Hey Fusion community!
I'm working on a guitar model and I'm wondering if there's a good way to simulate a translucent 'burst' finish, a la vintage Les Pauls. Being able to alter the colors/gradient between would be an amazing feature as well. Manipulating woods and paint colors is no problem, but this has me stumped.
Attached pics are my current model in various finishes.
Thanks for taking a look!
Those are awesome guitar models!
There are quite a few of us in the Fusion community who are doing similar things - using Fusion for guitar design. There is even a Facebook group for us: Fusion 360 Luthiers.
You raise a very good question that's got me stumped as well. Let me contact the rendering folks to be sure, but I suspect that it will be hard/impossible to get this done. You might be able to supply a bitmap that shows the color gradient for a sunburst finish, but orienting it correctly on the body will be a challenge. I don't know if that is something that Keyshot can do or not. Might be worth looking into.
I'll get back to you if I get any good ideas from our rendering team
Jeff
So i tweaked the shape a bit more to look like a guitar blob, did a quick screen grab with the windows snip tool and whipped something together in sketchbook to get the main parts of a texture map together. the tif is attached and should have the layers still set up...
its not too bad ....a bit hacky hack ... could be better if i made the tex map from an actual guitar shape but I'm going to leave that up to you, i just wanted to see if the process worked to see whats possible without waiting for a worn french lacquer shader 🙂
cheers,
Carl
Fantastic! That looks really good. I see what you did, and that's a great approach. Using a 3D wood material as a starting point is good. Then, you get the sunburst all the way through. The only downside with this approach is the need for a per-body-shape material. So, if you wanted to do a Fender Telecaster version, you'd have to create a Telecaster sunburst material. A small cost, IMO. This is really nice.
Jeff
I tried using your image as a decal and it doesn't really look right, but I thought it worth sharing. If you ever want the "painted" look, just stretch a decal over it.
Hey There, just wanted to say that's an excellent looking guitar build you've got. I feel like such an amateur when I see stuff like that. Keep up the great work!
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