Indigo Renderer Forum

I have tried for hours now to creat some sugar material like MRoz did here:
http://www.indigorenderer.com/images/gumdrops
The best I could achieve by now is this: I have used a transparent glossy material for the bears, an scattered small crstals over the surface. But I don't get this wanted sparkling effect. An ideas?

try a smaller fill light and some aperture diffraction perhaps ? Less cristals, and bigger ones too. MRoz knows ^^

already tried that, bigger cristals, smaller cristals, different lighting, different materials for the cristals....
will have to run more settings...

try to PM MRoz

What is the crystal shape, and which material is it made of?

I tried difference shapes, the actual one is just a cube with a phong material.

No phong, you need a specular such as glass with no absorption.

Or at least, if you stick to phong, use a pure black diffuse color. But specular will always look better. Because a non transparent cube face will reflect light in a single direction, while a glass-like cube will create many rereflections, similar to a diamond.

here is my next try

Like CTZn, I would say less cristals, and bigger ones

final version Thx for help and hints!

..help and mints?

lape wrote:final version

bears_f.jpg

Thx for help and hints!

sweet!