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Hi Sharlybg, thank you for the links!

EDIT: Picture replaced with long time render.

Yet another miracle: reasonable use of glossy coating. At the moment I did not get what I intended. Hoping soon to hit my target.

Hi, Sharlybg. Very nice study. How to you make a model like that? Is this a 3D scan or sculpted?

Null Material with Volume.png Null Material with Volume Transmisson Colored.png Velvet.png Velvet with Opacity and Green Volume.png Velvet with Opacity and Green Volume mixed with null.png Velvet with Opacity and Green Volume mixed with null and no opacity.png Velvet with Opacity and Green Volume m...

Thanks, B.Y.O.B Instead of mixing with null, use the opacity slider of the material. This renders a lot faster. Well, you have to try it. It makes really a huge difference to use null material and mix instead of using opacity only. At least in version 2.0 with CPU Bidir. I will show the difference s...

Same material setup but with different colors. Obviously I made a mistake setting up air. I'm wondering what happens with correct settings.

Velvet with its advanced three parameters is a bit beyond my current understandig of what is happening. EDIT: Picture replaced after 6 h rendering, CPU BiDir (i7 4770K, 3.5 GHz), comment added. TestShape Velvet Material.2.jpg Well it is not a pure velvet material, it is a mix with a null, the materi...

and BlendLuxCore only has a few, not sure if you mean those? Yes, to get back again to this topic, I did not mean unit tests, I know these are very useful, depending on how you code, you may have test methods for almost every method sometimed even for easy ones. And if there are many dependencies e...

Nice Pictures, Lights_and_Shadows.
How long did you need to model a gemstone looking that kind?

This is just playing around with Glass and Volume settings. There is an especially fancy material there: Denim. For my taste default settings are a bit out of line. However it is fun to use. In my opinion more useful is a nice wood material and a brick material with offset for 3d look and free shape...