help with material

V-Ray V-Ray for 3ds Max General
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Hello All!

I’ve got a pendant fixture that needs to look like this.

I’ve been trying out a few different material/lights but not quite there yet.

I’ve looked around/searched more than I have time to, so does anyone have suggestions for a material for the big glass disc? Thanks. I’ve attached a reference image (photo.) (I did many searches and looked at vraymaterials-de.)

Thanks a lot,
JR

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getting closer, I think…

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looks pretty good, maybe it needs a little stronger reflection on the chrome, mirror like with fresnel and falloff map might help.

i think the disc looks a bit too transparent in the second image, maybe you could add refraction with some green fog in it?

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Thanks kingmar, is this getting better?
Funny about the metal, as the mfr calls out circular brushed SS, but their photo lloks like chrome.

Thanks again,
JR

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It looks like it would be fairly opaque so why not just map an opaque disc with a vraylight material using a gradient witht the colors you want. Set the disc to not cast shadows and to not be visible to gi.

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dlparisi, actually, it might be like you described. I have it as a Blend material. One is the glass and the other is the vraylighmtrl with a gradient ramp map going from white to greenish. I will try your suggestion for not casting shadows and not to visible to GI.

Thanks a lot!

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the disc is a lot better, good idea to use lightmat with gradient
HDR’s produce great reflections, maybe one in the reflection slot? then again, you might have problems with the window reflections…