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From: Hadmut
Subject: Shiny buttons?
Date: 29 Aug 2007 03:25:26
Message: <46D51F65.20409@msgid.danisch.de>
Hi,

there are plenty of cooking receipes about how to make those liquid
shiny buttons for web pages with graphic programs like photoshop or
gimp, but all of them are, although some of the are looking quite good,
sort of fake, e.g. the shape of reflections arbitrary and unrealistic.

I wonder whether there is a receipe of how to create them more realistic
with povray (and whether 'realistic' is really better). I am just a
beginner and did not yet manage to get that liquid effect properly.
Maybe a reason is that these web page buttons are little bit too far
from reality?

regards
Hadmut


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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: Shiny buttons?
Date: 29 Aug 2007 05:09:24
Message: <46d537c4@news.povray.org>
"Hadmut" <h3### [at] danischde> schreef in bericht 
news:46D### [at] msgiddanischde...
> Hi,
>
> there are plenty of cooking receipes about how to make those liquid
> shiny buttons for web pages with graphic programs like photoshop or
> gimp, but all of them are, although some of the are looking quite good,
> sort of fake, e.g. the shape of reflections arbitrary and unrealistic.
>
> I wonder whether there is a receipe of how to create them more realistic
> with povray (and whether 'realistic' is really better). I am just a
> beginner and did not yet manage to get that liquid effect properly.
> Maybe a reason is that these web page buttons are little bit too far
> from reality?
>

Maybe this can be of help:
Look in p.b.i. for the post by Dave Blandston (19 january 2007): Play, 
Pause, Stop, etc. Buttons
I looked this up in my newsreader, so I have no link to offer, sorry.

Thomas


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From: Hadmut
Subject: Re: Shiny buttons?
Date: 29 Aug 2007 06:55:51
Message: <46D550B7.4010405@msgid.danisch.de>
Thomas de Groot wrote:

> Maybe this can be of help:
> Look in p.b.i. for the post by Dave Blandston (19 january 2007): Play, 
> Pause, Stop, etc. Buttons
> I looked this up in my newsreader, so I have no link to offer, sorry.


Well, yeah, that's some point to start at, except that it is not glossy
(except for that strange magnifier button).

Creating these glossy buttons seems to take some sort of bubble of
anything with the photons parameter and to fiddle around until it looks
as expected...

regards
Hadmut


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: Shiny buttons?
Date: 29 Aug 2007 07:20:00
Message: <web.46d555a2efad85a3c4e49fa40@news.povray.org>
Hadmut <h3### [at] danischde> wrote:

> Creating these glossy buttons seems to take some sort of bubble of
> anything with the photons parameter and to fiddle around until it looks
> as expected...
>
> regards
> Hadmut

Remember when using shiny objects you must have something else in the scene
to see the reflection.

Stephen


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From: Skip Talbot
Subject: Re: Shiny buttons?
Date: 29 Aug 2007 14:32:22
Message: <46d5bbb6$1@news.povray.org>
Stephen wrote:
> 
> Remember when using shiny objects you must have something else in the scene
> to see the reflection.
> 
> Stephen
> 
> 

That is exactly it.  Don't focus so much on the button, its just a few 
transparent primitives with a reflective finish.  You want to give it 
something interesting to reflect.  Try using some HDRI maps on a sphere 
that encompasses your scene.

Skip


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From: Rune
Subject: Re: Shiny buttons?
Date: 29 Aug 2007 18:46:07
Message: <46d5f72f$1@news.povray.org>
Hadmut wrote:
> Hi,
>
> there are plenty of cooking receipes about how to make those liquid
> shiny buttons for web pages with graphic programs like photoshop or
> gimp, but all of them are, although some of the are looking quite
> good, sort of fake, e.g. the shape of reflections arbitrary and
> unrealistic.
>
> I wonder whether there is a receipe of how to create them more
> realistic with povray (and whether 'realistic' is really better).

Do you have a reference image of the exact type of look you want?

Rune
-- 
http://runevision.com


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