SaitoGray - I'll do a separate post on the minifigs. It's mostly the dust map you can see on the arm. You could try plugging the scratches group into the displacement input of the material output instead if you want to use round edges, though it may not work well. But looking again I can see where the issue is because for those renders I didn't use the Round Edges (I did that manually with bevel modifiers and other things). I'll try do it later today.īallisticBricks - I am using the script materials with a few little tweaks. Thanks in advance ! Thanks for the tuto, I will try to play with it as soon as I have a render to make ! When I try the 'remove double option' then I add a sub modifier and a bevel modifier the results are really not that good and I have weird geometry.Īnyway, I really can't figure out how do you make that work, do you have some tips ? I have no problem with converting the geometry to quad but when I add a modifier the corner of the torso disappear. In a comment below your imperial soldier render you mentioned how you get the minifig to render with your GPU.Ĭould you elaborate a little more on that ? Thanks for the tuto, I will try to play with it as soon as I have a render to make ! Tweak the values and scales to get the look you want. They also have great tutorials on how to use all their textures including dust and scratch overlays at. I downloaded a bunch on their free trial. I have this scratches node group plugged into all of the normal inputs:Īnd this dust node group takes the color and roughness from the solid/transparent etc group input and outputs to the diffuse colour and glossy roughness: hdr file)īallisticBricks - My overlays come from. I look forward to seeing more renders making their way out of the studio and into the wider world.Ĭynaptic So you've used Scrubs' Blender template but want to spice up your renders a bit? (Please note that you do need to be at least a bit familiar with Blender).Īll sorts at (use the reflection map. I wanted to make this concise, so if you have any questions just ask. Once again just experiment until your happy. A value of 0 means everything will be in focus. Assuming you haven't changed the scale of your model after importing it into Blender a value in the range of 2-5m is suitable depending on the focal length. The aperture controls the strength of the depth of field effect. The Focus setting is simply the part the camera is focused on - the minifig's head for instance. Under Depth of Field there are a few things to adjust. Feel free to experiment to get the look you want. For a very small model 100mm is good 70mm for something small 56mm for anything larger. The Focal Length setting determines the strength of the perspective effect. After you select the select the camera the camera settings become available as shown here: This adds the blur effect that makes your render look like macro photography. To get the background to show up you need to uncheck this checkbox in the render settings: Don't worry here if the resolution is a bit low, the depth of field we add later blurs them.Īll sorts at (use the reflection map. These provide the lighting information and the background. exr file in Scrubs' tutorial you instead add a different HDR image.

For more information just find a video tutorial online that you like.Īnother alternative is to use a procedural texture. Just set this up for your circle object and and make adjustments until it looks right. Here is the node setup for my ground materials: The important thing here is that your textures are high resolution because they will be seen from a short distance. In my renders I replace the studio backdrop with a simple circle mesh to which I add textures to create the surface I like, such as wood or concrete.

The Blender template has a simple studio backdrop but if you want your model to be somewhere else you ideally want a ground surface that fits the location. It's not too hard and there is so much free information out there. Everything I have learned is from online tutorials and experimentation. The first thing I want to say is that I had never used Blender or similar software until I started doing renders here just over a month ago. So you've used Scrubs' Blender template but want to spice up your renders a bit? (Please note that you do need to be at least a bit familiar with Blender).

Dust overlay displacement after effects