Twilight Render User Forum

Hello All. Just joined and just downloaded Twilight. I am a former Kerkythea user so I think the transition should be pretty easy and I can already tell that this is 100x easier to use.

I was wondering if anyone here has tried to make a Kalwall material or object. If you are not familiar, Kalwall is a translucent wall panel that is made up of two sheets of fiberglass reinforced sheets (not 'plastic' according to the company) over a grid core. The cavity is also insulated. The lighting effect is pretty amazing. See attached. I have seen forum posts for other renderers and wanted to see if anyone has any ideas here. I figured that I would have to build up the panel just as the actual product is done and try to find a rice paper like translucent effect.

Here is the company's website:
http://www.kalwall.com/

Cheers!

Rudy

A similar thing was done here: http://twilightrender.com/phpBB3/viewto ... f=13&t=363

use the translucent leaf template and set Opacity in Sketchup to 10 or 20 percent but leave default scattering at 90 percent. this should work when your model is a single face.

Download scene below.

Kalwall material

Template>Translucent>Leaf
Set to 50% and 90% as shown in screenshot.

Scene lighting : Light Emitting material on ceiling - 100w/m2
Scene render settings: Easy 09

Thanks for the sample model