topic Advice needed on translucent leaves in Arnold for 3ds Max Forum

Advice needed on translucent leaves

Parmenides — Wed, 10 May 2023 21:37:21 GMT

I purchased a set of plants but it was a 3ds Max file rendered with Vray. I converted the Max project to a Maya project and used the Arnold 'convert shaders to Arnold' feature in the Arnold Shader menu. Not getting anything similar to the original file. Where do the Glossy files plug into in Arnold?

I am trying to achieve the translucent look of the leaves in the attached image but everything I have tried with Transmission, Opacity or Subsurface doesn't come close. Any lighting experts that can help out? Thanks.

Re: Advice needed on translucent leaves

Parmenides — Wed, 10 May 2023 21:49:07 GMT

Here is a model with a few leaves to test with: https://www.dropbox.com/s/8wc4suo2gzpnu0d/Lighting_Issue2.mb.zip?dl=0

Re: Advice needed on translucent leaves

nobody_b — Thu, 11 May 2023 01:54:35 GMT

thin walled + subsurface
https://help.autodesk.com/view/ARNOL/ENU/?guid=arnold_user_guide_ac_standard_surface_ac_standard_geometry_html

Re: Advice needed on translucent leaves

Parmenides — Sun, 14 May 2023 20:12:25 GMT

Thanks. Got a little closer but using the 'thin-walled' seems to make the translucency too even.