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Override Automatic Bounce Settings
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 3:09 pm
by Ric_535
Sometimes my interiors seem to be a little (or a lot) washed out because of too high automatic bounce settings
I think its a really great idea to have auto bounces but sometimes i think the human makes a better judge than the computer and for certain scenes less bounces would be satisfactory
So i dont want to get rid of the auto settings just to have an option to override it if one wished
Thanks
comments welcome
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 3:37 pm
by Maximus3D
Good one Ric, i agree
/ Max
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 4:52 pm
by jc4d
I second that.
It would be nice see the human eye "imperfection" in my own renders.
JC
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Maxwell BETA 1.2 (not working)
Cinemaxwell 0.5 (so so)
Cinema4D R9
MacOS 10.3.9
G4 Dual 867
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 7:53 pm
by n1tram
I agree too. Lets not be lazy and do something! Maxwell does enough al ready
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 4:53 pm
by Hervé
sicro wrote:Sometimes my interiors seem to be a little (or a lot) washed out because of too high automatic bounce settings
... really because of too many bounces?
I don't think so.
Did you try lowering ISO or shutterspeed, or increasing the Fstop?
Guessing the bounces appropriate for a scene is pretty much impossible.
The way the automatism for the bounces probably works, is to check after each bounce, how much energy the ray still has got and if it falls below a certain level then the bounces stop. It might be useful to be able to set this threshold value.
I don't think it is a good system.... why... see here...
http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... 9382#39382
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 12:27 pm
by Hervé
why...? coz if the engine decides it needs 100 bounces... well that might be a real drag... good I'm sure... , but exploded render times...
besides I want to be able to decide myself how many bounces I need or want...
nuf said....
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Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 5:38 pm
by rivoli
and it seems you keep getting the same answer.
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Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 6:19 pm
by rivoli
go on then, i'm with you.
Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 6:24 pm
by iandavis
perhaps I'm not understanding things, but doesn't reflectance affect the amount of light that bounces, AND the number of bounces?
check this out:
http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4583
It looks to me that you can exactly control how much light gets bounced around in a scene by controlling the luminance of a colour.
just a thot
Ian.
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