Cinerender - polycarbonate render

[Anonymous]

I am really struggling to create a good quality render using Cinerender. I am trying to render my design which is made up of polycarbonate panels. Could anybody please help me with what would be a good setting to use to create this polycaronate effect?

Thanks,
Holly

[Anonymous]

To be more specific it is the: Facade Danpal® Double 16, 1,040 mm wide panels with softlite finish. It plays on transparency and that is what I am really struggling with... the ice color Danpal® double skin system transmits light to create a luminous atmosphere - it appears like a kind of milky lightbox when lit from within at night..... and gives a hint of the steel struture behind it but in a very blurred/ghostly type way...
Like the attached images but in a white/ice colour (not tinted)

[Carstenem]

The key is to use a texture which looks like polycarbonate and put it into the transparent channel.

I did a quick setting using a normal roof corrugated iron sheet to show you the effect. So needs more work but I think you can see where I am going.

hope this helps

Cheers Carsten

[Anonymous]

Thank you so much Cartsen - that does help me a lot. Do you know how I could increase the opacity on it so it is not quite so see-through?

Thanks again,
Kate

[Lingwisyer]

Brighten the image used in your transparency channel. Or you could layer it with a light coloured channel.



Ling.

[Anonymous]

Thanks Ling, I will try this!

[Carstenem]

Ling is correct and if the brightness is at 100% you have to lower the mix strength in the transparency channel. If mix strength is on zero you won't see any glass at all