Shouldn't bdir false or true or hybrid or whatever always conclude to the same image? As I understand it they should be just different roads leading to the same destination. Some are longer, some are shorter...
Or am I wrong?

I know people have told you earlier, but your studio is just beautiful.

please let it cook much longer!!! I know sss is a time eater though...
juice has great potential. perhaps lower the bump of the floor a little?

Yeah what about it???
I know it is fixed in the commercial versions, but since a lot of great artists still depend on v1.1.18, it would be a really nice gesture to fix the issue

I just got one this morning!

Yeah!!
Above this you are witnessing reply no. 1000!

@dmn: Wow, thanks, that is a great reference. Definitely gonna use it in my renders, I just never really experimented with that. Just accepted that there are many settings. Gonna have to do a lot of testrenders now... :wink: @cpfresh: Thanks! @matsta: haha, I don't remember another book render here ...

Nothing too fancy here, just a 7-cm-diameter diamond...
Mat is from WytRaven (please correct me if I'm wrong!!!) and can be found in the matdb.

Having trouble with tonemapping atm, original render is just too blue and pale... any suggestions? Good settings?

No, widescreen imagery rules!

Just make it 2048px wide and it's gonna fit my new screen !

nice renders btw...

Now THAT'S what I call innovative car-design!
Great work!!

HA! In blender you just left-click on the axis and drag! Impossible to make it more easy!

This looks really plastic. Like I could just grab into my screen and touch it! very well done, I especially like the ear for some reason

Nope, didn't work

Yes me too!

And I definitely like godzilla's "latest renders"-idea. We do need some eyecatchers! We had a similar thing at the very old website, but then it got lost...

This happened as an accident while creating a nice sheet with lots of wrinkels.
Doesn't make sense as a picture, but looks interesting, so I thought I'd share. it.