Anyone Know Where this Mirrored Crystal is From?

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• WendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,117

  July 2018

  looks like some sort of mirror tile shader on random props actually 
• DaWaterRat Posts: 2,885

  July 2018

  I'd try a sphere primative with a mirror shader and smooth turned off on the surfaces tab.  (It's towards the bottom)
• AllenArt Posts: 7,175

  July 2018 edited July 2018

  It doesn't look mirrored so much as it looks like it has very high refraction like a diamond. Use the Iray Uber glass with dispersion (rainbow) and change the refraction from 1.55 to something like 2.40. If it doesn't have enough colors in it for your taste, lower the abbe value by .5 increments (the default for that glass is an abbe value of 55.00). First try 50.00, then 45.00, etc. until you get something you like. Or, you could just use the Iray Uber diamond material ;). Up to you.

  And yes, turn off smoothing.

  Laurie

  Edit: the image is a pair of earrings I made-the ball has smoothing turned off and the material is the glass shader with the refraction set to 2.40 and the abbe set to 45.00. The round corners radius is .0025 so that you can see the thin edges of the facets (because nothing in nature is razor sharp). The larger the object is, the more you will have to increase this value.

  

  

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• AllenArt Posts: 7,175

  July 2018 edited July 2018

  Now that I look at the stuff in the promo image again, the carafe looks like one of the items from Pauli's Bride's Gold (a very old item). :)

  Laurie

  Edit: and it is, shown here with the iray uber diamond shader on it and smoothing turned off.

   

  

  

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• Fauvist Posts: 2,219

  July 2018

  AllenArt said:

  Now that I look at the stuff in the promo image again, the carafe looks like one of the items from Pauli's Bride's Gold (a very old item). :)

  Laurie

  Edit: and it is, shown here with the iray uber diamond shader on it and smoothing turned off.

   

  You are AMAZING!  Thank you so much for figuring this out.  I'm going to buy the Bride's Gold and try out the shader you used.
• AllenArt Posts: 7,175

  July 2018

  Fauvist said:

  AllenArt said:

  Now that I look at the stuff in the promo image again, the carafe looks like one of the items from Pauli's Bride's Gold (a very old item). :)

  Laurie

  Edit: and it is, shown here with the iray uber diamond shader on it and smoothing turned off.

   

  You are AMAZING!  Thank you so much for figuring this out.  I'm going to buy the Bride's Gold and try out the shader you used.

  You're welcome. And not amazing. Just used to iray shaders somewhat...lol. Happy rendering!

  Laurie