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Kizza

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Hi all,

I'm trying to get a certain look with my renders.

See attached pic of cabinetry.

All cabinet is white except yellow infill panel.

I'm rendering with FQ RW.

How can I get the render to look more white rather than grey, while still maintaining shadow and highlights?

And how can I show the edge of the benchtop as viewed from the side? I want to highlight the benchtop as a separate piece.

I've used a custom made shader with colour and reflectivity options turned on.

Thanks

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Hi,

You could add a Fill Light with shadows turned of to brighten up the Surface of the cabinet.

To make the reflektion visible you need something to be refelcted in the doors for example, could be another lightsource shining towards the frontdoors.

Extensively used in car photography

If you have just this cabinet with no world arround it, and you want to present it nicely, you should make a little Studio setup curved backwall-floor Object, with keylight (the one you alredy put) , Fill-, and Backlight.

(aka 3 point lighting)

The next level after that is HDRI (aka indirect lighting) very pretty results.

(after a while of experimenting ....)

To get the surfaces whiter, the easiest way is to photoshop the rendered image.

But the you need a Background other than white.

Check out artistic white mode.

So many possibilities.. :-)

Edited by Horst M.
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Thanks, thats given me a direction to progress further.

Any thoughts on how I can define the benchtop as seen from the end of the cabinet? Even though the benchtop and cabinet are the same colour, I want to define it a bit better. (Similar to foreground hidden line render but more subtle.)

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Hi Horst,

On your example you can see the line of the benchtop. I can't seem to replicate that. Also the doors of my cabinet should be defined but are not showing up in the render.

It's probably all to do with my render settings so I will keep experimenting.

I like the result you have achieved - cabinet is the colour I would like to end up with.

Renderworks is quite powerful isn't it?

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Hi Kizza,

AHA, thats it. I did a little trick with the top.

Seems like your model is too perfect.

If you have not even a miron of space, or a 0.1mm fillet or tiny jointgap

between the Top and the sides there is no space for light and shadow.

Also: The doors of a real Cabinet have a (may be extremely small) Gap to the Cabinet Box.

This gap can cause Shadow and make a line become vislible.

Yes, you are right, Renderworks2012 is powerful, there is getting Started Tutorial from Dave Donley.

http://www.vectorworks.net/training/free_resource.php.

I post you the example File tomorrow, don't have acess to it now.

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