[m-Que]

Good morning!


An here's Darren Aronofsky 'The Fountain' style :

[Bubbaloo]

Cool images. OK, how?

[Half Life]

Nice

[polynurb]

bravo!

[chaad]

Nice volume light ! Post-production ?

[m-Que]

Thanks guys! Glad you like it.

Nice volume light ! Post-production ?

The volume lights are 100% Maxwell-made (no post)

[chaad]

Thanks guys! Glad you like it.

Nice volume light ! Post-production ?

The volume lights are 100% Maxwell-made (no post)

realy nice volume ! long time to render ?

[m-Que]

realy nice volume ! long time to render ?

No, not really.
It's actually the geometry (in this case, the trees) that effects the render time:
The more complicated it is - meaning the harder it is for the light to get behind the object - the longer it takes.

[djflod]

Cool images. OK, how?

yes very very cool ...

HOW ?

[chaad]

Oui. Mais comment ?

[m-Que]

Cool images. OK, how?

yes very very cool ...
HOW ?

Oui. Mais comment ?

Sorry guys, forgot to share the 'recipe' with you:
Basically, it works the same way as it did in 1.7 - it's the object within the small SSS box, BUT here's a tricky part - it doesn't work with Physical Sky (or IBL), it's just the emitter.
But no worries - thanks to Fire + Color Multilight you can mask the emitter as the 'real' sun pretty quickly and get a decent results like in the first picture
As for the second pic - there's no tricks in there;
Another thing to be aware of(for now) - there's a bug with an alpha maps placed within the SSS:http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... 13&t=36636
so if you want to play with trees, grass etc. it might be a 'little' problem (but I heard of 2.6, so I hope it will be fixed in it )

Well, that is pretty much it

[chaad]

Cool images. OK, how?

yes very very cool ...
HOW ?

Oui. Mais comment ?

Sorry guys, forgot to share the 'recipe' with you:
Basically, it works the same way as it did in 1.7 - it's the object within the small SSS box, BUT here's a tricky part - it doesn't work with Physical Sky (or IBL), it's just the emitter.
But no worries - thanks to Fire + Color Multilight you can mask the emitter as the 'real' sun pretty quickly and get a decent results like in the first picture
As for the second pic - there's no tricks in there;
Another thing to be aware of(for now) - there's a bug with an alpha maps placed within the SSS:http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... 13&t=36636
so if you want to play with trees, grass etc. it might be a 'little' problem (but I heard of 2.6, so I hope it will be fixed in it )

Well, that is pretty much it

oh. i have the same problem with sss in the last version (http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... 13&t=36636)

[kami]

would you share your scene and material settings?
I tried to reproduce the effect but didn't get anything except fireflies. (using only an emitter and no other light sources).

[m-Que]

I'm not sure if still have that scene, but I must have saved the the MXM; I'll check.

[jfrancis]

excellent