I don't have a more hires city EXR but I may change the depth of field to blur the background a bit. For other views I'll probably just use the sun/sky. Also, there will be lights in the pool and on the patio so the night shots should be nice.

I've been modeling a pool based loosely on this picture. Here is what I have so far, not a very cooked render. Hmm, I can already tell my bump on the floor got messed up.

So far it seems to be working.

edit: It seems the sub-sections in the Materials page do not work.

Soup wrote:Yes what Fused said sounds good, you can reuse models, as long as its not a complete scene. And it has to fit within the theme, too, of course

Well, it doesn't HAVE to fit with the theme, but for a shot at besting my AMAZING render it probably should.

Borgleader wrote:

dakiru wrote:That's a cool entry, ieatfish

Am I the only one who finds it funny that there are fishes in ieatfish's entry?

I prefer salmon and trout but I could give those angelfish a try.

Well, I guess I'll get this going and you all can see what awesomeness you are up against. :lol: Nickname: ieatfish Version of Indigo used: Indigo 2.4.9 x64 Windows Rendering time / CPUs: 10h 23m, 1367 spp, Core i7 920 @ 4GHz, 8 threads, BiDir MLT List of tools used (and external artwork, with links...

Even a simple flow chart would be nice. Something like: "Does your scene have large light sources?" ---> Yes ---> Use Path Tracing | | No | | Does your scene have glass? Something simple that you could see what would probably work best for your scene. Things like light types, specular materials, SSS...

Was the exporting of Indigo_Sphere not working an issue of the Skindigo plugin or the beta Indigo binary? I can't remember...

CTZn wrote:...

If I understood correctly, you can post as many images as you want in your WIP, but you'll have to pick the exclusive one to submit as your entry to the competition.

42 ?

Okay, that makes more sense.

Alright! I'll definitely try and get something entered in this ... though I can't guarantee (nor would I) any level of skill in my render. But I'll give it my best shot.

It is how it is done in Octane and it is the cause of the memory limitation, because GPU memory is limited to 1.5GB on most powerful affordable cards (I doubt that we will have more memory on these Geforce cards in the future, because Nvidia has also to sell its very expensive Tesla and Quadro with...

Alright, you guys passed. I was OBVIOUSLY just testing you. Pfffft.

Can't believe I missed that, thanks!

Would it be possible to implement a 'Mark Forum(s) Read' button/link here? I would like to clear out all the unread threads so I can better keep track of what I have seen and what I have not seen.

So did we just skip June/July?

It sure is a fast card, you won't be disappointed.