CONTEST!!! design a material preview scene

eman7613 · Post by **eman7613** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 2:15 pm

just needs to be hollow on the inside and im happy with it

Zsolt · Post by **Zsolt** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 12:00 am

Oh, it looks like I'm late, I wasn't near an internet connection in the past week... could you please post deadlines for such future contests in advance? Thanks!

Anyways, I'll post mine if that's not a problem:

It has round as well as flat surfaces, the left part is hollow, there are two thinner parts at the right. Plus its UV mapped properly.

Here's a totally diffuse material with a wood texture:

Radiance: your preview: the floor would be better off without the thousands of "Indigo renderer" texts. Maybe add a simple cylindrical base, as the object seems a bit "unstable", I'd expect it to roll over. And the grey band occupies a large part of the front of the material. Imho changing these would result in a very good preview!

joegiampaoli · Post by **joegiampaoli** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 10:56 am

I like Radiance's material preview because it has both sharp and round edges and it's a simple object to work with. Repeated squares on ground plane are ok with me, maybe something more numeric like a ruler type of grid to get pretty much an idea of the real scale of textures.

joegiampaoli · Post by **joegiampaoli** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 2:10 pm

radiance wrote:here's my blend file:

http://www.indigorenderer.com/temp/mat_preview.blend

feel free to play with it and suggest any modifications.
the 0.61 exporter script is it in in the text editor
unpack and place all textures in your indigo dir offcourse.

the floor tiles is a 2x array modifier.

IMPORTANT:
in the exporter:

set resolution to 220x220 (or 440x440 and downsize in pshop)
set white balance to 'E' instead of 'D75'
set lens aperture to 0.01 to get the same slight DOF

Greetz,
radiance

So, is this it? is it the final file for us users to go ahead and make new materials to upload in the future to the material DB? or does it still need tweaking? or is there a newer version of it?

CTZn · Post by **CTZn** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 9:31 am

Oh, I would like to participate on this one !

I think Maluminas points are relevant:

Maluminas wrote:-must have a curved surface
-must have a flat surface
-must have a sharp edge
-must have thin parts and thick parts (for SSS, double sides and absorption)
-must have a part where you can see a reflection of the material on itself
-Must have an easy XML to edit-in the mats (so the model should be .3ds so that you just have to set a path instead of having a bazillion vertex/triangle coord lines)
-the light setup has to be simple but effective
-as fast as possible to render
-must have a unique look for Indigo
-has to be sexy

This has been discussed in CGTalk and illustrated with maestria.

Actually I find your one by far the sexiest, Radiance (including in comparison with Maxwell's one), but technically speaking I'm not sure it complies totally with the requesties... please don't take me wrong, no offense here

And... I'm joining the competition

I hope I'll put smthing here within 1 week...

Zom-B · Post by **Zom-B** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 12:30 pm

I just found this link at BlenderNation: CG Sphere

Some very funny and interesting Material Test Models

CTZn · Post by **CTZn** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 10:07 pm

So this is the place to be

I did that, say it's a rough:

Please drop a word (or more submissions of yours) !

PureSpider · Post by **PureSpider** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 11:38 pm

*casts resurrect topic!*
I've also tried to create a mat preview scene, that's what I've come up with so far...
Note that the one with the grid is the newer one

pixie · Post by **pixie** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 9:13 am

Nice!

Pinko5 · Post by **Pinko5** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 7:25 pm

Very good PureSpider!!!
Luca.

PureSpider · Post by **PureSpider** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 2:43 am

thanks

matsta · Post by **matsta** » Thu May 08, 2008 8:06 am

hey guys.

sweet to see this got revived. so now i wont have to do it again

just had a quick session and came up with this. obviously the renders need more time but hey

all renders were roughly 10 minutes on 2 threads.

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pixie · Post by **pixie** » Thu May 08, 2008 8:08 am

We've got a winner!

matsta · Post by **matsta** » Thu May 08, 2008 9:15 am

haha gonna give these an over nighter and post back tommorow. thanks alot pixie

Azazeo · Post by **Azazeo** » Sat May 10, 2008 3:42 am

yes, radiance's scene realy great

CONTEST!!! design a material preview scene

Which entry whould be selected as our new default material view?

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