[pluMmet]

u.big listed a great set of alpha pics.
This one seems to best show how light in shadow areas is better:


This shows it well too: (Makes me want to go back to Alpha right away!)

from this thread: http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=903

[pluMmet]

now that I'm looking their are ton of examples: (Looking down the corridor at my local mall has the EXACT same lighting I'd expect from this structure)
My mind comes alive with this image and reminds me of why I bought M~R.

From: http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=895

just go to the gallery section all the way to the last page and start looking. Those are all alpha.

[KRZ]

another whiner left? good then.
maybe he learns a lesson if he finds history repeating

[ricardo]

bye bye, your photoshop hints will be missed.

Ricardo

[deadalvs]

and You guys are sure that this vivid light can not be achieved by the turbulence and water settings in the sky model ? or by placing the object nearer to the aequatorial degrees, meaning more south ?

these pictures look very greek ! fantastic light, yes... !

[Maxer]

This is a debate that is extremely hard to quantify because you’re dealing with peoples perceptions instead of hard facts. I think it's generally accepted that the Alpha/Beta versions of Maxwell produced more pleasing results but as to what made them different than what we're currently using is something only NL can answer. Since we don't seem to have this quality any longer I'd say that either they don't know how they did it or the current engine isn't capable of delivering the same quality.

[3dtrialpractice]

and You guys are sure that this vivid light can not be achieved by the turbulence and water settings in the sky model...

water setting in maxwell v1.1 has no effect on sky render

only turbidity and ozone have an effect...

This is something Ive posted in the bugs secton as of v1.0 and it was never fixed for 1.1.. I really hope thye redo the sky rettings/model because I feel it is obsolete .. like mental ray's new physical sky has setting that as very nice to have when rendering sky. .such as blue/red shift the abliity to change the color of the gradiretn as it approaches the goruns.. the haze factor.. and saturation intensity.. all very simple things which we cant control in M~R..

[pluMmet]

A saying I like:

God is like the wind. I can't see him but I can see his effects on the trees and life.


Another way to examine the changes from Alpha/Beta to RC/and on are the amount of people excitedly creating images in this forum.

[Hybaj]

Yes the Mental Ray's psychical sky is great. I always wanted such control since I started working with Maxwell since the beta. I mean it takes a single afternoon to code majority of the needed features. But it woudln't suprise me if the sky stayed the same even in the forthcoming 1.2. NL follows its own secret plan

[Maya69]

For explain my decision go to french forum

sorry is in french because my english is bad

http://www.maxwellrender.fr/forum/viewtopic.php?t=732

best regard

Beau Philippe

[x_site]

c ya around kid!!!

Since i purchased M~R i've started smoking; drinking heavily and took up a serious crack cocaine habit... i can no longer get through SL6 without shooting up!!!

[Leonardo]

[thxraph]

you got the point