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Another thing. You mentioned I shouldnt "Mix my Linear settings between Kray and Lightwave". Can you explain? Should both LW and Kray be using a Linear space?

Hello Janusz. Thank you for playing with the scene I sent. Your renders are looking good - but!- when I open your scene all the lights switch off! AGAIN!!! I am finding this a real pain. I opened your amended scene in LIghtwave and your lights didnt work. I replaced your lights exactly and the they ...

Hello Janusz. I have a file for you to check. I am still having trouble getting Kray to use the Lightwave lights. I have no idea why. I must say the glowing surfaces are making a beautiful light, but I need to produce TV studio lighting and need spotlights. The scene I have here is a preliminary and...

Hello Janusz. I would send you the scene file I am working on but not through the public forum as it is confidential (clients!). I still cant get the Lightwave lights to work in the Kray render. I have no idea why..... I have noted Kray chooses one light and ignores the others. Can this be switched ...

I still can't work out why none of my lights are illuminating. I have four overhead area lights to add a level of light and other area lights for typical uplighting, but none are switched on. Why?

Well, that was an excellent response - and fast too! May Newtek know on your door and offer you a billion dollars. You're worth it....

Hello. It seems Kray is best suited the scenes that have some component of external lighting. I was planning on using Kray to render scenes on TV and Film Sets that dont use exterior lighting. Is there a tutorial somewhere that describes the best way of setting up a scene using ONLY standard lights ...

I just realised I was trying to add the 32 bit Kray to my 64 bit LW. This would be a problem I suspect. I am new to Windows and only use Windows to run the 64 bit version of LW.

Brain not working, maybe.

I have installed LW 9.2 on my machine only to have a nice error message pop-up saying Kray requires version LW 9 or later to work.

Any ideas?

Just thought I would ask. I have recently installed Windows XP64 in my Mac Pro to take advantage of the hardware speed. It is very fast. All I need to do is bite the bullet and learn to usse Kray properly.

Cheers.

This render is what I want Kray to produce. It is 2500 x 1250 pixels rendered with FPrime Radiosity set at 200% with 2 bounces. The lights are as follows: 1 x Main exterior Spot 1 x Exterior Fill Spotlight 7 x Spots ov er kitchen 5 x Points over kitchen 1 x point in the "Gerkin Light" 1 x ...

Can I ask a potentially stupid question; How does Kray actually work? Does Kray replace the existing lighting and calculate the radiosity solution by replacing the lights with many localised lights? This might help me understand why I am getting weird results...

Cheers, Phil

I will post a sample of the render I am getting and stats today.

I really am looking forward to getting Kray to do what I want it to do, considering i have a number of animations to create this week and I understand Kray is a super fast animator.

Cheers.