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Subject:	Re: Need help with errors and how to make renders look like this?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.cad.ray
Date:	Mon, 26 Dec 2005 07:59:27 GMT
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Hi John, Orion's already explained most of how I work as well: L3P the .mpd with LGEO and mesh-enhance it. (I never just run the whole file through the enhancer, just certain parts here and there.) Add in radiosity and the lugnet colors. (I'm using my own radiosity settings and wrote an include file that manages all the colors found on http://guide.lugnet.com/color/.) Then add in an HDR image. This gives much better lighting and reflection than a plain white skysphere. Then render. And wait, and wait, and wait... (I think the result looks better than plain fastrad, but it sure takes a LOT longer to render.) I've been working on and off on a tutorial on how to render LDraw files with radiosity and HDRI for a whole while now, but real life keeps in intruding... I promise I'll try to finish it and get it (and all my include files) online before the end of the year! BTW, I've done a quick test render of the Enzo. You can find it at http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Koyan/Temp/Misc/8652.png Cheers, Koyan

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		Re: Need help with errors and how to make renders look like this?
Thank you for the information Koyan! "Koyan" <koyan@gmx.net> wrote in message news:Xns97385B86B364....63.236... (...) I never thought of doing that with the mesh enhancer. That is a good idea. If you can group certain parts together as a sub model (...) (18 years ago, 26-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)

		Re: Need help with errors and how to make renders look like this?
(...) Whoa, a tutorial would be fantastic, Koyan! That would be enough to get me to build my MOCs virtually! I'd pay $$$ for that kind of a service. Maybe consider producing a book or a CD?? JOHN (18 years ago, 26-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)

		Re: Need help with errors and how to make renders look like this?
(...) Hi Koyan, I have made an attempt to try HDRI lighting and I am not sure if I am doing things correctly or not. Could you look over what I am doing and let me know if I am doing anything wrong? Here is what I have done so far: (1) Installed (...) (18 years ago, 2-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad.ray)

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		Need help with errors and how to make renders look like this?
I need some help making better LEGO renderings and getting around some errors that I am encountering. Here is an example of my render on the left and someone else's cool render on the right: (URL) you can see I have a lot to improve in my renders. (...) (18 years ago, 24-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)

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