{"id":921,"date":"2011-08-31T21:37:11","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T03:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/?p=921"},"modified":"2011-08-31T21:37:56","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T03:37:56","slug":"u-s-b-u-s-b-u-s-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2011\/08\/u-s-b-u-s-b-u-s-b\/","title":{"rendered":"U-S-B! U-S-B! U-S-B!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time to kill in Maya, along with the desire to try some different modeling techniques, resulted in a USB cable. Throw in a few Mental Ray materials, and the result is below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/USB_Main.png\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/USB_Main.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-923    aligncenter\" title=\"Where does the cable go? Never you mind.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/USB_Main-300x168.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/USB_Main-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/USB_Main.png 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The model has a good amount of detail &#8211; much more than the render lets on, and I attribute the lack of definition to my light setup (although I&#8217;m sure some of this could have been better highlighted via the modeling). After spending way too much time tweaking the lighting, I finally settled on the result above.<\/p>\n<p>I then decided to render without any lights, and instead just use an HDR Image. The render is below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/USB_HDRI.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-924    aligncenter\" title=\"It still doesn't address where the cable goes, does it?\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/USB_HDRI-300x168.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/USB_HDRI-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/USB_HDRI.png 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I definitely like the feel of this render better. Besides the better specularity on the metal and black plastic, there is a lot less uniformity in general to the image. Why such a drastic difference between the two images when the only change was with and without lights\/ an HDR Image? I don&#8217;t know. But that is something I would like to get a better handle on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time to kill in Maya, along with the desire to try some different modeling techniques, resulted in a USB cable. Throw in a few Mental Ray materials, and the result is below: The model has a good amount of detail &#8211; much more than the render lets on, and I attribute the lack of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[81,18],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-maya","tag-mental-ray"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":926,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions\/926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}