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#21

Just a friendly reminder:

I see that the majority of your entries do not include the Gallery Entry tag. If you wish to have your image included in the gallery when it is updated on Monday night, you need to edit your post to include the tag.

To see what the tag looks like, just check out Mik’s post above. :slight_smile: It should be inserted right after the image tag.

Thanks!

#22

Another quickie to help build numbers. I really thought that more members would have found this challenge an interesting and easy one to participate in. [Gallery entry]

#23

:qu:

How can I get internal reflections to make a gem look more realistic? Can I?

Thanks,

#24

Here is a slightly better diamond. It’s a trick! Can you guess how?

Can someone tell me how to make it better? Thanks,

#25

This is the best I could come up with:

[img]http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/zbc_uploads/user_image-1042957893yym.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/zbc_uploads/user_image-1042975777bpw.jpg[/img]
#26

Sapphire:

#27

Hi Jay have you see that thread ? http://www.pixolator.com/zbc-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=001234
Pilou

#28

Pale Jewel Necklace

Just one more before this challenge closes, I couldn’t resist. Sorry if I seem to be hogging space… :slight_smile:

[Gallery Entry]

:b2: :b2: :b2:

#29

well, it’s a metal unknown to our science, but here is my entry :slight_smile:

“plutonian pendant”

[GalleryEntry]

#30

Thanks Jaycephus,
though I would really like to know how you got the great effect for the gold on the bottom left. I really like how that one turned out, very nice. :slight_smile: :+1:

btw, Great images all!

#31

Gummie, I thought my various platinums were the best, followed by the gold material in the first picture, followed by the gold material you are referring to. I thought it just looked too much like a cell shader. It does have a Maya quality to it though.

The material I uploaded will produce the gold and platinum in the top picture as is, except for making sure the base color is correct. I then produced the platinum in the top, right of the bottom picture with the same material, but with a certain texture in the RENDER:ENVIRONMENT section with ENV.REFLECTION in the material set to ‘100’ and REFLECTION in the material set to ‘0’. I then tried to produce some gold by using ENV.REFLECTION, but I found that this is most easily done if your RENDER:ENVIRONMENT texture looks more like the material you are trying to duplicate. In the case of the platinum material, the texture looked almost exactly like the scene that would be reflected from a polished platinum sphere. I borrowed it from an HDRI site. To do the gold in the bottom left, I started with a base color of yellowish orange, and used the same texture in the RENDER:ENVIRONMENT section, but I used a low setting of about ‘10’ in the ENV.REFLECTION setting of the material, so that the base color would come through. This resulted in what looked like an alloy of platinum and gold. Then I baked the layer with a best render, and used the saturation tool to make it look like it does.

#32

The commemorative Goodbye Mentat7 lapel pin:


[Gallery Entry]

Did anyone install Mentat’s heartplug yet??? How dare he think about escaping the ZBC!!!

:wink:

I just now got my materials worked up to just about good enough to create what I have in mind, and the challenge is over! I’ll still do what I had in mind, but I’m not finished with my frog either! Not enough time to play with ZBrush!

#33

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Magic Rings
</font>

[img]http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/zbc_uploads/user_image-1043130097fmm.jpg[/img]

[Gallery Entry]

[Gallery Entry]

#34

Sweet :+1:

#35

Very nice indeed Jay.
:+1: :+1: :+1: :+1: :slight_smile:

#36

Jaycephus,
Yes, the reason I liked the gold one so much was not necessarily for realism but that it looked very rich in coloring and I liked the range in softness from the outer rings to the inner. The color was just great.

Thanks for the info, I will try playing around with the file although I’m not too familiar with these options. :slight_smile:

#37

The gallery has been updated…

Thanks to the initiators and participants of this challenge :slight_smile:
-Pixolator

#38

Late to the show but here we go.

Thanks Pixolator for sparing me a little more disk space :slight_smile:

(Originally posted here http://www.pixolator.com/zbc-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=009802 )

Cloak pin and Selene pendant

[Gallery Entry]

#39

Golden Frog Idol

#40

Hi Jay
2 Challenges in the same time it’s a task !And if your frog should can eat a Bug It’should be a super task :cool:
Pilou
Ps if you could re-write my hotchpotch I will be very gratful :slight_smile:
There are too many Verbs in this phrase and too difficult conjugaisons for my poor basic language :slight_smile: