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  Excellent rendering...
 
Hi. If you take a look at (URL) you'll see a great raytrace of a Formula 1 car.... THL (22 years ago, 26-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
(...) That is a rendering? Wow. I think the slightly out of focus effect, combined with the "area lights" makes the rendering look very credible. If it's done with (Mega)POV-Ray, I bet the rendering was pretty CPU intensive... Fredrik (22 years ago, 26-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
It's rendered with the Brazil renderer inside 3ds max.... and.. not by me..... THL (22 years ago, 26-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
(...) To put this into perspective, the Brazil Artist Bundle is $1200, which includes one workstation license and two render node licenses. It is an amazingly good render, though. --Travis Cobbs (tcobbs@REMOVE.halibut.com) (22 years ago, 26-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
(...) My words exactly. It is only the segmented surfaces on the round brick in the foreground that reveals that it is a rendering. - Okay. There is also a revealing lack of ridges between the bricks. (...) Yes. Has POV-Ray implemented rendering (...) (22 years ago, 27-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
(...) If it's not in the latest POV-Ray version, then it is at least in Mega-POV-Ray. I don't remember right now... Fredrik (22 years ago, 27-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
(...) Adding a focal length won't make a POV rendering look that good, though. The reason it looks so good is because the renderer that rendered it appears to be very very good. I imagine the fact that is illuminated with an area light is in large (...) (22 years ago, 27-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
this is incredible. I will not rest until my rederings look this sweet. -tk "Trond Hasse Lie" <lietro@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:H1GKI4.8K7@lugnet.com... (...) (22 years ago, 1-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
"Trond Hasse Lie" wrote... (...) Yes, truly amazing! But now have a look at what POV can do... ("with a little help from my fiends" :-) I started 3 1/2 years ago but never finished building the 2556 in LDraw (URL) I grabbed the Ferrari by Kenneth (...) (22 years ago, 2-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
what does this mean? Then I ran it through L3P: (...) Does this have something do with the lighting? -tk "Lars C. Hassing" <lch@ccieurope.com> wrote in message news:H1u4vC.793@lugnet.com... (...) to quality. (...) (22 years ago, 3-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
(...) renderings is to work more on the surface/colour definition within POV-Ray. The one which are the default from LGEO or L3P are probably not the optimal ones. With all due respect to the authors, of course! I don't mean to belittle their work, (...) (22 years ago, 3-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
Fantastic renderings ! Both ! The Brazil 3D-Studio and the POV-Ray. Now the question is: how can we "normal" users (without Silicon graphic equipment ;-) ) make SO NICE renderings ?! For example I'm using ML-Cad, L3PAO, LGEO parts library and (...) (22 years ago, 3-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
Beatiful.... So.. Is there a new version of L3P coming up with a "realistic" switch? :) THL (22 years ago, 3-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
(...) I don't think I said that. At least it was not my intension. What I meant to say was that the standard colour/surface definitions in L3P / LGEO need some tweaking to get those results. Fredrik (22 years ago, 3-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
i do see what you mean. it seems as if my colors are always a little dark using the lgeo librarys, but the detail makes up for it, and photoshop usually gets it to where i can live with it. -tk "Fredrik Glöckner" <fredrigl@math.uio.no> wrote in (...) (22 years ago, 3-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
no, its been renamed the autokickasstweak button. seriously I want a step by step tutorial on this image. I like how the shadows are so dull, the seems are invisible, subtle reflections, depth of field, could I go on and on... hell yeah. I'd pay for (...) (22 years ago, 3-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
"travis" wrote... (...) No, I just made a POV file with the objects and the camera for the talented POV artists to play with. They have come up with fantastic settings for colors and lights. And yes, I hope to include some of these in the next L3P. (...) (22 years ago, 5-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
(...) Lars, you have made my week with this posting! I wanted to thank you for pursuing this project, getting help from the big guns. These results are sooooo pretty and very encouraging. (...) Indeed. Other renderers may have an edge in creating (...) (22 years ago, 6-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
(...) look at, indeed. Fredrik (22 years ago, 6-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
(...) Cool it really looks like a photo is very nice. (...) (22 years ago, 6-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
(...) All it really needs is some way to adjust things like the reflectivity of the tires-- they're kinda shiny, which shows off the splines, unlike the rendering with Brazil... The only giveaway on the Brazil model I could spot right off was the (...) (22 years ago, 6-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
(...) Hmm. Does L3P/POV-Ray recognize color 256 as "black rubber"? Steve (22 years ago, 6-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
(...) According to the L3P page, it does. However, this might not work with LGEO colors. --Travis Cobbs (tcobbs@REMOVE.halibut.com) (22 years ago, 6-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
(...) ...and how can I get the silver efect on the parts ? I'm using ML-Cad, L3PAO, (LGEO), POV-Ray Thanx. Rene (22 years ago, 7-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
(...) Read the LDraw FAQ! On the page: (URL) can read that for the colour "silver" you should use the LDraw colour number 383. Play well, Jacob -- Sal Colibri (from Roger Leloup's "Yoko Tsuno"): (URL) (22 years ago, 7-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
(...) was what was holding the yellow mini-fig up in the air. :-) I think it qualifies as a quite realistic image. You might want to look into the blur around the black mini-fig. It looks a bit strange on the white background. Play well, Jacob (22 years ago, 7-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
"Coby Bassett" <coby@tubafrog.com> skrev i meddelandet news:H212xr.E9p@lugnet.com... (...) space (...) your reference 'setup provided by JRG') (...) textures, (...) I think both the 'realistic' and the 'idealized' renderings have their place. For (...) (22 years ago, 8-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
(...) like a photo if the polygons weren't visible. I checked and povray has an option for smooth shaded polygons but the exporting program would have to calculate the normal vectors for it to work. (22 years ago, 9-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
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  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
(...) If you haven't already, check the link that Lars C Hassing posted to the POV-Ray users' forum. The "JRG" person posted his custom colour and finish declarations there. It's interesting to note that he achieves the effect by disposing of the (...) (22 years ago, 10-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
Just wanted to add my 2 cents about the wonderful images that have been posted. I use Bryce for to render my images. Here are two links to images that make use of a modified light dome technique that was posted to Renderosity.com to simulate (...) (22 years ago, 10-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
Here's a little followup about my experimentation (along with a new test image-> (URL) ). My festivities have hit a big snag when I tried using transparent pieces. I guess these pieces send the radiosity rays ascattering, creating a tremendous load (...) (22 years ago, 17-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
"Coby Bassett" <coby@tubafrog.com> skrev i meddelandet news:H2LqHH.Hzo@lugnet.com... (...) test (...) pieces. (...) Hmm, I've made some tests too, but not seen anything like what you describe. Veeerrryyy slow to render with radiosity, though, and a (...) (22 years ago, 18-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
Hello, this is my first time posting in this group. I just wanted to say that I have been looking around at some of these images and all of them are just fantastic. So real looking! Really really impressive. I would like to make a point of keeping (...) (22 years ago, 19-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
Just to add that I made my pictures with L3P parts. Started a picture with LGEO parts over an hour ago, and it's still only on line 129 of 480. No traces of any black spots yet, though. I don't want to think about doing this rendering with (...) (22 years ago, 19-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
Here's some renders I've done as a result of this thread: (URL) render times ranged from 1.5 to 3.5 hours on a 1.7 GHz PC. I'm slowly working on an include file for color definitions. (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
Ooohh let's see! (...) I thought I was a big man w/ a 1.0 GHz PC! (...) hhhhmmmm don't know what that means but I look forward to it! (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering... (need new l3p)
 
