- Wed Sep 18, 2013 2:29 pm
#370964
Thanks to everyone for the comments/advices... I've been working on a work-related deadline so I was not able to properly reply.
Now... as for the Christmas scene unfortunately there's still too much noise (while the appearance of the lights greatly improved) and right now I'm pretty much sure it won't be ready for the deadline. I think I'll keep it for Christmas greetings this year (maybe by that time I'll have the standalone full version... or even the suite ).
The Milano scene is progressing well...
I replaced the plant, made the glass dome thicker (it was 2mm now is 4mm), changed the emitters and the format. So here's the results (SL 20)
Now the major question. I placed three emitters (circular planes) because I wanted to create some shadows (particularly on the plant and on the pigeon) using incident lights on some particular planes (for ex. the pigeon head). I'm still working on the intensity of those but I noticed that (obviously) they started showing up in the dome reflection, which I have to admit I'm still not sure I like it.
I read about invisible emitters, but as far as I understand they don't come in the standalone plugin.
As moving them could highly modify the shadowing, does anyone have some trick to suggest?
Thank you.
@Mihai: I didn't use an indoor HDR environment as I've built up a room with a window (and I've been using an exterior HDR image for the lights and reflections), but I'm planning to add some simple furniture on the back of the POV in order to reflect on the dome.
@Astroman: don't worry I didn't take it as an inavsion of my post. The subject was interesting for me as well, so I didn't mind.
(P.S.: I hope this entry will keep up with the other great work I'm starting to see in the other posts.)
Now... as for the Christmas scene unfortunately there's still too much noise (while the appearance of the lights greatly improved) and right now I'm pretty much sure it won't be ready for the deadline. I think I'll keep it for Christmas greetings this year (maybe by that time I'll have the standalone full version... or even the suite ).
The Milano scene is progressing well...
I replaced the plant, made the glass dome thicker (it was 2mm now is 4mm), changed the emitters and the format. So here's the results (SL 20)
Now the major question. I placed three emitters (circular planes) because I wanted to create some shadows (particularly on the plant and on the pigeon) using incident lights on some particular planes (for ex. the pigeon head). I'm still working on the intensity of those but I noticed that (obviously) they started showing up in the dome reflection, which I have to admit I'm still not sure I like it.
I read about invisible emitters, but as far as I understand they don't come in the standalone plugin.
As moving them could highly modify the shadowing, does anyone have some trick to suggest?
Thank you.
@Mihai: I didn't use an indoor HDR environment as I've built up a room with a window (and I've been using an exterior HDR image for the lights and reflections), but I'm planning to add some simple furniture on the back of the POV in order to reflect on the dome.
@Astroman: don't worry I didn't take it as an inavsion of my post. The subject was interesting for me as well, so I didn't mind.
(P.S.: I hope this entry will keep up with the other great work I'm starting to see in the other posts.)