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it's a logo of inflated type coming together combined with a bunch of primitive shapes. A soft body dynamics animation I worked on with somebody else actually. I haven't tried doing it in EIAS but I guess it could be done if the cloth plugin could work along and interact with the Bullet system. So you're saying that enabling Encage would render motion blur on child model cycling? I might get encage just for that.

Thanks for your reply Tom, that's great news about encage functionality for EIAS 10. I can't wait, although you know I've been saying I can't wait for years now. I've had to stretch the animation even longer to almost 1000 frames so almost 1000 child objects and now EIAS 9.1 is crashing on me after batch converting obj's to fact's which wasn't happening this morning. I can't send a simplified version since I need ALL models smooth when rendered. I've moved the render to Cinema 4d which is where the modeling took place and that's about all I can do. I really wanted to render in EIAS because of its nice motion blur but I just learnt also that motion blur doesn't work with child cycling so moving the render to Cinema makes total sense now. Thanks again.

Hi. I have a question about Encage. I have a project that uses the child cycling feature in EIAS 9.1 and it consists of a model that has about 900 child objects. The project file therefore contains 900 models and is about 50 MB in size. I would like to use Encage to smooth the model plus its 900 child objects all at once. Would Encage work in a project like this? or would it cause EIAS to crash because the plugin can't handle so many models? I was also wondering about EIAS v10. If the next update to the application contained Encage or something similar I guess I could wait and not buy the plugin now. Don't know what to do. My main issue is if Encage works with the model cycling feature. I f anyone has any experience on this please let me know. Thanks very much in advance.

Renderama doesn't get any jobs I send from the main app in Mojave. Is there something we can do to make it work? Thanks in advance.

Actually Jonathan Banta is the creator of the AG shaders. I doubt he can help here. I'm talking about a collection of presets for the shaders that were for sale for like 50 bucks a long, long time ago. I need to create textures for puffy clouds, sand and rocks, and it would be a good place to start since I have hardly used the shaders since I bought them and now find them kind of hard to use.

Right. i see now. Thanks again.

Hi Tom, I had no idea we had that... camera lens presets? where are they, or can you give me an example? Thanks.

Thanks Tom, I'll try that.

Hi, does anyone remember these AG presets package that were for sale at some site a long time ago? Star Shine gallery I believe the name was. Does anyone have contact info or know if they're still available? Anyone who bought them care to share what they were like? Thanks very much in advance.

can't get enough of these old ads... I was wondering... what do they mean by 'actual lens types'? where is that exactly in the program?

does this mean EIAS 9.1 works fine on Yosemite?

Thanks again Tomas. It's clearer now. I'll get back to you if I have any more questions.

yes please, what are the problems using photons you are referring to? This is a major improvement. But I have no idea what settings you changed. Where is the irradiance cache? Adding shadows to the reflections gets rid of the glow/washout effect I was talking about.

the stills look a lot better. Thanks again for your effort. I'll have to look at the file closely to see what you changed around and will post here. Very helpful.

"Brute Force" is an expression the Igors used in another thread to describe how EIAS8 does raytracing. Kind of like "slow but beautiful". I guess they meant. I'll look through the changes you made to the demo file, Tomas, and reply back. I want to use EIAS9 to render my old work files, setups, environments etc, without recreating them all over again, that's all I want. And trying to reproduce EIAS9 images in EIAS8?? that's a problem I don't have. ;) Thanks.