[Mihai]

What is the difference between aperture-shaped glare and the already-implemented aperture-shaped bokeh?

Bokeh is there because of the depth of field. Aperture diffraction is caused by the fact that there is no such thing as a perfect lens, and all those tiny imperfections lead to light interference patterns when the light goes through small openings. At least that's how I've understood the process....if you're more interested you can google for fraunhoffer diffraction. Though I tried doing that and my brain went on strike for a few days....

[Xlars]

Works particularly well on the light fittings!

Extremely useful in my industry of Architecture.

Yes, this is very nice. Also the sea-render glare looks very realistic.

[Xlars]

Yup, the only concern I have is this will become the new misused, overused feature of CG rendering

Yes, I also fear to see many coming images with exaggerated glare .. most times the most realistic is just a hint, barely visible imo.

[ludenhud]

Can we expect more announcements in the coming days? And how many of them is it supposed to be? Great to have a daily thing to look forward to.
Cheers

[Mihai]

i got it all wrong..i was asked what's the renderhit (what was it called again? multiplyer of hunchback or smth?) in this 70's feature

The multiplier of drawback this time depends on image size. I haven't measured it exactly but for an image of say 800x600 it takes about 30 seconds. But it's supposed to get much more optimized after the 1.0 release.

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[acquiesse]

Hi,

So presumably these effects are caused naturally through the mechanism of a traditional SLR and photographic film....

Will we be able to choose "the effect caused by a Canon A1" as a preset?

Or have to learn some tutorials about which shape to use in which situation?

Thanks for the images, they're all all fantastic!

Regards,

Mark

[MarkM]

Thats sweet!

[ajlynn]

Thanks for the info Mihai. This looks pretty cool.

[KRZ]

[3dtrialpractice]

I was wishing for glares/glows/glints in v1 BUT NREVER really EXPECTED THEM!!!!

THE last 2 days suprises with AGS and Glares have Really BEEN AWSOME!!

THANKS to A team for their renders -they are amazing PROMO Prenders for the new system!!!

I CANT WAIT TO GET v1!!!!!

WOW

-Luke

[markps]

NL programmers are on fire!!!!! How's that to change one's mind?

Now they are right in front of the goal.. they just need to kick the ball. Lets see if they don't let us down next week.

[Jozvex]

Too much you think?



Hehe. I lost my scene somewhere in there!

[luka 3d]

It's Glaringly obvious.

[Axe]

So what does an "eyelash" map look like? Could you post some examples of the maps used to obtain the promo images?

So far these features make Maxwell look really exciting! I just hope it's stable, and can achieve low noise levels in reasonable time.