Hello all. I’ve stumbled onto this wonderful program. I would like to use it to render 3D pieces of jewelry that I want to design and wonder if anyone’s used it for that purpose. More specifically…has anyone used Blender to render gemstones?? One would have to take into acount the refractive index of the material being modeled (topaz, corundum, diamond, etc).
The next version of blender’s internal renderer is going to have some interesting rendering effects added for crystals, glass, ice, etc. Has to do with the thickness of materials and how light is bent inside that thickness. Should be neat for the superman style crystals.