simple flower

Vampyre · Post by **Vampyre** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 12:05 am

any suggestions on this are welcome. i actually modeled and instanced about 15,000 pollen spores but they are too small. I think imma have to redo them. does anyone know of a good SSS setting for the green stems? right now they are just specular, but they should be sort of a cream i think?

SmartDen · Post by **SmartDen** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 12:29 am

nice
but a little bit too diffuse. try to add some phong reflections

Kram1032 · Post by **Kram1032** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 1:26 am

O.o
wow, great!
yeah, I guess, cream is the correct colour

Vampyre · Post by **Vampyre** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 8:45 am

I'm guessing that you mean specular on the flower petals? I think it could do with a bit more, the bump map doesn't show at all as it is.

i'm trying now to redo the stamen, but i am having a tough time with it. I think that i'm taking the wrong approach all together with modeling.. here is what i have so far. The top is part of the reference photo i'm using, the bottom is my sad attempt at making a cg version. The material on the pollen spores is sss.

As for modeling, i think im gonna try using displacement and a texture map..

but that still doesn't help me with the material. as you can see in the photo light should glow through round the edges of the pollen and i can't figure out how to do that. I've tried transparent diffuse, SSS, and various blended materials. My guess is that i can use SSS for this but i suck at figuring out the correct settings. any suggestions?

Kram1032 · Post by **Kram1032** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 8:49 am

The problem is that those pollen are quite porous. Hard to simulate in Indigo... they're more or less filled with tiny bubbles, which might have a great impact on the scattering...

And your colour currently also doesn't match. I guess, a lot more blue and a bit more green absorption doesn't harm

they're quite orange

Vampyre · Post by **Vampyre** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 9:08 am

i noticed that when i was putting together the preview.. Yeah it almost looks like pach fuzz around the pollen in the photo, im really wishing indigo had a minnaert shader.

Vampyre · Post by **Vampyre** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 1:13 am

so i gave up on trying to do the stamina the right way, and i just used the gimp to soften them up.

Kram1032 · Post by **Kram1032** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 3:28 am

actually looks kinda realistic

Vanessa07 · Post by **Vanessa07** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 4:27 am

Sweet...

The land on the right would be nice and more realistic with other flowers or trees, no?

doublez · Post by **doublez** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:22 am

It looks good, even though it might not be "right".

BbB · Post by **BbB** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:32 am

Yes. I'm convinced by it. You nailed this one I think.

matt · Post by **matt** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 2:43 pm

Is that a diffuse transmitter for the petals?

Vampyre · Post by **Vampyre** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 12:54 am

thanks alot for all the replies

Vanessa07 - your right i think, trees would be great over there.. i might drop a photo background in, no sense in modeling a high detail forest if its just gonna get blurred all to heck and back

matt - yes and no. its a blend material, half diffuse transmitter, half specular

simple flower

simple flower

need SSS help

the color is pretty bad

second try

thanks for all the replies

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