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by CHRIS.PI3
Thu May 09, 2013 3:39 pm
Forum: Help and Tutorials
Topic: Bake shadows?
Replies: 9
Views: 5736

Re: Bake shadows?

bake the texture with override mode If I understand correctly this would allow i.e. the baked map of a later frame to blend (multiplied or added or whatever) with the saved map of a previous frame (and not overwrite it completely).If this is the case then it's exactly what I am looking for! Thanks ...
by CHRIS.PI3
Thu May 09, 2013 2:57 pm
Forum: Help and Tutorials
Topic: Bake shadows?
Replies: 9
Views: 5736

Re: Bake shadows?

Thanks, My first thought was texture baking but it doesn't work if I blend all the frames in PS , that's why I mentioned shadow catcher so that I could have the fully rendered scene in the first layer and all the frames with shadows (shadow catcher) in blend above the first layer. Anyway , a solutio...
by CHRIS.PI3
Thu May 09, 2013 1:32 pm
Forum: Help and Tutorials
Topic: Bake shadows?
Replies: 9
Views: 5736

Bake shadows?

Hi ! I have a project where I need to see if some surfaces are in shadow during the year .More specific I need to also be able to judge how much in shadow they are , i.e. total black if they are >70% in shadow during the year and light grey if they are <5% of the time.I don't need radiosity or soft ...
by CHRIS.PI3
Fri Mar 22, 2013 4:26 pm
Forum: Help and Tutorials
Topic: Exterior setup scene for a contest
Replies: 9
Views: 6632

Re: Exterior setup scene for a contest

You do not need Path Tracing for renders - this is just commercial action - the QUALITY comes not from Brute force but from Surfaces ,good light, design and skill. You don't get it , I don't think Kray's target group are experts in lighting , surfacing and setting up render engines with 100s of pag...
by CHRIS.PI3
Fri Mar 22, 2013 11:34 am
Forum: Help and Tutorials
Topic: Exterior setup scene for a contest
Replies: 9
Views: 6632

Re: Exterior setup scene for a contest

I think that in most exterior scenes there is so much light available that you can brute force it. In fact i played a little with a Maxwell demo and was blown away by the speed and quality. On a side note I think Kray 3.0 should make it's material system similar to Maxwell. That is a few realistic b...
by CHRIS.PI3
Mon Feb 11, 2013 4:26 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Your prefered modelling software?
Replies: 10
Views: 10041

Re: Your prefered modelling software?

Most important is what do you need to model and what you are doing it. For Archviz stuff lw+lwcad is a no brainer , even if you take into account other tempting solutions like archicad+cinema4d or revit+3ds max (given you have the cad files from the architect). For uses other than visualization you ...
by CHRIS.PI3
Sat Sep 29, 2012 1:19 pm
Forum: Help and Tutorials
Topic: Z-buffer on transparency mapped polys
Replies: 3
Views: 3055

Re: Z-buffer on transparency mapped polys

Have you tried with a clipmap?

Chris