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General Category => Gallery => Work in Progress/Tests => Topic started by: dudateles on 2014-06-13, 20:47:05

Title: Neon
Post by: dudateles on 2014-06-13, 20:47:05
This is personal project, which I used to study and achieve a good neon result. It's impressive how is so important knowing very well what you are trying to recreate. After made a research of how neon tube are made, I realized that I did all wrong, and of course, I didn't get a good result. Also, I get awesome references on Behance.

Title: Re: Neon
Post by: Tanakov on 2014-06-23, 10:18:04
Your renders look quite nice, can you say a fiew words about how making of your product?
Title: Re: Neon
Post by: dudateles on 2014-06-23, 20:37:01
Hi Tanakov!

The first step was to understand how neon bars are made. So, it´s very important to recreate the tube woth some thickness and another one thinner to simulate the gas inside the tube. The contour tube is a simple glass material and the "gas" is a self-illuminated material with fallof at diffuse to darker the border of the neon a liitle. Also, I used a shinny black material between the letters setting ID for those polygons.

The environment is an HDRI with two square area lights.

That' all!

Cheers
Title: Re: Neon
Post by: Tanakov on 2014-06-25, 10:14:20
Looks nice, I like it and I will try the same )
Title: Re: Neon
Post by: Clero on 2018-07-19, 15:32:40
Hi Tanakov!

The first step was to understand how neon bars are made. So, it´s very important to recreate the tube woth some thickness and another one thinner to simulate the gas inside the tube. The contour tube is a simple glass material and the "gas" is a self-illuminated material with fallof at diffuse to darker the border of the neon a liitle. Also, I used a shinny black material between the letters setting ID for those polygons.

The environment is an HDRI with two square area lights.

That' all!

Cheers

Hi man, could tell me where did you find fallof on diffuse?
Title: Re: Neon
Post by: TomG on 2018-07-19, 15:35:40
Most likely it's the native Max Falloff map, plugged into the Diffuse slot.