[victor]

It's working fine. You will see.

No moonlight...by now...

[dd_]

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[Olivier Cugniet]

It's working fine. You will see.

that's great news Victor

[3dtrialpractice]

Mike is serious on NDA considerations, thank you.

Yes, the interface provides some controls to pick latitude, longitude, day, hour, GMT, etc. for the sky. There is a sky preview in real time in the viewports, a 3D Earth to pick the location directly and see shadow zones. The viewport also shows the direction of the sun in the compass.

What!
Wow! that really made me jump for joy, esp the 3d earth and a Big suprise being the sun direction inthe compas!!
wow
wow

ok my heart is reacing now!
-thanks victor!


-ps small detail in question. would an elevation above sea level make sence to have? since should there be less atmospere the higher the elvation hence, a deeper bluer/blackish sky? what are other ppls opinion on this? I know that Hervé had also requested this..
maybe a poct rc5 addition?

-thanks again Victor/mike for your updates images and posts

[Olivier Cugniet]

-ps small detail in question. would an elevation above sea level make sence to have? since should there be less atmospere the higher the elvation hence, a deeper bluer/blackish sky? what are other ppls opinion on this? I know that Hervé had also requested this..
maybe a poct rc5 addition?

yes, could be very interresting, some cheat to vary the athmosphere and thus the color of the sky

[Maximus3D]

Mmm.. now this is getting interesting the new sky system sounds very nice so far and if a moon is implemented then i don't know what to say hehe. Maybe we get to see a tasty testrendering of the new physical sky in action soon or.. ?

/ Max

[3dtrialpractice]

Actually, i'm going to use Maxwell for animations only. That's why
i really hope they will get mblur and animation rendering working.
And network rendering aswell. Must thing to have.

Usually i don't need to render large images. Pal reso 720x576 will
be just fine for me for tv commercials. So if i can get Maxwell rendering
Pal frames in speed like 30min/frame, that's all i need. There is no other
renderer able to do that with this quality.

And i really would like to see that good old bounce control back. In some
cases it could speedup rendering so much, without noticeable difference.



-LarsSon

-I will post a animaion very soon that I've worked done at first back in september, then i had to work on other projects, now over xmas I had gon back an revamped the animaion still using beta engine, I render at 720x540 (sq pixls) and I wont let my frames render for more than 40min, I've found that I reach 11 sample in about 22-25min and thats where ive been rendeing too 11 samples, becasue withan animation (its an outdoor animation) anything over 11 samples just reduces noise in shodows, and for this animaiton where my camera is moving almost constantly you cant see the difference in motion between something rendered at16 smpls compared to something rendered at 11 sampls, so ive been very please at rendering 1 frame at 25min a frame. for the quality i get with maxwell, and also because i dont have to spend time compositing many different render layers. I've tried to use motion blur, but i do render with alpha and motion blur just totally messes up the alpha channel right now, so all my motion blur is done in post.
-ohh ps i get great results with 11 samples becasue I use NO dialectics, I rarely ever have need for dielectics nor caustics, nor do I ever hardely have any emmiters besides for sun, so at 11 samples my scenes are satisfing..

with mike's post saying that maxwell developers see animaiton as a Must , im very confident on the future of animaiton for maxwell..

just my $.02

[Becco_UK]

I'm eye weary after reading this long subject.

My only question is will we get to see a high poly scene render using a variety of materials before RC5 is released or can it only cope with small models in boring boxes?

[Jozvex]

Wouldn't you rather get RC5 sooner and do the great renders yourself?

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It looks like the spheres in a box were 4 - 8 hour renders, so perhaps not.

No, he said about a gazillion times that he just set them to render over night. His computer can't determine the prettiness and then cancel the renders by itself while he's sleeping. People around here are addicted to negativity like a drug. You'll go through withdrawal symptoms if a good renderer is given to you.

[ajlynn]

Cinema4D's sun/sky system has the moon and stars, and a realtime preview, but no globe to click on. I certainly look forward to an easier to use Maxwell version.

I don't need a globe. Just make sure that Buttzville, NJ is an option.

[Duncan]

Mike is serious on NDA considerations, thank you.

Yes, the interface provides some controls to pick latitude, longitude, day, hour, GMT, etc. for the sky. There is a sky preview in real time in the viewports, a 3D Earth to pick the location directly and see shadow zones. The viewport also shows the direction of the sun in the compass.

So this realtime preview in the viewport does it allow me to transform it
like I would a light and object ? I don't want to plug in stupid latitude longitude numbers, I just need to position it like I would an object, for the best looking result.

[mverta]

Yes. You control it by moving around the 3D Earth... little hard to describe. You'll see. And a lot of architectural visualizers tend to find those stupid latitude and longitude coordinates useful from time to time.

_Mike

[noseman]

You could always use "Google Earth" and find your Longtitude-latitude with amazing accuracy!

[Duncan]

Yes. You control it by moving around the 3D Earth... little hard to describe. You'll see. And a lot of architectural visualizers tend to find those stupid latitude and longitude coordinates useful from time to time.

_Mike

Yep its great if your doing sun studies, but most of the time
I just want to place the sun in the best position for the building.
Having to figure locations and time can be a big waste of time.

I'm interested in seeing how moving this 3D earth will work
If I can see the shadow and sun light in realtime just by rotating the earth that will be cool. Not having to punch in lat, long, date and time, I'll be happy

cheers