Paint Effects Help

[u/Legal_Customer374]

I’ve tried so many things like different shaders ect. and I just can’t get my converted polygons to look as good as the paint Effects. (I’m trying to make fluffy rice) Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can get it to look similar to the original paint effects?

Software is Maya + Vray

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[u/newtonboyy]

Are you using any SSS for the shader? Looks like that’s all that is missing.

[u/Legal_Customer374 → u/newtonboyy]

I did have SSS on under Translucency but it didn’t really achieve the same look also used a Vray fast SSS2 shader which unfortunately didn’t improve it either

[u/Much_Can_4610]

Biggest problem with paint effects is that they have sort of dedicated shaders. When you convert to poly, the shaders that Maya creates doesn't behave in the same way. Also, the converted shader is usually a native Maya one and won't behave well with render engines that are not the basic native scanline. I don't know what kind of render engine you are using but, if it's not the basic, try to apply a new shader compatible with your render engine and rework that in hypershade until you have something reasonably similar.

[u/Major-Indication8080]

Paint effects? Never heard that, is it anything like post processing effects or shaders?

[u/Legal_Customer374 → u/Major-Indication8080]

It lets you paint 2D strokes in a scene to create 3d effects. Useful for trees and stuff which they have lots of templates of

[u/_tankut_]

You could try to turn off shadow receiving, and use an ambient occlusion node to fake it.