Sugar Material

[Spinoza]

has any of the vray material experts tried to make a good looking material for sugar?

i tried it with translucent but my results are crap, to be honest.

[RErender]

Some refraction and fog should do it

[Psy]

What exactly does sugar look like? I'm looking at what I'm about to eat, and it looks just like salt.

Here's some IOR's:
Sodium Chloride (Salt) 1 .... 1.544
Sodium Chloride (Salt) 2 .... 1.644
Sugar Solution (30%) ........ 1.38
Sugar Solution (80%) ........ 1.49

Solution is liqud form, but salt is basically like sugar I think.

[Spinoza]

sorry, i forget to mention that it is for a close up of a sugar cube.

refraction + fog just don´t do it for me.

[egz]

Add a particle system emitting from a cube to that equation and you should start getting some results.

[586]

egz's right. Don't forget that sugar has a cubic crystalline structure which is more or less randomly fused together (I'm not a chemist, so no knocks on my description). The crystals themselves are cubes which have refractive qualities.

[Long John]

if you want to render this particle system with refractive material and fog how long will it take?

i don´t know how to do it but is there no easyer way to do it with displacement?

[PixelJockey]

How about something like this using SSS and a noise displacement map?

[Long John]

looks great!
i would like that material can you make it downloadable??

[J_Bug]

Good job PixelJockey

Looks great!

--Jon

[PixelJockey]

No problem..... Here you go. Actually it's just a modified scene created by Vlado to demonstrate SSS. I just made the box a chamfered box, fiddled with the material and added the displacement map.

sugar.zip - it's a Max 4.26 model.

[Long John]

thanks!

[Spinoza]

thanks from me too!!

[R2J2]

nice work PixelJockey I'm wordering if the shadows are too dark. I'm guessing that the light gets really scattered through the cubes & so the shadows are softer.

[Long John]

i don´ t think so.
i look on a real one right now and it looks the same.

now he will be pushed into my coffee.