[markps]

The material library was a brilliant idea. everyone knew that people would try to copy it. As well as the physical sky, and many other great ideas originated by NL

Well, on this fierce competition. Patents are the soul of the business.

by the way how do I do this on maxwell? Is this done with displacement maps? And have you noticed the strange pattern of the background.. are those patches reflection?

[DrMerman]

<mumbles something about displacement...>



I think those patches are different grey colours (40% grey, 60% grey etc....) for some reason.

[Maximus3D]

They're all just a bunch of lousy copycats..

Anyways, that's rendertime micropoly displacement. You can't do that yet with Maxwell i wish and hope we will get that feature now very soon.

/ Max

[ivox3]

LOL ! I keep envisioning that object wearing lil tennis shoes for some reason and then uncontrollable laughter commences. .....good stuff, indeed.

[Frances]

LOL ! I keep envisioning that object wearing lil tennis shoes for some reason and then uncontrollable laughter commences. .....good stuff, indeed.

Darn! They pulled it off the web. I had some cute lil baby Nikes to put on it and everything.

[Jozvex]

And have you noticed the strange pattern of the background.. are those patches reflection?

I believe those patches are one of the great things we get to avoid by using Maxwell.....GI splotches! Also, I think I read that the first 'crispy' image rendered for 1.5 hours!

[markps]

Yep, that's what I was thinking it is... Vray renders look good but those dark or Light bloches are much too common on its renders. It ruins the whole thing.

And have you noticed the strange pattern of the background.. are those patches reflection?

I believe those patches are one of the great things we get to avoid by using Maxwell.....GI splotches! Also, I think I read that the first 'crispy' image rendered for 1.5 hours!

[Mihai]

The displacement is great, but shouldn't there be any caustics there, from all that irregular surface? Also it looks like it's floating a bit. Btw, give at least some credit where it is due, NL took the initiative and made this site, now everybody is doing the same. We've seen a lot of that lately

[Jozvex]

Caustics would be too much trouble, you'd have to actually set that up separately I think, hehe. And yeah, the MXM website is a great combination of ThomasAn + NL!

Mi~Hai is right.

[ivox3]

Bubblewrap? Bubblewrap caustics ?? This is way out of control.

[DrMerman]

Haha...it was bound to happen

[Hybaj]

Displacemeeeent ...

[j_man]

nice styrofoam, almost nice enough to eat!