[ivox3]

that was funny. I was about ready to quit rendering altogether if that wasa render .... LOL

....yeah, i've seen some pretty nice texture work, many people, but mane162 sticks out for doing particularly nice exterior decay(like your photo)
--- very natural.

later G. i3.

[daimon]

Hello, how you manage to get such a nice glass, can you post what you did with the glass, what kind of light you are using?

Thanks
D.

[goncalo]

Hy Daimon

The light of that scene is just physical sky + direct sun

The glass is a trick

1 st i made the render without glass

2 st i make another render with light inside and replace the glass by a mirror to get the image reflex from inside. the i mounted in a image editor. to looks like the glass is there with the real reflexes. This is a way to fix the bug of the glass on Maxwell.

[Hervé]

Hy Daimon

The light of that scene is just physical sky + direct sun

The glass is a trick

1 st i made the render without glass

2 st i make another render with light inside and replace the glass by a mirror to get the image reflex from inside. the i mounted in a image editor. to looks like the glass is there with the real reflexes. This is a way to fix the bug of the glass on Maxwell.

pretty nice trick if you ask me....

[goncalo]

Ok so here is the TRICK of GLASS to fix the bug until the final release.

1st the image of maxwell


2st the image made with glass in mirror settings


3st remove just the glass zone in to a layer


4st is the background image of the real place


5st FINAL IMAGE



I HOPE IT HELPED SOMEONE...

[oz42]

goncalo,

great glass tutorial, this should get around the problem until release 1, thanks.

[KRZ]

id feel dirty doing "hacks" like that;) but if the timedoctor says so what can we do

[daimon]

thanks a million goncalo its a very nice trick, i really thought that maxwell was capable of rendering the whole scene without doing compositing. I never use the software since we are (boss) still thinking about if we are going to buy it .

Daimon

[goncalo]

KRZ - i really don't understand your point.... this is a way to help when the bug is not fixed, i don't fell dirty to improvise a way to fix this bug and make my work... is my profession... we must find solutions

Daimon - I think you should buy it... Maxwell is a great software, and this is only a beta version but will be release the final version, without bugs, and in that time maxwell will capable of rendering the whole scene without doing compositing... the bug will be fixed.

oz42 - i m glad that you liked the solution... and have benefict for someone

[KRZ]

please dont get me wrong i never wanted to adress you personaly..i meant it in a way like: "there goes the unbiasedness" or something along like that:) post is necessary i know and i use it if i have to. but i still hope that this render someday can make post not necessary anymore if photorealism is the goal

[goncalo]

KRZ

[iandavis]

KRZ,

regardless of the rendering technology, unbiased or not, compositing is a fact of life. There isn't a single film or commercial production I know which didn't utilize many, many layers to create the final image. Compositing isn't cheating, it's simply a way to achieve the image that you want.

Once maxwell CAN do realistic glass some people (myself included) may still composite simply to increase my level of control over the final image.

I'm not trying to be nasty... it's just I don't find compositing and 'unbiased'ness to be mutually exclusive, and to think that one would be doing themselves a disservice.

rant over.

Ian

[hdesbois]

great trick ! I just hope we don't need it any more in a few days...
Thanks for the tutorial anyway.
HD

[goncalo]

NEW TRICK FOR C4D users


For those who also work in C4D they also could do one thing, make a render with C4D of the scene and go to render settings and enable Multi-Pass Rendering and in the part of channels set add all image layers, then open in image editor and just take the reflexes on windows...

In this way you have better results, because the reflexes are made from the light that comes from outside, and the other trick the reflexes come from the light inside.

For those who use others softwares maybe have the same thing, using multi channels renders.

IANDAVIS thanks for explain this point it better then me

Hdesbois I also hope we don't need any more soon.

[giacob]

KRZ,

regardless of the rendering technology, unbiased or not, compositing is a fact of life. There isn't a single film or commercial production I know which didn't utilize many, many layers to create the final image. Compositing isn't cheating, it's simply a way to achieve the image that you want.

Once maxwell CAN do realistic glass some people (myself included) may still composite simply to increase my level of control over the final image.

I'm not trying to be nasty... it's just I don't find compositing and 'unbiased'ness to be mutually exclusive, and to think that one would be doing themselves a disservice.

rant over.

Ian

u are not nasty u are just senseless.... u climb to mirrors to justify the unjustifiable.. a render that call itself umbiased and photorealistic and that does not allow one to rapresent direct light enter a room through glasses without resorting to tricks....
maxwell can do realistic glasses. !!???. ahahahahaha quite a laughable statemen
u better state: maxwell can do realistic glass only under certain circumstances.. that is true