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I want to model a condiment. It's call sambal. The red paste in the picture. It's a solid-liquid like sauce. How do I model this? A semisphere? Use a fluid modifier?

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  • $\begingroup$ I tried to use a open bottom hemisphere + displace modifier (type: clouds, size 0.21). Thats the similar shape I can get $\endgroup$
    – Ye En
    May 30, 2021 at 13:24

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Something along these lines?

Modelling

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  • Create a blob mesh for the general area of your condiment. This is a UV sphere, pulled around with Proportional Edit, with its mesh Header > Mesh > Transform > Randomized
  • Make the blob an emitter of a particle system.. All on frame 1, no physics, aimed at a small Collection of onion-bits in the particle-system's 'Render' panel. Play with the rotations, scales, etc.

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  • Once you're happy with the surface features,'Convert' the particle system to real instances in the modifier stack, and apply the modifier.
  • CtrlJ Join the ex-particles to the main mesh, and give it a Remesh modifier at a high enough resolution for your desired detail.
  • Here, I've Header> Mesh > Clean Up > Decimated the mesh.. and ..

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.. given it 1 level of Subdivision. You could obviously try other things, here, smoothing, relaxing, etc. So long as you back up destructive steps, you can feel your way through.

Shading

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  • Here, in Cycles, using an 'Inside' Ambient Occlusion input producing a wide greyscale over the surface, put through two color-ramps.The aim is to pull the onion pieces back out for different treatment.

  • The top mask is very hard, to control the base color of the material, keeping the orange to the onions.

  • The bottom mask biases the noisy bump map to the smooth areas, avoiding the onions.

  • The shader uses Subsurface Scattering, set to a low radius, to catch the onions more than the rest, and biased to yellow in the 'Radius': (0.6,0.6,0.2). Your settings will depend on the size of your model. (Recommend life-size)...

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.. with a few extra chunks of onion added to cover up the bits of the surface you don't like :)

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    $\begingroup$ That's what you call "Seasoned Advice" $\endgroup$
    – batFINGER
    May 30, 2021 at 17:44
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    $\begingroup$ ..@batFINGER Cookin' on gas, today, Mr. FINGER.. :) $\endgroup$
    – Robin Betts ♦
    May 30, 2021 at 17:48

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