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Hello guys, just a small update: spherical light + reflector, a small table and a different wood for the boiserie on the back. I don't know but it seems to me that glass and the book have very subtle contact shadows, but everything else does. Anyway, any comment appreciated! p.s. I forgot the power ...

Yes you drift in correct direction! Same system for floor. I hope you do not use specular :wink: this is really old technology ...and this effect doesn`t exist in real world 8) Don't worry I've banned specular a long time ago :D The white reflection you see is coming from white LEM panels (3 in tot...

So, this is a small update with leather and floor updated. The close up is risky because it's not so detailed, but I like it much better than the first render anyway.
Any suggestion about materials are welcome!

edit: maybe the leather needs to be a bit more blurried

Ok, I'll do some experiment, I think I'll start with the floor

Ok, that's make sense.
One more question: why you need to clamp the values just before multiply with fresnel and not after the reflection preview? If preview is used wrong can cause value >1... or not?

Janusz Biela wrote: Important: better is when you use mixer system BEFORE splitting to reflection and blur (you need same map for reflection and blur, except the blur map should be inverted).

Oh right! So the ref map is already mixed before the blur: do you mean like this?

...here solution (I mentioned this in Nodes topic): Of course you can mix 2-3 textures map by Mixer, colors with textures by Mixer (before is good to desaturate texture) and after that create reflection map or mix two reflection maps, making exclude for reflection, etc. Ok, if I understang correctl...

- leather with minimum three textures: small bump, diffuse, big splotches mixed in Nodes with inverse reflection blur I write it because you can do it also in Lightwave (of course in Kray not native render engine)...there is good surfacing done in Nodes and quality render. Both you can do in Kray. ...

Hi guys, I still have some problem with some materials so I decided to play with this simple scene I created. I think leather it's a difficult one, here is my attempt to create a material for the famous Chester sofa (BTW it's not modeled by me, it's a convertion from v-ray/max). I like it, but I'm n...

Good, I never thought to use Looks for pp stills images: it works stand alone outside AE also and has simple tools to do that and probably creating my own templates is really fast.
Thanks!

Maybe I should give AE more attention, my knowledge of the program is very limited to basic stuff now.
Can you suggest some in depth tutorial?

I didn't try exterior recently, but for interiors I use something between 1.8, 6.0, 50%, but it depends on the situations. My preferred setting was, in tone mapping, everything at 2.2, but Exposure both at 0.7, and QLWF gamma 2.2 and exposure at 0.7, but with the problem in QLWF I reverse to the sta...

Ok, QLWF disabled, it was it. Sometimes it helps me to keep color accurate, but I think I can find another tonemap or cc in post.

Ok, I checked everything on my scene and I didn't seen the Tonemap->Gamma under General, probably because I never change that settings, I know that should be linear. I think that I forgot to reset to linear, probably a distraction. Anyway I checked your scene and I think I found the problem, the lig...

Ok Janusz, here's the scene, it's super basic, just a white backdrop and a light (disabled). Setting in Kray are basic too, but besides the Ray Recursion Limits >6 I can't find nothing wrong. It really strange, but you are the expert