Thanks to you, Polinalkrimizei and CTZn!

Hi all. FX Guide ([url]http://www.fxguide.com)[/url] has published during july a pair of extensive articles about the state of the art of render engines in fx production environments. Here are the links: Part I: http://www.fxguide.com/featured/the-state-of-rendering/ Part II: http://www.fxguide.com/...

BTW, Luxology is running a two-days 40% discount offer on new Modo licenses, also a great opportunity to upgrade to 701.

A Modo exporter is highly desirable now.
Modo 701 is a truly outstanding piece of software.

Thanks!

Hi all.
A pic of a dome structure.

Sure! Great pic, Lape .

More alien hardware...

RMAN is the very special beast, notably in shading terms, and its tech is only available as an option at the best for commercial applications. The newly released PRMAN 18 incorporates pathtracing as a new raytrace hider: http://renderman.pixar.com/resources/current/rps/pathTracing.html Seems that t...

Nice trick, Bubs!

OK, it seems that your background isn´t emitting enough light. If you want your background can illuminate the scene and also be seen, it must have light emission properties and its emmisive scale must be adjusted properly. You can have the same texture used for rendering the color (albedo) of the ba...

If you want that some exterior objects can be seen trough windows, then you cannot use Exit Portals. After all Exit Portals are rendering optimizers for some situations, so all you will get if you cant use it is... more rendering time. Updated: I´m not a Sketchup user, so I can´t revise the Sketchup...

Well, Exit Portal are shortcuts to allow light rays hit the environment/background in a straight way, avoiding more geometry intersection tests.
But environment/background *renders* behind Exit Portals. I left you a pic.

Ciao.

Hi, Lape.
No, exit portal objects aren´t visible for camera...

Hey, our ol´n´good friend, the Windows firewall.
Nice you can use Indigo network rendering!

The carbon fibre material is an interesting challenge actually, that can't really be done in Indigo efficiently currently. It really needs a smooth dielectric coating material for the resin, and then a substrate for the carbon fibre with its own shading normal. Currently in Indigo the substrate can...