Material with sheen

[glorybound]

I have an architect who keeps asking for "more sheen", but I am not doing a good job satisfying his "sheen" needs. Do you have any tips?



The roof is the sheen part.

[glorybound]

That is a photo example he provided today.

[Neilg]

What does the image you're sending him look like?

most people who use the word sheen like that just mean polish in a general sense - as in well developed, complete and detailed. I have found that most of the time to satisfy a comment to add sheen, making the image grittier and more detailed does the job...

[glorybound]

The photo I posted has a roof with sheen. I guess I didn't explain it very well. I told him that it has a lot to do with viewing angle and what it is reflecting. The roof is black, but looks light gray and parts are really reflective.

[chicoone]

Get a sample of the material or a vendor source that you may better access how to realize it.

[Morne]

take your raw reflection channel and stick it on top of everything in PS. Then play with the opacity and blending mode. Same thing for specular channel

can stick a mask if needed for the roof

[joconnell]

Ah - a lot of this is kind of down to gradients - The specular / reflection on the roof is quite nicely fading out from strong to weak over the width of the roof - it's all to do with the angle and height that your sun object in the scene is hitting the roof at and then using the blurriness / glossiness of your spec and reflection so that you get that nice gradual falloff.

[flino2004]

in that picture the time is close to noon and the angle of the roof plus the camera..you could easy get that.

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Ask him of reference of what in his eyes is "sheen"

[MoonDoggie]

Bobby,
I think if you just decreased the "bad" and increased the "wow" of your rendering that would be better. I mean, I'm not a client, by I do speak a bit of clientese.

[glorybound]

Funny... Is there a setting for that?

Bobby,
I think if you just decreased the "bad" and increased the "wow" of your rendering that would be better. I mean, I'm not a client, by I do speak a bit of clientese.

[MoonDoggie]

You'll need a script to do it unfortunately, I have a slider setup for increasing "wow" in my script. All the way to the right is full wow.

[glorybound]

please, share

[MoonDoggie]

proprietary information only. Increasing the wow factor is a complicated process as you're aware. Just keep trying to turn down the suck and increase the wow. Good luck Bobby.

[andybot_cg]

Just increase you fresnel ior on your roof material (maybe 8.0 or higher), and maybe use a higher glossy value, like .95 or so. In some ways, that sample image looks like a bad render with too high reflectivity, and sun right behind the camera.