Vray Wet SSS Material

phrit

Hello, I'm trying to achieve a cooked pasta material in Vray similar to the picture below:





So I started a SSS2 material and as you can see below it's looking very pasta-ish, except that I can't get it to look wet like in the reference. Tried to mess with all gloss and specular controls of SSS2, but no luck there
Is there a way to achieve what I'm looking for?

TeZzy

Try using a vray blend material. Since you are happy with the SSS on the pasta add another material that is glossy on top of it and set it do additive. See if that helps.

phrit

thank you for the tip, managed to get more wet look using the blend + additive



still, it's not as realistic as I wanted, but enough for me I guess hehe

oglu

the right light is an important part...
the shader alone cant do it...

you need the right environment around the noodles or a good hdri...

Alphavader

what oglu said -
need a right light (or lightning setup of different lights), environment, even the groundplane and correct rendersettings
are the goal. Shader is only one part

phrit

it makes perfect sense, but what if a given light setup for a shader like this doesn't work well with the rest of the scene?
not that I'm having this problem, but it's nice to know.. hehe

oglu

in that case you have to fake a different light setup...
linking lights to only a group of objects is a good way to do that...

phrit

nice
i'll give it a try someday
thank you all for the help