Tranlucent materials

[stevesideas]

Are translucent materials in the Vrayscans library? I couldn't see them in the download area but have seen a video showing this as available.

[Ivaylo Katev]

yes, but the feature is relatively new and as i see only three fabrics have translucency, perhaps we have to rescan the fabrics to make them translucent

[Ivaylo Katev]

edit: actually there are many fabrics in the library that are translucent, but apparently they are not tagged as translucent, for example this one https://download.chaosgroup.com/vrsc...ic-blue-perf-s

[stevesideas]

I was very interested in the ability to use Vrayscans for leaf materials as shown here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxbY8cKRqK8

[Ivaylo Katev]

well, we can add some leafs to the library

[stevesideas]

That would be great.

[chadstevens]

Has any Leaf materials been added? Can't seem to find them in the library.

Cheers.

[dinko.dimitrov]

Hi,

You can download a sample scene and sample materials from here:

https://docs.chaosgroup.com/display/...3ds+Max+Scenes

Cheers,
Dinko

[chadstevens]

Thanks for the link, that's really cool.

Cheers.

[jonnybefree]

Hi there,
what about scanning slices of small fruits or Veggies like lemon, pickle and such?
would it be doable? I have a request for such a job and scanning these slices would save days of work!

[Ivaylo Katev]

I think it's doable, we have two translucent material types, "flat" - like leafs, fabrics and other sheet-like materials, and volumetric - like translucent plastic, wax, resin...
The volumetric translucent mode is exactly what you need, it behaves like the SSS Vray materials, but with all the benefits of the vrscans. I will try to dig out some images to show how it looks

[Ivaylo Katev]

here is an example. the material can be non homogenous as well, but oi have no good example here, that is not under NDA.

[MANUEL_MOUSIOL]

Oooohhhh, would love to get my hands on this. We need more materials like that. Innovation!

[jonnybefree]

nice! But i wonder is it volumetric 3d mapped then?
Like in the lemon example its very important to have the 3d structure inside the cells. Not only 2d mapped

[Ivaylo Katev]

It's 2d mapped only, but for translucent materials the result is pretty good, because you can't see throught them, they are not transparent.
Our devices are designed to capture translucency, not transparency, except near to full transparency (to handle the materials with holes).
But no need to guess, we just can try to scan a slice of lemon and see the result