Render Battle #6 - Coffee time ☕(Winner gets a real Prize!)

MichaelPascoe · January 2025

Render Battle #6 - Coffee Time!

It's time to kick off 2025 and welcome everyone to the sixth Onshape unofficial render battle!
All forum users are welcome to participate and or judge the renders. (The Onshape team included. 😎)

Prize!!

1st place will receive the very first, official Render Battle ~~Jersey~~ Hoodie! The hoodie comes in two options which the winner can choose either (color) or (dark) and it will be ordered to size and shipped to the winner as soon as the battle ends. 2nd place will not get a hoodie, but they will achieve the mentionable Buzz Aldrin Award =).

How it works:

Whoever creates the most legit render using this Coffee Mug will win the battle!
The winner will also be added to the Render Battle "Hall of Fame" list for all future battles.

Rules:

Render must fall into the specified topic.
You may use the provided pre-modeled studio or your own. Feel free to model any additions to make your renders stand out!
Use Render studio or reality server for rendering.
Have fun!

Voting:

Render submission date March 1st 2025.
All entries must be submitted here before the submission date.
Anyone can vote!
- Voters account must be created before the date of this post to deter self or friend voting.
- Votes must be from relatively active forum members, not newly created accounts.
Voting will last for 1 week after the submission date.
The render with the most votes wins. (Tie breakers will be determined by likes.)

Hall of Fame:

Winners of previous Render Battles:

Winner of Render Battle #1 - June 2022 - @sebastian_glanzner
Winner of Render Battle #2 - November 2022 - @Axel_Kollmenter
Winner of Render Battle #3 - June 2023 - @richard_doyle
Winner of Render Battle #4 - September 2023 - @MichaelPascoe
Winner of Render Battle #5 - December 2023 - @bryan_lagrange

sebastian_glanzner · February 2025

Render Battle #6 - January 2025 - Sebastian.png

@MichaelPascoe Nice challenge!
I tried my best to render coffee in a glass mug.

For anyone wondering how to improve the rendering of a fluid in a glass, you have to make the fluid bigger so it overlaps a bit with the mug. Adding a radius on the edge of the fluid helps to make it look more realistic.

MichaelPascoe · March 2025

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Technically GPT and Grok don't have Onshape accounts created before the battle started. However the goal is to have fun, so I'll count their votes. 😎

Final vote count:

#1 (1 vote)
#2
#3 (5 votes)
#4 (5 votes)
#5
#6 (4 votes)

This is a 2 way tie between myself and @sebastian_glanzner!

While we are on a roll of having fun, I'm not going to break the tie with likes. We'll just have to take turns wearing the hoodie. 😁
I'll dm you for your preferred hoodie size, color, and shipping address.

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🎉🎉Congrats @sebastian_glanzner for winning your second render battle! 🎉🎉
Hey, that makes 2 for both of us now.

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Thanks to everyone for participating. This was an epic render battle! I look forward to seeing you around.

bryan_lagrange · January 2025

Here is an early unofficial entry. 😉

MichaelPascoe · January 2025

Thanks for kicking us off @bryan_lagrange! This is going to be fun!

It's time to up the stakes a bit. This year, the 1st place winner is going to receive a custom print Render Battle 2025 ~~jersey~~ hoodie. 😎

sebastian_glanzner · January 2025

@bryan_lagrange nice rendering! Could you add a read heart between "I" and Onshape?

MDesign · January 2025

that is a loud hoodie…haha

MichaelPascoe · January 2025

@MDesign brings up a good point, in case the winner want's something slightly less loud, but still loud =P. I've made a dark mode option for the hoodie prize:

MichaelPascoe · January 2025

Man this steam is difficult. I can't seem to make a custom texture either, no images show up when i import bitmap with either function. There really needs to be a "Custom texture" texture that quickly lets us choose different settings and assign a simple image, normal, bump, etc…

Here is a test render just playing around:

Test Render Battle #6 - Entry (Pascoe).png

Hellessey · February 2025

Hey! First post on the Onshape forums, I'm pretty active on the subreddit and often find answers here but somehow don't find myself here otherwise.

Anyway, I'm not sure how much smoke and mirrors everybody else has to incorporate to get some of the incredible past results I've seen, but here is my own coffee mug, redone in Onshape.

Here is the actual mug from the store I bought it from. Really struggled to get the earthiness of the mug right, but pretty happy with the overall result!

MichaelPascoe · February 2025

That looks amazing @Hellessey, nice work! And welcome to the render battles 😎

Derek_Van_Allen_BD · February 2025

I tried to add creamer to the coffee and something went wrong, can someone help?

Render Battle #6 - January 2025 - Copy.png

MichaelPascoe · February 2025

Dang that's a lot of creamer! 🤣

Looks like your mug is made entirely out of coffee too, could be hard to handle irl.

