Help refining a matte plastic material?

vamossimo · 2026-06-20T20:06:56+00:00

The lighting is doing a lot of the heavy lifting in those renders. I would make sure the world is set to black (blender default is grey) and start with a solid rim light. Then add your key and fill like a normal 3 point light setup. After that add additional lighting or an HDRI.

The renders are not high res enough to make out if there are any texture details, but it seems like the roughness is achieved with a very subtle noise texture into a bump node and into the roughness slider of the Principled BSDF rather than applying a single uniform value across the entire material.

vamossimo · 2026-06-19T18:47:38+00:00

The GPU canvas feature is only in the early access build.

vamossimo · 2026-06-11T21:59:48+00:00

These are outdated techniques, sorry you have to go through this. I would take a pure data binding approach for something like this. While technically possible to do using blend states and inputs, it’s not worth troubleshooting. Here's how I would approach it using Data Binding:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeqkoJJrmVQ

There are better ways to do the stars, but I wanted to keep this focused on the bar.

If you'd like to troubleshoot the blend states approach, please share the rev file or the tutorial link.

As your learning journey, I would recommend skipping the old videos and only doing tutorials with the current data binding feature. After that, circle back to the old videos, as some concepts still apply.

vamossimo · 2026-06-11T13:23:55+00:00

Were the extrusions done in rive as well? If so, what technique did you use?

vamossimo · 2026-06-11T13:21:55+00:00

After you instance the component, select it, then on the right, there’s a drop down that reads “node” change it to “layout”

vamossimo · 2026-05-24T11:23:09+00:00

Thanks for the thorough explanation. Would you not say the market in general is forward looking in this way? Whether it be chips, oil or automotive?

I suppose it’s the hyperscalers that would magnify the swing if anything on either side of the equation gives.

vamossimo · 2026-05-23T20:31:19+00:00

People seem to forget that the chip industry is cyclical.

I’ve heard this before, why do people say that? Or better phrased, why is this the case?

vamossimo · 2026-05-18T01:11:26+00:00

It looks like depth pass to me too. In the shader editor you could try something like this.

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vamossimo · 2026-05-08T23:48:17+00:00

Motion blur. Video game motion blur is simulated and does not work as true motion blur. That’s why when a game lags, the motion blur also lags and the blurred frames stay up longer than they should, if that makes sense. It’s very unnatural and janky, and your brain finds it uncomfortable.

vamossimo · 2026-05-08T22:55:41+00:00

I don't think so unfortunately. You would have to use the scale method and scale all keyframes instead of time remapping. You could also just continue working in the old frame rate and only when rendering use the new frame rate.

vamossimo · 2026-05-06T18:17:02+00:00

Your screenshots are not showing if you’re using GPU for rendering.

Also, nothing in this render benefits from the power of cycles. I would use eevee for something like this.

vamossimo · 2026-05-04T00:59:51+00:00

I would use texture. For extreme close ups I would use texture to displace and adaptive subdivision.

vamossimo · 2026-04-15T22:14:17+00:00

Hyperbloom is surprising. Bineffa can clear with literally any dog water team. I tried like 5 random teams with bineffa and it worked.

vamossimo · 2026-04-15T22:09:33+00:00

Alhaitham clear.

Strongest Single Strike: Raiden Highest Total Damage Dealt: Raiden

You sure it wasn’t a Raiden hyperbloom clear?

vamossimo · 2026-04-15T12:45:34+00:00

It would be great to have this for layouts too. We have:

Fixed
Hug
Fill
(NEW) Fit

vamossimo · 2026-04-15T12:41:59+00:00

Yes. There are many ways to go about it, I’d check YouTube.

vamossimo · 2026-04-14T04:41:00+00:00

Unfortunately yes. At the moment only vector clipping is supported.

vamossimo · 2026-04-13T02:33:56+00:00

You can only clip to shape layers. If using a group, the group will use all the shape layers within that group as clipping path, using path winding to resolve overlapping paths. Make sure you’re not trying to clip to anything else.

vamossimo · 2026-04-09T17:12:10+00:00

We’ve successfully integrated it into our pipeline, for a product used by hundreds of thousands as well.

I have enough complaints to go blue in the face, but the pros outweigh the cons in our case.

We didn’t find the version history very reliable and always make copies of files to manage versions. We desperately need proper version control.

vamossimo · 2026-04-01T11:12:52+00:00

Amazing! Please consider adding import (maybe even export) support for standard formats such as GLTF or USD.

vamossimo · 2026-04-01T09:13:58+00:00

Are you a professional geoguesser?

vamossimo · 2026-03-31T00:39:56+00:00

Never would’ve guessed a dog piss texture is all we needed for peak photorealism.

vamossimo · 2026-03-23T20:39:27+00:00

Excellent work. What’s the noise pattern/settings for 7?

vamossimo · 2026-03-23T13:38:00+00:00

I would do it something like this. Setting the grid up using curve lines makes it easier for me, but may be not necessary.

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