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| (...) When I do my renders I try to imagine what the source for the light would be eg. desk lamp, overhead light, window and make my lights accordingly. It might be fun to try to capture that in your class. Even if you just used two lights and (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| (...) This is an interesting statement.. I find a lot of my beginning 3D students do not have a good idea of what their scene is supposed to look like. A lot of their renders have a "sameness" as well, as they have no real idea of composition, (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| In lugnet.cad, Timothy Gould wrote: snip (...) Hi Tim, That statement is just too true!! I myself feel still as a beginner (first rendering maybe 20 month ago). And I got some really helpful tips from Jeroen (digitalbricks.nl), but first I had to go (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| John, that is my goal with asking a lot of questions about rendering and trying stuff myself. I like you have found it hard but I am hoping that once I learn how to create a nice render I can share the methods. Hopefully I can present it in such a (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| Hi John, I'm sorry you've had so much trouble with ray tracing. I've tried to answer some points below. (...) The thing about rendering is that it is a combination of art and science. There are so many parameters to deal with and what looks good in (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| (...) First, I would like to agree that there are quite a few nice renders out on Brickshelf and the various personal sites. Before I begin I do not want this to come across as criticism, but I have a few questions/comments to make about some of the (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| Renderings like LEGO are within our capability. Have you seen the renders by Koyan here: (URL) are a few others that are also creating very nice renders. The secret seems to be figuring out the specific settings used to create very nice renderings (...) (19 years ago, 8-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| Wow, I wonder why mine did not work out as well as yours. Would you be willing to post how you did you render including your pov file, HDR file, and any other includes you use? Did you use radiosity in your render? - John "Tim Gould" (...) (19 years ago, 7-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| (...) Hi John, Managed to get it and did a trial run: (URL) an improvement on those without HDR (look through the gallery to see the other non-HDR versions) but I plan to start using proper HDR sky_spheres soon. Tim (19 years ago, 7-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| Hi Tim, I have the program but I am currently at work. As soon as I get home I will email it to you. I would be really interested to know what results you get using HDRI. Hopefully you will be more successful then I have been so far. Maybe Koyan (...) (19 years ago, 7-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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