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Ice render

Posted by Sketchit on September 29, 2016 at 1:27pm in IRender nXt ArielVision 3D Design Studio (Sket

Im Want to achive this icebar look in a rendering what functions do you think i should play around with or what materials can i use?

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Sketchit October 4, 2016 at 9:23am

Uploaded the model using hightrail
Sketchit October 4, 2016 at 9:18am

Hey Al i have a mdoel here that is take really long to extract i have no idea why
Sketchit October 3, 2016 at 11:06am

Thanks. Is there a new version of irender nxt out? If yes whats the fixes and stuff
Render Plus October 3, 2016 at 10:58am
Cast Shadows in SketchUp is the default, so it is almost always turned on already.

In SketchUp I had View/Shadows set to on to turn on the sun.

In IRender nXt, the blocks would have cast shadows on other objects, but they were not casting a shadow on the ground, because the Ground Plane was not on in SketchUp.
- SketchUp casts shadows on the ground even if the ground is not turned on.
- IRender nXt only casts shadows on the ground if the SketchUp ground plane is on.
If you select the Render Preset - Exterior with sun we turn on the sun and the sky, but we do not automatically turn on the ground plane, because for some models that would block anything below the ground level.
Sketchit October 3, 2016 at 10:32am

What settings did you use to do that? Cast shadow
Render Plus October 3, 2016 at 7:35am

I was wondering why I didn't see shadows from the ice on the ground.

The reason is that we don't cast shadows on the ground unless there is actually some ground.

I turned the ground plane on and git some shadows.
Sketchit October 3, 2016 at 7:16am

Thanks Al
Render Plus October 3, 2016 at 7:11am

I wasn't able to attach the model So I am trying again as a .ZIP file

ice-blocks.zip
Render Plus October 3, 2016 at 7:09am

I grabbed this ice block from the 3D warehouse, and made it a little more transparent.

https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model.html?id=u5c81aafb-da19-499b-...

But, first I left it thin:

Then I changed it to think with Index of Refraction at 1.50. Notice the better reflection of the sun, and better distortion of the brick wall.

I would play around with a simple model like this to find good rendering settings for ice before I started.

I have attached the mode if you want to play with it.
Sketchit October 3, 2016 at 6:38am

So would i select thick glass preset and increase the refeaction to 1.31 or higher?

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