[tom]

[Bubbaloo]

Eureka!

Type "-NegRender=1" at the command line.
Instead of starting noisy and gradually clearing, it starts perfectly clear and gets noisier! Amazing!

[Maximus3D]

hehe, this thread is entertaining. Please don't delete it

Ron: Great thread! thanks for your excellent tip, i gotta try it out asap...

/ Max

[RonB]

Man...you guys are making me feel worse.

Bubba...Guess I shouldn't write that 3D World article on the secrets of Maxwell...BTW, your article was great...Cheers for you!!

Really Embarrassed Ron

[Bubbaloo]

Man...you guys are making me feel worse.

LOL I've had plenty of those kinds of posts. The "oops, what was I thinking" kind. Nothing to do but laugh about it. And make fun!

[def4d]

RonB, you answer the question i had myself this week-end!
Thanks for your (messy) conlusions

[RonB]

What's life without a little *ucking up?

[JCAddy]

This thread is amazing. lol

Thanks Ron!

[Rochr]

I´ve seen some tricks using negative emitters for SEM-like renders.
Although this was back in the old Bryce days, it generated some really cool results.
It would be great to see something similar in Maxwell.

[Maximus3D]

A nerdy approach on this i guess you could say that negative emitters sucks in light, they should be called "Suckers" and they should be physically accurate, as they exist in outer space where we know them as blackholes. So.. NL, get to work and code us some blackhole "emitters".

/ Max

[polynurb]

So.. NL, get to work and code us some blackhole "emitters".

/ Max

exactly... then light can be bent too... don't you think it's a little boring these rays always go straight..

[GavinScott]

Well, couldn't you do a negative emitter as a post effect in Photoshop? Just add your "Sucker" as an ordinary positive light, render with multilight, then output two images one with the normal lights and one only with the negative light, then subtract the two in ps or perform some similar operation?

Seems like it might actually not be that hard to have the multilight system let you pull a light below zero too.

G.

[Richard]

So.. NL, get to work and code us some blackhole "emitters".

/ Max

Hmmm? Would they still be called "emitters"? I think the suckers idea sticks "light suckers" - something for the next star wars feature!

[Bubbaloo]

something for the next star wars feature!

Maxwell Render Episode II

[kami]

exactly... then light can be bent too... don't you think it's a little boring these rays always go straight..

that's a good question ... in these days my renderings go way too fast. they need an extra challenge

+1 for black holes