Cloudy Plastic not look smooth

Hello together,

i got a problem. i want that the backside look like on the second picture. but i have to set the denoise blend to 0.9 or 1. so i lost the details.

How is it possible that it looks smoother?
Can anyone help me? Thanks.


first pitcure: without denoise
second picture: with denoise 0.9

that’s the way it is with denoise. Especially in KS. The slider is just an opacity blend for the denoised layer. I rarerly use the denoiser in KS, its sorta like a sledgehammer. it either works really well or it wrecks everything. I use Topaz products here at work, and those work really well. Otherwise Photoshop has some denoising tools built in that work better than the KS built in ones. You can also let the render bake for a long time in the renderer. How many samples are you rendering at?

What you are seeing is the Case casting shadows onto the device.

Use a regular Glass material on the back of the phone case add a fine bump map to make it appear cloudy.

You won’t even need the denoise.

BTW I used to render phone cases professionally. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Thank you for the tips

Thx for the tips. I will try it