www.kraytracing.com

Thanks JQ! Saved my life.

P.

Hi all,

I've got a low-budget, urgent project to finish. The client wants a kitchen setting but there isn't the money either to buy one in or to model one from scratch.

Does anyone know where I can get a reasonably good kitchen interior model for free? There must be a few about...

Phil

Hi folks. As a shameless bit of self-promotion, I'd like to make it known that I have just revamped my web site.

In justification, I'd also like to mention that most of the images were rendered using Kray!

Do drop by if you have a minute.

http://www.planetindifferent.co.uk/

Cheers,

Phil

About time... {fx: mutters} 9.5 bah! What were they thinking? {/mutter}

Ah, that's what I suspected was happening.

Thanky

Phil

Maybe I'm missing something important here.

When I render to hdr with kray, the picture in the progress window is quite bright but when I load the finished render into LW's image editor it is much darker.

Is this becaise Kray is applying a gamma correction to the image in the progress window, but ...

I find refraction blurring does this unless the setting is very, very low (1-2%).

Phil

jure wrote:You can use LW in demo mode on other computers. Kray will still work.

Excellent: a chance to install 9.5 on a secondary machine and have a look at it! (can't risk upgrading from 9.3.1 on my working machine when I'm right in the middle of this!)

Thanks again!

P.

Thanks Jure, I'll get some experimenting done!
Gi sharing should work the way you described. I think you can even try without VirtualRender and just use many computers to render same scene with same LOAD GI file.
I only have one LW seat. Can I render on multiple machines using Kray.exe? If so ...

It's a monster. The building is 120m across, four storeys tall.

The client wants a fly-through of one floor. There are plenty of windows but the building is quite wide so natural light doesn't always make it right to the middle so i will need to put illumination inside.

What would be the best way ...

It has a nice calm feel to it. Good to see a church filled with light!

On a technical note: the grain on the arches looks wrong. I suspect they would be made from at least four parts (two uprights & then two spans which would join at the apex). The uprights would probably have vertical grain for ...

I dont agree with you with charging people according on your time spent working...lets face it, you could be a much much slower modeler then me, also you could be using Maxwell for rendering and I could be using Kray.
Its simply an individual thing!
Nonsense. If I quote on a job but the client ...

i have use your setup in my render but isn't good...
have you play with sunsky parameter?
Turbidity 4, horizon brightness 0.5 - all other settings default. Sun is a spot light 1km distant with inverse square falloff & a range of 1km. Set the colour to a warm yellow/orange. The blue from the sunsky ...

geo_n wrote:How did you make that grass on the foreground?

Nothing special about it. Just a flat plane with a texture map (from ambientlight). Anti-aliasing settings for Kray are Low, Quasi-random, 0.01,10,50, Nitchell.

Phil

Thanks for the comments.

Render time is 10 min on a 2.4GHz Q6600 (quad core). Most of that is down to anti-aliasing the polygonal plants I put in front of the buildings. If I'd used 2D plants, render time would have been just a couple of minutes.

Phil