Thanks Z. Not completely happy with the custard yet, though. I'm thinking perhaps slightly lower bump and higher exponent... Wow looking damn tasty. Agree with less bump on custard. Lime wedge looks great - tectured from real photos? now to make it look like one of those high-end food shots give it...

OnoSendai wrote:Have you posted the full res image anywhere Doug?

Nope - first and last posting of this image will be here. The final Hi-Res version will, hopefully, be bought for usage at some time by future clients.

Great renderer btw Ono - as a photographer I am really loving the results it gives.

5OnIt wrote:The light bulb looks great, but you're also using some type of HDRI for an environment map... correct? What image are you using?

Yes your right - its SM_HDRI-Pack1-14.

Doug

Doug Armand Why the move to Blender from Max - just interested, as it is an unusual move, though nothing is wrong with Blender at all. I used Blender untill a pretty recent move to Maya. Honestly? I'm finding the modelling to be better/easier than 3DS Max. Probably just me but I really find the Ble...

Borgleader wrote:I think this looks pretty cool GJ

Thanks

Hopefully post some more stuff soon - as soon as I get my head around blender that is

Doug Armand Awesome stuff! The light bulbs are the definition of simplicity, but I really love your ground plane idea here with the mesh. Is it modeled or alpha mapped? The floor was simplicity itself - all done by texture maps on a plane with 1 face. Not really that noticeable in the small jpg abo...

My first image done with Indigo that I feel happy with and ready for commercial use. I Have to say I love the photo-realism that Indigo gives. I Also love the fact that I can have it rendering in the background and it hardly slows my system down - not the same when using 3DS Max and Mental Ray - my ...

Looking pretty good. Only suggestion is the shiny metal parts (lid,hinge and ring) are too clean compared to rest of compass. I would also go for a more dramatic camera angle - maybe more three-quarter on and maybe a wider view? mean moving camera closer but should add drama - also increase the OOF ...

Thx for the link Borgleader - I agree I think its best done via Blender's renderer.
I Was just curious if it could be done. If it could be I doubt If I could afford the render time

Is this possible in Indigo? Using either Blender or Max?

Just idle wondering

Hi,

Just a thought but do you have aperture diffraction on?. I've found that switching this off can help when rendering starts to eat up RAM

Doug

BTW Suvakas, The Exporter is excellent. Would be a shame if you stop developement. Maybe make it shareware?. I would certainly pay a fee. At least until I'm up to speed on blender that is :-) But seriuosly I would pay a sharware fee for it and hopefully so would others and that would provide you wit...

More for others info than anything else. It appears that using 1.09.6 of Maxigo and the latest stable release of Indigo 1.1.1 smoothing doesn't seem to work. Being stupid it took me a while to workout what the problem might be that. Seems that going back to Indigo 1.0.9 solves the problem. Just a he...

Right. i will try that one, but Blender is giving the error. Apparently blendigo is searching for the wrapper file in the wrong place. I will run blender and indigo as admin. Do i need to run python as admin too? If that is even possible.. try running Blender as admin as well. I run all this stuff ...

You have to run Indigo as an administrator.

Right click Indigo.exe and select Properties .Select the Compatability tab and check the 'Run this program as an adminstrator' option.