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Thanks a lot,
I should do a christmas tree with my taxes.

Guys, don't be afraid of nodes, I was back in 2009 but I jumped in progressively. First, just do you reflexion with nodes, then Colors, and so on. LightWave is nice enough to let you use both systems simultaneously. Once you get comfortable, try more and more things then you'll be killer, no doubt. ...

This shoulg go straight to gallery!

Jasusz, it's great to read that, passion always leads to incredible stuff. Maybe he should just team up with somebody with marketing skills and the same passion so the product could have more exposure, so he can have more reward for his hard work. Somebody who will not push him to places he doesn't ...

I agree, some hdri have very hot pixels that cn be real problem.
Limit DR could fix it, right?

I can be patient if it's bad a$$
I have expectations about buffers and file format (like DPX, EXR or EXR2)

you have made 1972 posts Janusz, isn't it the year you were born? ^^
I'm just like that, paying attention to details that don't matter that much

Hey Janusz, great stuff, what I really like about you is that you come up with new concepts all the time, before you were preaching skyportal, than lumi lights, then back to area and now QMC :) It's great because even though you produce great images, you still explore to make better work and it insp...

As always, really useful post Janusz, thank you!
Sometimes Lumi lights cannot be avoided, like when you do a LCD screen . How do you deal with it?

Thanks, I'll take a look at your concept. I almost never use Layer Surfacing, far too limitated. But tons of node in a scene takes time. I did a carbon fiber node rig once, pretty accurate and it was taking aaaaaAAAAges!

Hi Janusz, could you go mere in depth with "Fresnel with injected reflection map and inverted blur map + exclusion of diffuse" I don't really get what you mean.

Thanks

Man, it will be hard for you te get better, the level is already high!
You should showcase your work even more in other places, people need to know what good "artists" can do with a few tools.
Inspirational as usual

Yeah, it feels long, We need the new one!

Wow Janusz, I trust your sense of quality so the news sounds exciting! Empty scene with setups can be nice so people just load their objects and can try good settings. Already count me as a buyer :p By the way, when people compare render time, it's not really relevant unless they tell exactly what i...

I have to Agree, but your scene is pretty simple, not too many objects and not a lot of refraction reflection and reflection blur.
I'd like to see what results you get with much more complexe scenes.
Anyway, your render is really nice!