Hi everyone,
My apologies if this question has been asked and posted numerous times. If someone can direct me to another thread, I’d greatly appreciate the help and direction! I’m currently using Rhino 8, and would like to achieve a realistic image for a jewelry piece that has a metal type material, and as well for the diamonds. I will eventually have to render out different jewelry pieces that have different shapes/cuts diamonds in the center.
I’ve tried the already-made preset material “gem”, and while it’s ok for on the fly renders, something is off? I get a lot of weird inconsistencies when I apply it to lets say a princess cut stone, or marquise etc.
I even tried to use a “glass” material with the IOR set at 2.42 with not much difference between the two.
I’ve searched through the forums and some people in different threads recommend making a “physically based material”, and mapping a diamond image (that I grabbed online) to the object. I’ve changed the mapping to WCS/OCS, and it appears to map it correctly to look like a diamond. It doesn’t look like light goes through the object, and it is a very still-like image when raytraced. Even the facets underneath the stone appear just wrong. If that makes any sense?
I’ve attached my poor attempts at rendering the three different ways I’ve mentioned above.
I appreciate all the work and help!
-Ricky