Talk:Blender 3D: Noob to Pro/Light a Silver Goblet

Creating a Plane
To create a plane, I box-select the bottom verticies of the goblet, move cursor to selection, change to top view, and then Add the Plane. The problem with this is that the plane then becomes part of the object... which isn't usually what you want.

To get round this, after you position the cursor, switch to object mode and change to a new layer (2KEY) and create the plane and scale there instead. Then move it to the layer with the goblet on (MKEY 1KEY). Now the Goblet and the Plane can be selected separately in Object mode.

Kevintropman (talk) 08:38, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Spot Light
I set my spot light at 9, -15.2, 20 and rotation 40, 35, 0 with Ray Shadow on. You may want to increase the intensity to 2 as well. If you do not set rotation, you just light up the plane and miss the goblet completely with the suggested settings! To say that rotation does not matter with a spot light is puzzling...

Kevintropman (talk) 08:56, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Final Render Picture
How do you get that wonderful silver effect in the last render? Was that achieved with the basic shaders - or was the compositor applied to that image? --Jeorne (discuss • contribs) 16:00, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

Silver goblet (cylinder method)
This was great fun!

Looking at the reflections in my silver goblet, it seems to "remember" that it once had facets, even though subsurf and smooth have made it look very fair and smooth. Reflections of a straight edge in the bright silver are not a smooth curve but a series of "batwing" points, as you can see in this render... is there some way to get rid of this "memory" of the underlying form? Excellent series of tutorials. I ended up preferring the Spin method for this particular task, probably because it is so analogous to the real-world process of throwing pottery on a wheel; fine control of variations in the wall thickness makes for a more realistic end product imho.

As you can see I used the crude "cube" goblet as a chunky wooden object, the "cylinder" goblet as the metal/mirror object, and the carefully-drawn and spun final goblet became glass. The glass one is my favourite.

Tazling (discuss • contribs) 05:36, 15 November 2016 (UTC)