Photorealism knob... my first attempt.

[Christoph Hart]

Well you‘re almost there ;)

But I am not seeing the filmstrip, might be possible that the image is too big for the forum.

[Dan Korneff]

@christoph-hart interesting... I'll update the first post with a wetransfer link

[staiff]

if i can give you my opinion : really good. but:
try to put a small light in front- right to avoid the noise on your white section.
I use Cinema 4D with light kit studio pro (HDRI) from greyscaleGorilla for my renders. With HDRI-PBR light planes it's really good.

it's long to create/render 3D, making filmstrip. but it's for me the best result. i hate plate vector style. just useful for android.

Just see the Arturia's product. So awesome.

Good job on Blender. continue ! :D

[Dan Korneff]

@staiff it seems like lighting is the most important thing in 3D rendering. I have 2 light sources at the moment. I think I'm going to recreate the atmosphere in my studio.... window from front and sides, plus 4 overhead lights

[staiff]

@dustbro
Yes lighting is very important, but it's also the "stuff" who can destroy your rendering (burning the image with the lights).

That's why i use now HDR maps and 1 or 2 lights.
I don't use Blender, so i don't know how to do it, and if HDR skymap exists (in plugin), but the better way is create an half sphere, setting it as a light source, put an HDR map in it (powerful free HDR maps here: https://hdrihaven.com). and adding 1 or 2 lights with somewhat like 30% or 50 % lighting and put the 2 lights just where the shadow create noise.
the good thing is also put a 50% light behind the object to separate it from the background and sharpening the edge.

[staiff]

seems that you don't have to create a light dome in Blender but using the environment map.!

[hisefilo]

@dustbro wow!! 3d makes a difference. Ive done my UIs on Adobe Illustrator. The main thing I learned is size rules. Doing a lot of detail for a final 36px knob does not makes sense in my opinion. But figuring out the entire UI on 3D and then rendering knobs with same lightning will be perfect.

[Bastiaan]

Work in progress :-)

[hisefilo]

@bastiaan wow!!!!

[Dan Korneff]

Looking good!
I'm almost finished with my GUI as well :)

[Dan Korneff]

[d.healey]

Might have to hire one of you guys for a project I have in mind...

[d.healey]

A friend of mine has started developing 3D GUI components too. I've just been testing one in HISE.

[hisefilo]

@d-healey nice!!!!!

[pes]

@d-healey

[orange]

Made with Cinema 4D. Plugin has been modeled with over 600 math functions to capture the sound of the gear....

[Kabraxis]

@orange Never thought another fellow Turk is interested in HISE at all. That's a very cool looking panel, rock on!

[orange]

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[Dan Korneff]

@orange Looking good! How did you capture the math? I"m just starting to tinker with MATLAB on this end.

[orange]

@dustbro Thanks. I am using "Curve Expert Pro" to get the functions. Non lineerity is the pain in the ass for modeling analog gears