I think the wood looks fine. But it does look like you have some "normals" problem on the base of the glass, you have two dark spots on each side. This is because the normals are weird. do a search in the forum about "normals black" and you can find some info about why and what to do about it. Basic...

Hm this looks more like a pencil drawing now.

Nice!

Stur: I don't think so, because the curtains are not letting that much light thru. THe main light is coming at an angle also.

-niko

Thanks for the info guys, the blendigo script is awesome!

here's a pic I made experimenting with SSS. It's that pink egg carton type foam that you sometimes see in packing. I know, it needs to be brighter..

Also, ignore the smoothing issues (the black spots)


-niko

Hi, I'm using the 0.7t5 exporter for blender, and also just hand-editing the file myself. I'm trying to get an example of SSS materials to work, but I keep having issues. When I try the "flesh" example XML code, the XML has errors, and plus, instead of appearing pink, it appears green :) (from Radia...

Thanks for the crits, I'll keep working on it.

I was too scared to try 0.7 , but maybe I'll work up bravery.

-niko

Wow. Indigo is awesome. I've been using blender for almost 8 years now, and it's tough to get a realitic rendering out of it, even with Yafray (which is very fussy) Im working on my current WIP, it's a foundry image. This is the best it has ever looked thanks to Indigo. I plan to do some post pro to...