Thought I'd posted my last image of the year yesterday but then I played with Walli's new bramble bush and did a few renders there.
It's a really lovely plant, for anyone using the .tgo version of this model out of the box, check the 'fruit' images, they are a little mixed up in their file names and fruit 1 is using fruit 2's images for some channels. Swap them around, easiest to rename the images and then reassign and re-save the object.
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Cheers! :)
mmmm.. not that I can do better but this is my take on a "bramble" i.e. blackberry fruit.
The fruits are individual spherical, black, plump, sacs. (sexy!)
use displacement, and you have "individual" sphericals, but at this stage this means you have to drop raytracing then, when rendering with tg. I have to check the model and see, what fruit textures where mixed up. I was in a hurry when finishing this before leaving into new year ;-)
Where can I get this model?
I recommend reducing the reflectivity (specular) on the berries, and increasing the specular roughness. Also, there doesn't seem to be any ground, as the berries seem to be reflecting sky from the bottom and the lower side areas.
Walli, I re-saved the model with fixed shaders but from memory, the ones I 'think' were mixed up were due to one of the image maps being wrongly named. The image named 'si3d_0011_fruit01_dis.tif' was actually the displacement image for fruit 2.
Like I say, I can't remember exactly as I saved my own .tgo version when they were reassigned but I'm quite sure that's what the problem was.