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Juggernaut wrote:Doesn't seem to be working for me. Just a blank QT window pops up, but the play button is grayed out, and no time line. Basically can't do anything.

are you running Vista64 or XP64 by any chance, with QT 7.4.1?

Ok managed to find sometime to test skyportals on this scene, I decided to make a QTVR instead of a boring still :P Anyway, I split the skyportal "importance" 70:30% between the window and the door as in the real world your more likely to have more natural light coming through the window. ...

except wrote:I wrote a guide on that

And a very good one too.

Ever consider doing a kray orientated version

Very nice animation BTW.

Pheidian wrote:though skyportals seem to make them pretty much unneeded from what I've heard...

That is exactly the case, you can turn off Sky Portals visibility via the kray sky portal shader, but obviously Weepul's technique would still be useful in light map mode.

Haven1000 wrote:Bigstick: I'll post the settings when I get a minute.

apologies for taking so long to post this (been a bit busy).

What's with the noise over on the left? Something to do with the high backdrop skylight value, I'm going to apply the skylight to a dome and use the limit dynamic range in the KrayIndirectRays shader to see if clamping the value will make a difference, or I might just put a lumi poly in the window....

Hi,

Thought I'd try out the latest beta with the famous Brian Howard room.

Scene setup is spotlight for sun with skylight, most surfaces have some sort of reflection blur.

Using medium(ish) kray settings, nothing fancy, rendered on a 8-core MacPro.

Hi Mat,

I don't think you will have a problem with a lower resolution, the GI should be the same, I've tried 1/4 res and did not notice a difference.

If your after a one pass method with Kray you can always try "savegimode 1;"

http://www.kraytracing.com/forum/viewto ... =5037#5037

GI is resolution independent (AFAIK) so it shouldn't be a problem. I've done this in the past and have not had an issue.

Johny_quick wrote:

That's got to be the most manicured lawn that I've ever seen, but at this res I think there needs to be some more varied grasses at random size and colours, maybe some small flowers and of course what about the insects

_mats_ wrote:wow I am not seeing ANY of those new options.. but I upgraded to OB 6.1

any ideas?

That will be because it's a screen shot from OB1 or OB2

sepo wrote:As I understand one will need to provide extra geometry to define portals

Or you could just assign the glass geometry in external windows as skyports

Skyports are going to give a hugh boost to render times in photomap mode, can't wait
(not as much as Sliver though )

What does mean "Physically incorrect light model in scene with global illumination"?. If you have Ambient light set >0 or any lights not set to ^2 Kray will return this message. This does not change the functionality of kray, just a warning that the lighting in your scene is "less&qu...

Hi, for the kray logo just add "%kray" in the header.

You can find a list of other useful commands here:

http://www.kraytracing.com/manual/kray_commands

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