photons help

[vic3d]

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?

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[Tomas Egger]

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

[meester smeeth]

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.

[vic3d]

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?

[Tomas Egger]

Ola Vic,

What are you using? Area Lights? Or Light Objects?

Thanks

Tom

[vic3d]

Thanks Meester, that did the job. Worked great.

[Tomas Egger]

Ola,

Thanks Meester ;)

Tom

[vic3d]

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.

[Tomas Egger]

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

[vic3d]

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.

[Tomas Egger]

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

[vic3d]

By final project you mean all the groups, all the textures? it is a very large folder.

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I uploaded the project, it is called INT CENTRANORTE. Let me know if you can open it. Thanks.

[Tomas Egger]

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

[vic3d]

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

[Tomas Egger]

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

[vic3d]

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.

[Tomas Egger]

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 “washed”, 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

[vic3d]

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