Depth of field is a great way to hide all the normal smoothing issues/overlapping faces that I haven't fixed yet! :mrgreen: I'll have to turn down the saturation of some of the colors (even though I used the RGB values from the semi-official chart). http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/9209/gabelstapler...

ieatfish wrote:Two don't look like I want them to and one doesn't work for my model in blendigo (the shader one, weird geometry artifacts).

There should be no distortion if your object's UV maps are set up correctly. Could you post a render/screenshot?

Bidir MLT, 9600spp after 4.5 hours The screen and the floor are diffuse, the monitor (which is floating) is a phong and the sphere is made of glass with a low cauchy value. Aperture diffraction is turned on, but I blended it 50:50 with the version where AD is turned off. And yes, that is my actual w...

Model from the Scherk-Collins Sculpture Generator
Homemade HDR environment
Bidir MLT ~3600spp

Here is the update as promised.
I changed the floor texture and the overall lighting.

It's ... a tile texture?
It doesn't look like noise at all.

Thanks for the tips everyone!
I'll post an update tomorrow.

This is an interior scene I am currently working on.
There still is some noise visible in certain areas because I only let it render for about two or three hours.

Criticism is welcome!

Some things I noticed:
-The ground plane is cut off in the upper left corner
-The tile texture is too low-res/big and some bump mapping would help a lot
-There are black spots visible in the bottles... (don't know if it is just the refraction of the tiles or this issue)

I didn't model the parts myself, I used the LDraw part library and LeoCAD to convert them to a usable format.
Built using official colors and instructions (it's a Star Wars destroyer droid... at least the core of one).

Indigo 2.0.9, 5000 spp
Homemade HDRi environment

Well that's really awesome! Thank you very much!

Congrats to zeitmeister & suvakas and thanks for the great competition!

Nickname: Schosch

Version of Indigo used: v1.1.18

Rendering time / CPU's: 28 h 6min, AMD X2 3800+ @ 2.2 Ghz

List of tools used:
Blender v2.48a
Adobe Photoshop CS 4

Both the wood textures and the hdr backgound are homemade.

1 Blender unit equals 1 meter. So 10 cm = 0.1 Blender units. Your scene scale should be set to about 4.0 x 10^0. fbm(dot(getTexCoords(0)*1000.0, vec2(0.0, clamp(noise(getTexCoords(0)), 1.0, 5.0))), 4)*0.0003 1000 and 4 control the number of scratches, 1.0 and 5.0 control the minimal and maximal leng...

The IOR of aluminium is 1.59, not 100!
Use the al.nk data (which is included in every package of indigo) and an exponent of 1,000,000.

BTW you can find a huge list of IORs at http://refractiveindex.info/

I think that this problem occurs because you use an older Blendigo and Indigo version than I do.
The ketchup material was created and tested with Blendigo v1.1.14 and Indigo v1.1.15.