vic3d Posted April 24, 2011 Report Share Posted April 24, 2011 For some reason I can't get a smooth surface like Ian gets in the tutorial. I also post an image with my settings, am i doing something wrong? img 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomas Egger Posted April 24, 2011 Report Share Posted April 24, 2011 Ola Vic, Did you try to play with my simple step by step Photons thread? http://www.eias3d.com/forums/topic/529-loving-these-photons/ Thanks Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meester smeeth Posted April 24, 2011 Report Share Posted April 24, 2011 Hey Vic, Just throw some more rays into your Gi, 100 is way to low. Check the rays in your area light too. For a final render 400-600 Gi rays usually does the job, the area light can need about 400 too. Remember to use your block distance and shadow optimisation distance to save render time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vic3d Posted April 24, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2011 Thanks, I'll give a a shot. I have tried the block distance but it makes my image darker, it shouldn't do that should it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomas Egger Posted April 24, 2011 Report Share Posted April 24, 2011 Ola Vic, What are you using? Area Lights? Or Light Objects? Thanks Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vic3d Posted April 24, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2011 Thanks Meester, that did the job. Worked great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomas Egger Posted April 24, 2011 Report Share Posted April 24, 2011 Ola, Thanks Meester ;) Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vic3d Posted April 25, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 25, 2011 Ola Vic, What are you using? Area Lights? Or Light Objects? Thanks Tom Using Area light. Trying to use photons to have a really fast render, it is not working out like that so far. I have turned off everything like glass, reflective objects.... I all you can see now is the groups I applied the dicer to. It is only one area light, I figured it should be pretty fast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomas Egger Posted April 25, 2011 Report Share Posted April 25, 2011 Ola Vic, Why are you using dicer? Your Render time? Please, upload this project. Did you take a look in the thread which I posted earlier? Thanks Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vic3d Posted April 25, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 25, 2011 Here is parts of the project, the whole of it is too big. My render time is like 15min on my iMac 3.06GHz. I want to be able to keep it under 5min since the whole video is due very soon. I had to compress the fact and the project, hope you can open it. Thanks, so much for your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomas Egger Posted April 25, 2011 Report Share Posted April 25, 2011 Ola Vic, Please, upload the final project in our FTP - Camera Bug Folder: http://www.eias3d.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=93 Im having problems with your project which you uploaded here. Thanks Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vic3d Posted April 26, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2011 By final project you mean all the groups, all the textures? it is a very large folder. I uploaded the project, it is called INT CENTRANORTE. Let me know if you can open it. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomas Egger Posted April 26, 2011 Report Share Posted April 26, 2011 Ola my friend, Its here: Project: INT CENTRANORTEtom.zip The GI Window primary rays are really small, if you feel the animation is too blotch, increase the GI window Primary rays until you become happy. Right now, its renders in 5 minutes using one Camera. Thanks Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vic3d Posted April 26, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2011 Thanks so much Tomas. I'll work with that and I'll send you a link for the finished video, I hope I am done in less than 2 weeks. Victor Aguilar. aguilarpierri@gmail.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomas Egger Posted April 26, 2011 Report Share Posted April 26, 2011 Ola Victor, Please, test a lot.. A still image is different than a Animation, so, have a big chance to need a lot more Primary rays in GI window. Thanks Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vic3d Posted April 26, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2011 Just a couple of questions Tom: is there a way of telling how much an image took to render after the camera window closed? I wanted to make the image much brighter, something like the image below: http://www.eias3d.com/category/gallery/architecture/page/7/ 89 - Waterfront-castro - Created by Watson/Associates but if I remove the block distance the render takes much much longer, it looks great but it takes too long even after I save the photons to a file. Any suggestions on how to get more light in there without making it take for ever? Thanks. Victor Aguilar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomas Egger Posted April 26, 2011 Report Share Posted April 26, 2011 Ola Victor, In the Render Window / Render Tab / change the output gamma from 1.0 to 2.0 or maybe 1.8, the overall image will become “washedâ€, then in After Effects, you can use Curves to contrast the blacks (shadows) only. :) Gamma 1.8 If you are rendering directly from your local Camera (not Rama), you can select the render in your folder and use the finder “get info†command (mac) which you will see the render time. Thanks Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vic3d Posted June 3, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2011 Hi Tom, so here is what the project looks like almost finished, I just have to render some more seconds of the same stuff to have a longer video and I have to work on the editing. I'd appreciate any suggestions or comments on any aspect of the project. If you have any suggestions for the music I'd be very grateful, I don't usually listen to instrumental music that can bu used for background in a video so I am a little lost there. Thanks. http://vimeo.com/24428971 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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