Jewellery rendering

Rendering
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Which is the best plugin to be used for jewellery rendering??

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Maxwell render is a good choise:
http://www.maxwellrender.com/index.php/gallery/images/7/2/287

Or V-ray
https://www.google.no/search?q=vray+jewelry&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=1094&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiuv6enpaXPAhXKZpoKHZxIAEsQ_AUIBigB

Or Keyshot:
https://www.google.no/search?q=vray+jewelry&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=1094&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiuv6enpaXPAhXKZpoKHZxIAEsQ_AUIBigB#tbm=isch&q=keyshot+jewelry

And check this thread:

It all depends on what you want to spend, what system you have and how long you are willing to fiddle with the rendering.

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or if you want to stick with McNeel and are on Windows … Brazil:

exactly as quoted above.

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I disagree as Brazil is discontinued by the developers and not something to invest time in IMO.

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Maybe, maybe not?

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Brazil will be an inbuilt plugin in rhino6??

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V-Ray 2.0 definitely makes you start reading stuff like this very soon. Results can be very good, BUT the plug-in itself (right now) simply cannot be considered ‘very good’.

Maxwell’s results are very nice. Personally I don’t like the plug-in for Rhino, I don’t like the material editor, and Maxwell Studio, the standalone version, crashed often. Also, it is really not fast.

There are updates coming soon for both though…

Right now I am testing Thea. Not sure about results yet, but the plug-in itself is very nice: A proper, modern, finished product. But I guess top-notch results can also make you kind of a raytracing, biased, unbiased guru first…

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I can recommend thea. Using it for jewellery for years now. Easy setup and rhino plugin is a blast.

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No.

Cycles will be - and might be enough?

As for a conclusive answer to “which one is the best” - there isn’t one.
A lot is about personal preferences - so try before you buy.

Unbiased might be easiest if you want physically correct results without a lot of fuss (but perhaps with a good bit of waiting) whereas a biased engine will allow you to go beyond realism and insert artistic freedom but requires in-depth knowledge of the settings…

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This images looks quite realistic.but if I want a black background is it possible to get that??
Also thea works as a plugin for rhino??

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You can choose whatever you wan’t as a background. Yes, it works as a Rhino plugin as well with interactive render viewport and full GPU support

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Here’s a simple setup and a simple ring I just made in Rhino 6 WIP.
Rendered with the built in Cycles Render display mode.

As you can se it lacks dispersion and other advanced features for a realistic look. But can be good enough for simple presentations.

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Why do you not considered 2.0 ‘very good’ ?

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Hi @matt_newberg,

I hope I am not saying something wrong now, because I’ve uninstalled the demo version and cannot double-check…

  • The plug-in often has a response time like a mobile website or so. Not slow, but like there is sth. between V-Ray and Rhino.
  • I think there was just one preview scene for materials: The sphere
  • I think you can just load .vismat files, but not popular .vrmat files (Did it come with a bunch of standard materials?)
  • No clipping planes. (I remember me finding out I need to create a double-sided material in order to look inside a small room …)
  • What is called ‘Lock viewport’ in Thea is something I was missing or I just couldn’t find it.
  • When you load a preset file into that Options window you cannot see which file you loaded or that you loaded a file at all.
  • When you change values in that Options window you cannot see which values you changed.
  • I think the windows were not dockable? (I often ended up having Materials, Options, Rendering, and the small progress window open and then things look like a mess.)
  • I had a demo version and render channels didn’t work at all. That’s okay if not having a license was the reason, but there was no feedback telling me so. To be honest, I still don’t know whether I did make something wrong, but just adding render channels as shown in the manual simply didn’t work.
  • I have a Xeon E5-2670v0 and, well, perhaps V-Ray RT is super fast with a GTX 980 or so, but for me it often felt like: This scene and this CPU cannot be the reason why V-Ray RT is not faster now.
  • I had to change a value in vrayforrhino.ini to prevent freezes: gui_timeout_minutes=5. (Which I found out at a point where anger played a role…)

One thing that in my opinion also really gets into user’s way is: When you learn a piece of software like V-Ray you use Google and end up on YouTube. And most stuff on YouTube is for V-Ray 3.x for 3ds Max. Which seams to be a totally different piece of software. That is frustrating, time-consuming and finally makes you feel like you are not in the ‘very good’ team…

I hope not too much is just plain wrong, because I didn’t carefully RT*M.
Marcus

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how to render a diamond using V-ray in Rhino 5.
Can anybody share some tutorial file or a video??
V-ray is just assigning materials or can put a diamond image and than assign materials??

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Here is a good tutorial on setting up a nice refraction material for a diamond:

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Hi,

Hi NISH,

I don’t know if for jewellery in particular, but…I would suggest Thea Render.

Its unbiased engine is awesone!!!

And also its “Presto” CPU+GPU engine is superb and fast as a lighting bolt.

I use it almost everyday and It’s perfectly integrated in Rhino V5 with its plugin.

Nice day,

  • Marco (mkdm)
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Awesome renders man. Love them.

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Thank you :slight_smile:

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Has anyone the tutorial, how to create photorealistic diamond in thea plugin?