Oh, to answer your offer. I will keep tying at it for another day to two. If I can't seem to solve it (I do enjoy the challenge, but at 50 I don't have the evergy I once did and have too many other distracting problems going on in my life) anyway, if I can't get it in another day or so then I might take you up or your offer. I haven't been on IRC for years though. Have to figure that out again too.
Henry On 8/6/09, Henry Tjernlund <[email protected]> wrote: > I think that I did go over the GI section of the user manual. I also > looked at some tutorials on the subject. Plus I am try to apply (and > maybe partly where my problems are) the strategies I developed with my > old version of C4D-R8. I might have to learn a whole different set of > strategies for use with RS as its render engine seems to work quite > differently. > > And I am using the magazine offer of RS-5 and not the latest version. > As I live in near-poverty I am limited to what software I can get in > special offers. I bought 3D World for the RS offer. My C4D is an > academic version so I have felt odd about trying to use it for any > paying work, which is rare anyway. And, "no," I don't use pirated > copies of software. Yes, I know that that seems expected and that it > limits me and works against me. But I won't do that. I know that I'm > even more of a misfit because of that attitude. > > On 8/6/09, Andrew Berge <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> There is really quite a lot I would need to go over, have you read the >> manuals section on Gi rendering yet ? It may be easier if you sent a >> copy >> of your project file and if we arranged to meet on IRC to discuss your >> problems.. >> >> Rgdsm >> >> Andrew >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Henry Tjernlund >> Sent: Thursday, 6 August 2009 5:17 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Teacup lighting >> >> Here are some tests from a more simple scene with trying to get the >> results >> that I want. >> >> Only three objects (not counting the camera) >> >> In the GI materials level are >> * Sphere with Porcelain material (like the teacups) >> * Rectangle "wall" with a matte (color only channel) material >> >> outside the GI level material is >> * rectangle shape to be reflected with self-luminous material applied. >> This object has been set to not be seen by the camera. >> >> Even with the not-seen-by-camera setting and the self-luminous rectangle >> outside the GI level, it still seems to contribute the same amount of >> light >> to the GI phase of the rendering. >> >> Yes, I am looking for an HDRI-like effect. I haven't figured out how to >> do >> that in RS yet. I have dabbled with it in C4D and love the results. But I >> also get nice (but different) results in C4D with just careful radiosity >> lighting too. So apparently I can't apply the same strategies I use in >> C4D >> to RS. >> >> A couple other questions. In the color rendering, the first upper-left >> section seems to have rendered more smoothly than the rest of the image. >> I >> have seen this happen in other projects as well. Its like some quality >> setting changes after that first box renders. >> >> Also the reflection channel gave unexpected results. I expected (as in >> C4D) that the reflection channel would give me just the reflection >> component >> of the render. But instead it looks like it is showing me the >> "reflectivity" >> of the object based on material and angle to camera, etc. >> >> Is there some other way to boost or multiply the reflection during >> rendering? Can a material be made that has unusually bright reflections? >> >> It would be nice of RS had something like a "sky" object, maybe as an >> infinite sphere like in the way it has an infinite ground plane object. >> >> Henry >> >> -- >> -- >> Henry Tjernlund >> http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/browse.php?username=henrytj >> http://www.modelmayhem.com/HenryTjernlund >> http://imdb.com/name/nm2519729/ >> http://www.myspace.com/henrytj >> http://henrytj.deviantart.com/ >> >> > > > -- > -- > Henry Tjernlund > http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/browse.php?username=henrytj > http://www.modelmayhem.com/HenryTjernlund > http://imdb.com/name/nm2519729/ > http://www.myspace.com/henrytj > http://henrytj.deviantart.com/ > -- -- Henry Tjernlund http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/browse.php?username=henrytj http://www.modelmayhem.com/HenryTjernlund http://imdb.com/name/nm2519729/ http://www.myspace.com/henrytj http://henrytj.deviantart.com/
