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  • RezcaRezca Posts: 3,393
    edited August 2012

    @Misty: Yeah most external render engines have their own unique materials and often do not accept or do not fully support an application's native materials.
    .
    Indigo can read and render Cinema materials but bump maps and normal maps will be ignored. SSS isn't rendered unless it's an Indigo material.
    Vray cannot render 3D Shaders or standard materials AT ALL.
    Maxwell I do not think can render Cinema materials, and has THE MOST confusing material editor ever - of all time. (Though I hear Modo's is pretty horrid too.)
    Mental Ray can render most Cinema materials, and has its own (confusing) material system.
    .
    *EDIT* Also, Maxwell and Indigo materials are not shown in the viewport - they're completely white. So I have to use a standard material as a "placeholder" to see if tiling and so forth will work right and then replace it with the renderer's material afterwards.
    .
    Yayzums Avatars are back :D :D :D

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    they say luxrender can do path tracing. and it's free. doh, i forgot to ask if it can render poser frame sequence.

    im gonna have to give up on the vray dream til after a get new car.

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    There is a crepuscular moon pale and waning and playing hide go seek amongst the scudding grey clouds in the northwest sky outside my window :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Woolyloach said:
    urgh - soon I will have to delve into the Deep Mystery(tm) that is the Poser Material Room!


    I need to figure out how to make Poser materials, things like volumetric gas and such to create ghosts and radoactive slugs - things I use pwEffect for in DS4.5. Either that or use PPro for other things and use DS4.5 and Carrara for FX-heavy shots.


    Too much to learn! ! :gulp:


    Found a nice diabetic cookbook for the Kindle on Amazon, reading it now in the Cloud Reader - maybe I'll do some grocery shopping on the way home! Dang, it's making me hungry! And do you know you can get sugar-free Oreo-type cookies that are also low carb? And sugar-free gummi bears? Cool! :coolsmile:

    Carrara has (more or less) one-click volumetric lighting built in - yay gummy bears !

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Skiriki said:
    YAY! Floofy kittens to everyone!

    yay avatars ! And yay thread bumping !

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Misty Whisky said:
    Miki 3 render finished in the wee dawn hours :)

    nice :)

  • WoolyloachWoolyloach Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    ps1borg said:
    Skiriki said:
    YAY! Floofy kittens to everyone!

    yay avatars ! And yay thread bumping !


    OMG Avatars! Time for me to sit down and render one for myself! :coolsmile:

  • WoolyloachWoolyloach Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    ps1borg said:
    Woolyloach said:
    urgh - soon I will have to delve into the Deep Mystery(tm) that is the Poser Material Room!


    I need to figure out how to make Poser materials, things like volumetric gas and such to create ghosts and radoactive slugs - things I use pwEffect for in DS4.5. Either that or use PPro for other things and use DS4.5 and Carrara for FX-heavy shots.


    Too much to learn! ! :gulp:


    Found a nice diabetic cookbook for the Kindle on Amazon, reading it now in the Cloud Reader - maybe I'll do some grocery shopping on the way home! Dang, it's making me hungry! And do you know you can get sugar-free Oreo-type cookies that are also low carb? And sugar-free gummi bears? Cool! :coolsmile:

    Carrara has (more or less) one-click volumetric lighting built in - yay gummy bears !


    Ooops I wasn't clear! I mean a 3D material that's translucent, such that you get a "ghost" or "phantom" effect. It's perfect for nasty radioactive slugs and other unfortunate critters... :vampire: I'm sure I could make a Carrara shader to do it, but I find posing and scene setup in DS4.5 to be significantly faster. At least right now...

  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Do you have the Updated pwShaders Wooly? They have pwGhost in the set.

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    A specular only surface might give you what you want :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Seeing everyone's avatars appearing is like watching the lights coming on at nightfall :)

  • SkirikiSkiriki Posts: 4,975
    edited December 1969

    Oh god this kitten cuddle puddle is way too cute for my brain it is about to explode boom there we go

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    I hear the sound of distant thunder :)

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited August 2012

    redid the Miki3 render with ibl-ao. i like ibl-ao.


    ouchee, my toes are puffed up, prolly from all the sodium i ate yesterday. it hurts under my toenails. ouchhhh


    woww, i want to render covers like this :lol: http://illustratedromance.com/covers/
    in sff versions of course

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  • WoolyloachWoolyloach Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Jaderail said:
    Do you have the Updated pwShaders Wooly? They have pwGhost in the set.


    Yep - been using pwGhost and pwEffect to good purpose (well, to NEFARIOUS purpose) on the giant slug!!!


    I'll post a new render when I'm happier!

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,259
    edited December 1969

    Kitties are safe place. At a week hotel.

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,259
    edited December 1969

    I mean I am at week hotel. Kitties are in a house on the other side of town.

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Good to hear that you and kitteh's are all safe, I'll be having a good thought for you :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Misty Whisky said:
    redid the Miki3 render with ibl-ao. i like ibl-ao.


    ouchee, my toes are puffed up, prolly from all the sodium i ate yesterday. it hurts under my toenails. ouchhhh


    woww, i want to render covers like this :lol: http://illustratedromance.com/covers/
    in sff versions of course

    Nice pic Misty :) Go see a doctor today?

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Lovely sunny day here, a little chilly in the shade :)

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    thanks :)


    nah - the ouchie isn't intolerable. self-diagnosing again. gatorade for electrolytes and way low on the sodium for a while.


    Lexx is speeding to the fractal core again. something about the gigga-shadow's positive mass canceling what-nots- it sounds plausible in the abstract.
    we had to cross to the light universe to find proto blood for Kai.
    poor squish. it was cute for a cluster lizard.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    what a difference the avatars make. no more faceless names.

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Yes is good to be wearing green and gold (and red white and blue) again :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    I'm a useless shopper, just wasted a half hour trying to make enough of a list to use the Rendo coupon - what a waste of time *gives up* Nice day for a swim here :)

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,040
    edited December 1969

    Skiriki said:
    YAY! Floofy kittens to everyone!

    ...great, now I'll never get any sleep again.


    ...computer/online games, I can take or leave.


    ...streaming videos of cute kittens, now that is my downfall.

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Can't resist teh kitteh kuteness either ;)

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    stretch yawn
    back at the day job
    4 days to next 3 day weekend. :)

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    Miss Bad Wolf said:
    I mean I am at week hotel. Kitties are in a house on the other side of town.


    did you leave them with someone who said they would take care of them?
    or did you just leave them at a house?

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited December 1969

    She said in another thread that someone had come and collected them.

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    vulture drop

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