For this material breakdown I chose a gold material based on the material I used in my crown project.
The goal is to make a gold material, which can be seen on old jewellery exhibiting some worn look and is not the typically clean shiny gold look you get with modern jewellery.
I will start a series of material breakdowns, where I show step by step the principles of how I created the materials from the Austrian Imperial Crown.
This is by no means an absolute guide to the lux material system, but rather an insight into how I use the options given to me by lux.
Lets start with a pearl material.
Its finally done.
This project took me the better part of the last 3 weeks to finish in my spare time. It was an exercise in modeling and an exploration into the possibilities of luxrender, especially now as the new version 0.6 is almost there.
This project will form now the base for some upcoming breakdowns of several aspects mainly aimed at luxrenders material system. So stay tuned …
As always the project files are all downloadable from my 3D showroom. But one word of caution. This is a huge project in terms of needed resources during rendering. It will use up to 3.7 Gb of memory when rendered in full resolution ( 1600×2000 ). The mesh setup alone takes 1.2 Gb. This means that you must have a 64bit version of lux running to be able to actually rerender it. Just browsing it in blender should be fine with a 32 bit version as well.
During preparation of the final part of my luxrender observations I found out, that I had to learn quite some more about luxrender before continuing in a sensible way.
So I postpone the final part and use my current project ( luxrender forum wip, blender artists forum wip) to learn more about the material system and render options lux has to offer. By then version 0.6 should be ready.
So stay tuned …
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