Anyone know how to render an item to give it a silver or gold appearance? Any tools that can do photo realistic effect for jewellery design?

Thanks

Sculpy

Hello,

Yes, what is your budget and feature requirement?

Try the free Simlab Composer Lite ( max 1920 * 1080 )

http://www.simlab-soft.com/3d-products/simlab-composer-lite.aspx

By Destiny

Sorry for being off-topic!

@Pilou have you tried if the new SimLab plug-in for ZBrush works also with SimLab Composer Lite?

http://www.simlab-soft.com/3d-products/Integration/simlab-composer-zbrush.aspx

I ask because it is currently only for Windows and i am on a Mac with ZBrush.

Regards
Stefan

Thankyou frenchy. I will give it a try.

Hi Sculpy, MoI itself is only focused on modeling and doesn't have any photo-realistic type rendering built into it. So you need to export your model to a rendering program to do that. There are various rendering programs available - Simlab Composer that Pilou mentioned above is a great one to check out.

To move your model over into Simlab Composer for rendering you can export from MoI to .obj format and set the option for "Output: Quads & Triangles" in the mesh options dialog, then open the .obj file in Simlab for rendering.

- Michael

@Stephan
Personally no but i have asked to the SimLab manager! :)

So wait & see! :)

Ah, o.k.

Thanks for asking them Pilou!

Best regards
Stefan

@Stefan
Ok I have the answer!

YES YOU CAN! :)

So a sort of "KeyShot like" for free! :)
(Limited of course to 1920 *1080) It's better than nothing! ;)

http://www.simlab-soft.com/3d-products/simlab-composer-lite.aspx

Thanks a lot Pilou,

great to hear that we now have also a free rendering solution directly with ZBrush! :-)

Best regards
Stefan

It's not the only one, (Blender etc..), but surely one of the more easy and pleasant! :)

And don't forget the internal render of ZBrush! ;) (BPR..etc)
Ralph Stumpf makes some miracles with them! ;)

Amazing rendering!

Thanks.

Yes Pilou, Ralf Stumpf is awesome. I collected also MatCaps from him,
which are very very nice.

But i will start to save now money for KeyShot and KeyShot Bridge,
so that i can buy me a license next year. ;-)

Regards
Stefan