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I like it! I would work on the tonemapping a bit though, so that the dark areas appear a bit brigher - they are a bit muddy right now and the design has a spatial quality that is nice: the corners and nooks deserve to be seen as well !

Thomas

This could also depend very much on the settings. If I render some scenes on the high settings (ones with lots of refraction and reflection - I had to do a scene with a pool of water with a glas compartment in the middle with transparent mountain crystals in it!) my computers stalls as well.

Hi! Good to see you are making progress with Kray! Some pointers: 1) If the roof is made of steel, and with the sunlight falling as it is, there should be a strong specular reflection somewhere, which is missing now (unless you would paint your steel roof in a supermatte paint, but then it wouldn't ...

Looks good!

Damn Janus, next project I'm going to ask you for some assistance too if you don't mind Those are stellar rendertimes for this quality! I wish I could post more stuff in the gallery, but I'm always working under NDA so I can't show anything... Too bad.

Cheers,
Thomas

Very nice renders!

I love these houses, actually. I used to live at the foot of a hill when I was young, and the top of the hill was lined with this style of luxury 60s and 70s bungalows - I always dreamed of living in one of these!

Excellent work!
Thomas

The LightWave manual is pretty sparse when it comes to IES lights, so I had to explore. It turns out that funny things happen when you change the light size, both in LW and in Kray. Check it out for yourself! Does anyone have any clue as to why this happens - and is it a bug or a feature? Cheers, Th...

I just render out from a single point using a camera with a 90 degrees field of view and a square image proportion. Then I render top, bottom, front, back, left and right. When you map these onto a cube you get a perfect 360 view (that even gives the impression of some perspective distortion when ro...

You must be doing something wrong, because it looks as if Kray isn't even rendering using radiosity. Did you choose 'photonmapping' as the render method or is it still just at 'raytracing' (this is on the general tab). Also, go to the plugins tab and enable 'physical sky', just for laughs. I'm sorry...

Hi! Very nice render! Just put some fresnel effect on some surfaces to make it even better: for instance, on the porcelain sink in front the side that is perpendicular to the camera and the side that is at a glancing angle have the same amount of reflection: normally the frontal side (perpendicular ...

Hi Jure, Thanks for the answers, fast as always! What I meant with the size parameter of IES lights was that in the LightWave Renderer ( not in Kray ) IES lights render differently when you change the SIZE parameter ( not in the Lights properties, but just in Lay-Out like the move and rotate paramet...

Hi! Another day, another question of mine - just learning Kray :) . 1) I want to include IES-lights in a scene but in all my setups ( not only this specific scene ) my IES lights are completely overblown. I don't know if there a whole lot to do about this because as I understand it IES lights are ju...

Hi there! I'm in the habit - still learning - of using the low, medium and high standard settings a lot. Is this a good or a bad idea? I know it's okay to start, but sometimes I see Janus or Jure tweaking scenes like hell and getting stellar results AND render times, and I get the idea that the 'hig...

I'm reading and learning so much here that I have to ask, because the bug with window blocking some stuff etc.. are puzzling me. I have a building that I want to render interiors from, with much glass windows. I want to use the sun and physical sky for starters, and would need SkyPortals/LightPortal...

Can I ask, where did you use the area lights?

I presume that you used physical sky with sun for the light falling through the window, 1 area light extra for the window and 2 area lights inside to brighten up things. Am I correct?

Thx,
Thomas

I agree! You can get wonderful results with instancing as it is now, and it works very well - thank you!!! :-) I was just asking because the term 'custom-object' usually implies in LightWave that you can use some sort of simpler visual representation for something, so I thought the functionality was...