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by phile_forum
Wed Jun 03, 2009 10:18 am
Forum: General
Topic: Looking for a kitchen model
Replies: 3
Views: 3095

Re: Looking for a kitchen model

Thanks JQ! Saved my life.

P.
by phile_forum
Tue Jun 02, 2009 4:31 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Looking for a kitchen model
Replies: 3
Views: 3095

Looking for a kitchen model

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
by phile_forum
Fri Feb 20, 2009 1:37 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Web site updated
Replies: 1
Views: 2537

Web site updated

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
by phile_forum
Tue Jan 20, 2009 11:54 am
Forum: General
Topic: Lightwave 9.6 released
Replies: 9
Views: 5894

Re: Lightwave 9.6 released

About time... {fx: mutters} 9.5 bah! What were they thinking? {/mutter}
by phile_forum
Fri Sep 19, 2008 9:52 am
Forum: Help and Tutorials
Topic: Rendering to hdr
Replies: 3
Views: 3075

Re: Rendering to hdr

Ah, that's what I suspected was happening.

Thanky

Phil
by phile_forum
Thu Sep 18, 2008 11:24 am
Forum: Help and Tutorials
Topic: Rendering to hdr
Replies: 3
Views: 3075

Rendering to hdr

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 LW...
by phile_forum
Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:16 pm
Forum: Help and Tutorials
Topic: refraction causing glass to appear luminous
Replies: 4
Views: 3271

Re: refraction causing glass to appear luminous

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

Phil
by phile_forum
Sun Aug 17, 2008 1:40 pm
Forum: Help and Tutorials
Topic: Help! I have to animate a huge building!
Replies: 6
Views: 3393

Re: Help! I have to animate a huge building!

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.
by phile_forum
Sun Aug 17, 2008 1:09 pm
Forum: Help and Tutorials
Topic: Help! I have to animate a huge building!
Replies: 6
Views: 3393

Re: Help! I have to animate a huge building!

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, where...
by phile_forum
Sun Aug 17, 2008 12:16 pm
Forum: Help and Tutorials
Topic: Help! I have to animate a huge building!
Replies: 6
Views: 3393

Help! I have to animate a huge building!

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 to...
by phile_forum
Sat Aug 09, 2008 11:33 pm
Forum: Gallery - finished works
Topic: Interior Church using new Pro Arch vol1 info
Replies: 4
Views: 3606

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...
by phile_forum
Sat Aug 02, 2008 8:11 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Price about 3d work (architectural) ?
Replies: 47
Views: 34185

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 goes...
by phile_forum
Sat Jul 19, 2008 12:26 pm
Forum: Gallery - finished works
Topic: Another exterior
Replies: 9
Views: 5649

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 sun...
by phile_forum
Thu Jul 17, 2008 8:14 pm
Forum: Gallery - finished works
Topic: Another exterior
Replies: 9
Views: 5649

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
by phile_forum
Thu Jul 17, 2008 8:41 am
Forum: Gallery - finished works
Topic: Another exterior
Replies: 9
Views: 5649

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