But seriously, if you actually needed help, try not modeling the creamer, but just changing the color of the "coffee" to be lighter. I usually don't give away trade secrets until the end of the battle, but here is a hint:

Derek_Van_Allen_BD · February 2025

I'm just goofing, that's the dirty broth dense applied there but with way more water absorption factor because I like my coffee strong. Even if it is dirty broth. The real hangup is attempting to figure out volumetric modifiers to make the steam work but I can't seem to find a way to make that happen without involving reflectivity in some way.

sebastian_glanzner · February 2025

@MichaelPascoe Nice challenge!
I tried my best to render coffee in a glass mug.

For anyone wondering how to improve the rendering of a fluid in a glass, you have to make the fluid bigger so it overlaps a bit with the mug. Adding a radius on the edge of the fluid helps to make it look more realistic.

MichaelPascoe · February 2025

That's dope @sebastian_glanzner! Thanks for the tip, wouldn't have thought of that.

MichaelPascoe · February 2025

Here is my entry:
Everything is 100% Onshape. No pictures except the branding decals for the mug and the coffee bag.
I'll disclose my rendering tricks after the battle is over for anyone who is interested. 😉
Oh, and sorry for taking up half the page, the spoiler option has been broken lately so I can't collapse images into it.

Coffee maker

La Pavoni Lever Espresso Machines a public model by @john_hauck

Mug

I added the Meteor's logo to my mug using the new Decal tool in the part studio. This was my favorite coffee shop in Little Rock before they closed. The Meteor still exists in Bentonville: https://themeteor.cafe/bentonville

Coffee Bag

Community was the first coffee brand my wife and I got into. It isn't niche or locally roasted, but it's always there for you.
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bryan_lagrange · February 2025

🤯Wow! @MichaelPascoe

sebastian_glanzner · February 2025

Great work! @MichaelPascoe

bryan_lagrange · February 2025

🤣 @sebastian_glanzner you are in the lead because of the comedy.

MichaelPascoe · February 2025

Didn't know Onshape could render videos. 😉
This is pretty cool! https://imagetovideoai.io/
Words are hit or miss =P

john_hauck · February 2025

@MichaelPascoe wonderful work! Thank you for giving me credit on the modeling of the La Pavoni Stradivari. I will share this with the La Pavoni community. They will be thrilled to see your work!

MichaelPascoe · February 2025

Attention Render Battle participants.

💎10 Days Remaining!💎

Remember to get your renders posted here before March 1st.

🏆Do you have what it takes to bring home the hoodie prize?🏆

bryan_lagrange · February 2025

I"ll make this one my official entry.

Render Battle #6 - January 2025 - Copy(1).png

MichaelPascoe · February 2025

Scenic! Reminds me of a ski lodge in the mountains.
Ty for the entry @bryan_lagrange!

Ok, there are 9 document copies, so I know we have unseen renders waiting to reveal themselves. Let's see those beautiful mugs! 😎

Derek_Van_Allen_BD · February 2025

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/26915/improvements-to-onshape-february-21st-2025

Oh look at that, rendering volumetrics just dropped. Someone on the Onshape dev on the team must have seen this thread with all of the hackier attempts at making steam in engine and pushed this update specifically for this competition.

MichaelPascoe · February 2025

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There is still time to enter!! Only 4 days left! 😱

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Don't forget to try out the new volumetric render option to get that hot steamy action. That was such a pain the way I had to do it, really glad this is an option now.
And yes, re-submissions are totally allowed, especially when a new awesome volumetric tool gets announced.

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C_Ivey · February 2025

Hello all! I also have never posted on the forums before, but quite frequently find myself here for one reason or another. I've enjoyed seeing everyone's work in the previous render battles (and the work done for this one thus far), and I finally forced myself to make time so I could join in the fun for this one.

I decided to take the setting of my render in a slightly different direction. This is not using the new volumetrics rendering option, just some silly geometry, though maybe I ought to revisit this in the future for comparison.

Render Battle #6 - Perspective of the Ant.png

MichaelPascoe · February 2025

Ooo, sweet. It actually looks like it's falling!
That liquid is insane, must have taken forever to model. Spiffy looking cabinets as well, thanks for the entry! @C_Ivey

C_Ivey · February 2025

Modeling the liquid was very much the time sink. I ended up writing a couple featurescripts to help me with the particulate droplets and the thin lines of coffee, but the main body was a manually done mess.

MDesign · February 2025

Impressive to say the least

MichaelPascoe · February 2025

📢 Final Call 📢

Today is the last day to enter before voting starts!

MichaelPascoe · March 2025

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Voting is officially open!

Comment below with which #entry you liked the most.
Please take a moment to review the entries and the voting rules below:

Voting Rules:

Anyone can vote!
- Voters account must be created before January 23rd 2025 to deter self or friend voting.
  @Hellessey and @C_Ivey are exceptions for this rule, you were active participants in the battle so feel free to vote.
- Votes must be from relatively active forum members, not newly created accounts.
Voting will last for 1 week. Voting end date March 10th 2025.
You may vote for 1 entry.
Once voted, you may not change your vote.
The render with the most votes wins. (Tie breakers will be determined by likes.)

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