[The Pixel Artist]

Yeah just saw this in the Maxwell gallery yesterday. LOVE IT!! Cool effect with the bump mapping.

"One teapot to rule them all, one teapot to find them, one teapot to bring them all, and in the darkness, LIGHT THEM!"

Ha ha ha, oh boy I'm a geek...

[evrinc]

I added the piano and allowed it to run until it reached level 18 - 72 hours

[victor]

how many light sources are there?

[evrinc]

Hi Victor,

There are 16 uplytes @ 18 faces each = 288 faces
152 downlights @ 16 faces each = 2432 faces
35 balcony lihts @ 12 faces each = 420 faces

203 lights total @ 3140 faces

gene

[evrinc]

oh and almost forgot - the little radial accent lights in the Canopy

321 @ 4 faces each = 1284 faces

Grand total

524 lights @ 4424 faces

[Mihai]

Oh my.......500+ light sources.....I am H.A.P.P.Y I preordered Maxwell

[smeggy]

Absolutely fantastic!

[evrinc]

Alf,

The interesting thing is that it reached level 15 in 22 hours and except for a little less noise the image quality was already a quite acceptable.

Gene

[evrinc]

Alf'

I meant to say ... except for a little more noise ...

[andronikos916]

great rendering - just the textures at the music scene is not good...

[evrinc]

Andronikos,

Yeah, if it's the piano you're referring to, I tossed one in I had kicking around and just applied a black plastic material.
At these rendering times I didn't do any test renders of the new piano object which brings up an interesting issue. If you have a complex scene which you've tested and set up to do a final render which is going to take some time and at the last minute decide to make a geometry change or addition, it sure would be nice to implement a region render to test a small area of the image - hint, hint

Gene

[Mihai]

Region rendering is already supported with Max

[evrinc]

Mihai,

Can Maxwell take advantage of Max's region rendering? I assumed not, so I haven't tried this.

Gene

[Mihai]

Sure I use it all the time.

[smeggy]

Yep, me too.