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