"Reuben Pearse" <reu### [at] pearsecouk> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I recently came across this post on the LDraw forums:
> http://forums.ldraw.org/read.php?20,12928
>
> The Lego renders here are pretty awesome. I'm always looking for ways to
> acheive better Lego renders in POV-Ray, so would appreciate any advice/code
> snippets on how to achieve more realistic renders. Maybe there is some
> general "rendering plastic materials" type stuff that I could benefit from?
>
> I think my Lego models always look a bit too shiny:
>
http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/attachment/%3C51a7b9c2%40news.povray.org%3E/lego_minifigures_3d.png
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Reuben
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> http://www.pearse.co.uk/lego
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Hi Reuben,

yes the renderings at the LDraw forum looks really nice. I'm not sure, but I
think first subsurface scattering is in use there to a small amount and second
blurred reflection. The first is implemented in POV 3.7 now, the latter can be
simulated in POV with averaged textures or parametrized with the unofficial
version UberPOV. May be you look at this new features. Unfortunatelly I'm not an
expert at this issues to give further guidance. I can only give you this poor
hints.

Best regards,
Michael

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