Best material/texture for painted cabinetry?

[P A Cabinets]

Hi all,

I'm very much new to V-Ray. I've been using SU for ages, but only really feel like I'm making a bit of progress with the drawings I produce for our kitchen/bedroom cabinetry business having started using V-Ray next.

Hopefully at some point I'll be able to offer some advice to others, but for now I'm only going to be able to ask questions, I'd imagine!

The drawings I'm producing are very basic compared to everyone else's work on here, mainly because of my novice status but also as I'm using a Mac and can only get away with fairly "light" drawings until I sort a new hardware setup.

My first question... Almost all of the cabinetry we produce is painted/shaker style in-frame kitchens. Currently I'm just using generic colours from SU to "paint" the cabinets, but this gives such a flat texture it's the first thing that makes the image seem a bit rookey.

Can anyone suggest a means of giving it a slight texture/bump to make it a more realistic hand-finish?

Obviously any criticism or guidance relating to any other aspects with the attached image are gratefully received... it's the only way I'm going to learn!!!

Thanks so much for any help!

Pete

[georgi.georgiev]

Hi,

You could check the Quick Start guides on our documentations page and also the V-Ray Courseware, which covers some of the workflows with V-Ray.

Hopefully they would help you advance further with using V-Ray.

https://docs.chaosgroup.com/display/...ckStart+Guides
https://docs.chaosgroup.com/display/CWVRAY3SU

Should you require any further assistance, you are welcome to write to support@chaosgroup.com

[ValeroStudio]

"Everything has Fresnel" - kind of an inside V-Ray joke. Simply put, everything has reflection, add some. If you want to achieve some wood texture, maybe a bump map. There are lots of maps out there on the web for free and for purchase. CGAxis has a nice set of PBR materials that are pretty cheap to buy.

As for the image.
The lighting needs work. Create lighting that would mimic the real world. There is light bouncing from all kinds of places on an interior.
The camera point seems weird, like Shaq is looking down on the kitchen. Choose a real world eye levle and maybe rethink where the camera sits. I like to turn on 2-pt perspective so my verticals are straight.
I really dislike the stool that's out of place. An interior architectural photographer would never do this so that it looks more "live in". It's like all of those messy bed models. No one in marketing really likes them.
Add come ambient occlusion maybe to pop edges. Also edges in the real world are not 90 degrees so download RoundCorner or add a fake rounded edge using EdgeTex in your bump slot (you will need to google how to do this probably)

[ValeroStudio]

Here is a quick sample I just did in 2 minutes with a cabinet from Podium all with just a normal map in the bump slot and some reflection.