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Rendering Clear Plastic

Rendering Clear Plastic

Rendering Clear Plastic

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Can anyone suggest a good place to start when rendering clear plastic? I need to generate a very realistic image of a product, but everything I try in Photoworks looks very bad. For the material, do I use Polycarbonate, Polypropylene, Glass? I need a white background, but don't know if I can start with some other scene and change it. Also, what about lighting? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

RE: Rendering Clear Plastic

Look at using Photoview 360 and go to luxology.com to download glass Environments and materials, might help with your Clear plastic problem.

Scott Baugh, CSWP pc2
Berry Plastics
Cad Admin\Design Engineer
www.scottjbaugh.com

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RE: Rendering Clear Plastic

Forgot to clarify, it appears perfect in Photoworks and Photoview as well.

If you don't find that good enough and decide to go one step further, you may want to look at "Blender" (www.blender.org), especially if your not disgusted to use open source applications (free software)   

RE: Rendering Clear Plastic

I've had good luck using Clear Thick Glass in PV360 as a stand-in for clear plastics.

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RE: Rendering Clear Plastic

Fine.  I'll ask the question:  what do you mean when you say it looks bad?  Can you post a bad pic?  It could just be your lighting or it could be something else.  We're all just guessing otherwise.

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