Hey, I’m currently working on some more detailed renderings of tents in a studio-like surrounding. Tent is placed on ground-surface, shadows only. A pretty basic environment so to say. I realized that no light passes through the surface (single layer) which I built to be the canopy. If I increase t…

Are you using Rhino 7? A Physically Based material set to 95% opaque and 20% roughness should do it. I’d also probably add a Subsurface setting to the material for more control of the light color within the tent.

Use mesh offset and make it a thin sheet , with a solid sss can be activated A single layer will never look good whatever material is applied. Gd

Or on a single surface use the thickness modifier with the tinies amount that makes sense.

Thanks everyone, I’ll try a few suggestions from here and let you know. Really appreciate all the answers :pray: @yes, I’m using Rhino7

Hey again, so far I’m pretty happy with the result. The two in the front are what I had before and in the second row it’s a PBR with an added thickness (via modifier). IOR is 1.0. Is there any way to prevent the light from being visible from the inside? It feels unnatural but if I increase the IOR I…

A bit hard to guess what you want without a reference. Something like this? [image] I used a material on the ground plane. Shadows-only has some light effects. Further it is a good ixea to not let your tents float if you don’t want light to enter from under the edges.

Thanks man, I actually have to let them fly since the canopy won’t reach all the way to the ground. I also applied material to the ground. Nevertheless, your light seems to be much more red-ish than mine. How does it come? I would like to have the light go through the surface, tinting the inside i…

Subsurface did the job but it still shines in both directions which alters the look completely. Any idea?

If you could find a reference photo of what you’re after it’d be easier to figure out a material setup.

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nathanletwory (Nathan 'jesterKing' Letwory) February 12, 2021, 5:40pm 3

Maybe the Subsurface approach I did for the sail fabric in Raft on Sea does what you want?

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