Can't get light bulb to work

[benn]

I think this lightbulb model will be going in the techniques manual. Would you be happy with that Borgleader?

[Godzilla]

By the way - to anyone using the scene that I uploaded, there are also 2 emitters behind the camera and the upper left.

[WytRaven]

And without the glass:

Nice jacob's ladder!

[Polinalkrimizei]

Hey Borgleader, just for the record: I cooked your original scene file overnight, and the bulb shows first signs of clearing up. So it is really just the thick glass, material-wise everything is fine.

[benn]

Whats a jacobs ladder?

[Doug Armand]

Here are my renders:

Was this done with Godzilla's material?

[Borgleader]

@benn: I'm fine with it

@Polinalkrimizei: ok well I'll let it cook longer then ^.^

[WytRaven]

Whats a jacobs ladder?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXGHEkcvP6k

http://www.uoguelph.ca/~antoon/circ/hv/ ... acobs.html

[suvakas]

I did a bulb scene too. Just to see if it works.
Rendered 2 days with bidir off and reached about 200k spp.

[Doug Armand]

I did a bulb scene too. Just to see if it works.
Rendered 2 days with bidir off and reached about 200k spp.

I really like that nice work.

But is it just me or do none of these renders look like real clear lit lightbulbs? The filaments just doesn't seem to 'glow' like a real one. Or at least like real ones do in photographs.

And using aperture diffraction just produces wierd results with these.

[Polinalkrimizei]

Yes we do need nice bloom and glare again in indigo!

[dmn]

How about this? This was about an hour's render. I was working on this before my computer ed out. The default settings for aperture diffraction.
I found rheinard gave the quickest result, although this is Camera Tonemapping with agfacolor 200CD (I think) and I set the ISO at ~600.

[Doug Armand]

How about this?

Thats not bad - but still doesn't have the blooming of a real photo

[dmn]

yeah but those are just default settings. can't I make it even more bloomy?

Borgleader one thing I notice about your scene is that the backdrop's color is almost black. I think this may be a major reason for the glass rendering dark?

[Doug Armand]

yeah but those are just default settings. can't I make it even more bloomy?

Borgleader one thing I notice about your scene is that the backdrop's color is almost black. I think this may be a major reason for the glass rendering dark?

Thats what I first thought. But a filament should easily light up all but a completely dark space - ie cat in a coal cellar.

But I agree the bgd did seem to be a big factor. I think it was decided that the glass of the bulb was too thick?