I am trying to create a neon glowing fluorescent plastic material and I am struggling to get that edge glow effect in material only.
Example:
right now I am using a plastic (Cloudy) with a Curvature and a gradient set to viewing distance to affect the Roughness. I am struggling on the wide variety of see through little bit of green to the very vibrant on the edges of the cup.
Example:
I’d start with richardfunnell’s reply in the old forum here: https://forum.keyshot.com/index.php?topic=6436.0
I think your test render is pretty close to the main part of the plastic, I think splitting the edges and applying an area light material should get you the rest of the way
I looked at that forum post, but I was hoping to do everything as a single material. I need something the other artists to use, and breaking edges and applying different materials are a bit beyond them. If I did it that way then I would need to do every single one of these products myself.
I did take another crack at it and I used curvature to get the edges and used different shades of green from that as the Color Transmision.
Super fake and not perfect but easy to tweak, very simple single material.
I used a similar aproach like Oscar, but with the advanced material to drive the highlights.
At first try, advanced should be enough to create the material. But I didn’t liked the thing area (not the edges). So I also used the dielectric as a base.
Looks like you got some similar replies/approaches from the folks here. I did a tutorial on this topic some time ago: https://youtu.be/IYX6yfdhwq8
Hi. I played around with this a while back and had some success with just a simple transparent plastic material. I’ve included the scene in case anyone thinks this is a good starting point.
Color is set via Diffuse and Specular Transmission. I used 90-100% for Specular Transmission Value and 20-30% for Diffuse Transmission value, keeping the Hue the same for both.
Product Lighting with Caustics off seems to work best.
Solo cup is from Michael Christensen on GrabCAD: Solo Cup CAD
Could not upload the scene for some reason - so here is a link (expires December 31, 2025): Neon Plexi Test scene
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