Cycles emerald material setup

[orangecreative]

Hey,

Could somebody please suggest an emerald node setup for Cycles? I was trying to mix in the “standard” diamond setup with some green but the results are not quite there yet…

Thanks!

[KWD (Kévin Dietrich)]

Hi,

I’ll start by explaining how this “standard” diamond shader works. Maybe you already know it but just in case you don’t :

You have three glass shaders, one red, on green, one blue. They’re then added to each other which will produce a white glass ((R,G,B) : (1, 0, 0) + (0 ,1 ,0) + (0, 0, 1) = (1, 1, 1)). Then the different IOR values will give different coloration to the diamond here and there (not the best explanation ever). I believe it’s a cheap way to fake how diamonds work.

For emeralds, I would do something like this (a quick and dirty test, can be drastically improved) :

Note that you will have to get a recent build, to get the Volume Absorption shader.

[orangecreative]

Merci, KWD! This is one cool new feature, indeed!
Here the quick results I got


Node setup for the left one:

Node setup for the right one:

[perr07]

Hey guys your by reading this thread I was able to come up with this.
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This allowed me to get this result.

[perr07]

this is the result I got from the node tree above.

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[Sudeep_Singh]

thanks for the help