Plastic material

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These threads might help

Translucent plastic for a syringe

I’ve made a similar material on these bins: [image] Here are nodes: [image] The nodes in the black outline are to override the glass shadow so you don’t have to enable caustics to get decent lighting.

Silicone material

Hi guys, long-time lurker here. I’ve been trying to model this silicone mouthpiece for a while. It’s an interesting challenge model-wise, but the texture utterly eludes me. Every time I get close it ends up looking nothing like silicone. From the reference image, I’m guessing I need to use a particular shader to get the edges to light up. I’m also struggling getting it to be translucent but ‘blurry’ as well. I’ve tried using IOR settings, but they seem strangely ineffective in this project. An…

translucent plastic for solid models

Anybody has a good idea or tip in how to make those translucent plastic materials in Cycles? [image] I find that the translucent shader with thick / solid geometry generates very dark materials and is also incredible noisy. [image]