(...) Gotta love the radiosity pics! So the big question now is how close is the next release of l3p? You know, the one that supports all this on the command line with -ib -ie -il and -ci as mentioned in this thread. (URL) can't wait. Don (22 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering... (need new l3p)
 
(...) Yes, I really appreciate that Lars C Hassing contacted the POV-Ray forum for new ideas to improve the renderings. By the way, has anybody tried to combine the "new style" rendering with the edge detection concept in MEGA-POV? Perhaps that (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
I thought I'd throw my contribution into the frey: (URL) (Warning to modem users, 259K) Took about 45 minutes to render on my machine. One thing though, the colors seem to be "washed out". Is there anyway to fix this? -Orion (22 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.starwars)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
photoshop? autolevels... autocolors? -tk "Orion Pobursky" <bilthefish@IHATESPAMyahoo.com> wrote in message news:H2r5CJ.25A@lugnet.com... (...) (22 years ago, 21-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
"Orion Pobursky" <bilthefish@IHATESPAMyahoo.com> skrev i meddelandet news:H2r5CJ.25A@lugnet.com... (...) - Make sure you don't have any lights on (you've probably already done this) - Play with the 'assumed_gamma' value (higher value, darker (...) (22 years ago, 22-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
Here's another: (URL) picture in my old Idea book that inspired the rendering: (URL) Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 URLs) (22 years ago, 4-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
(...) mirror slightly uneven? Or am I just seeing things? Fredrik (22 years ago, 5-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
"Fredrik Glöckner" <fredrigl@math.uio.no> skrev i meddelandet news:qrdadltp2jr.fsf....uio.no... (...) (URL) (...) You are not 'just seeing things'. I took some time to work with the 'bumps' in the mirror, to make it look more natural - at least most (...) (22 years ago, 5-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
(...) Now, that's nothing! A recent rendering I did took 48 hours on my PC to complete... (...) Yep! Another nice touch! Fredrik (22 years ago, 6-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
"Fredrik Glöckner" <fredrigl@math.uio.no> skrev i meddelandet news:qrdlm5ccs02.fsf....uio.no... (...) I tend to forget what parameters I'm fiddling with, when the turnaround time goes over one hour. Doing 48 hour renderings would also create a (...) (22 years ago, 6-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
(...) Yes, I agree. When fiddling with parameters, I usually render only a small portion of the scene at the time, to see what effects the changes have. Only when I feel fairly confident that the final image is what I want, I try to render all of (...) (22 years ago, 6-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
"Fredrik Glöckner" <fredrigl@math.uio.no> skrev i meddelandet news:qrdbs67sac0.fsf....uio.no... (...) I dug a bit deeper into the POV manuals, and found it! The '+c' rendering option can be used to continue a rendering that has previously been (...) (22 years ago, 6-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
Wow... now that's what I'd like to see in my animations. But the render times are just impossible. A 15 second clip would take a month rendering! I guess I'll stay with the standard methods and stop-motion for a while. On another note, returning to (...) (22 years ago, 6-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
Hi all, I know this is an old thread but I would like to contribute my picture (a big and small one) of the 8880 Super Car in the settings without lights: (URL) took ages to render (well 2 days and some hours actually) I also took the liberty to (...) (22 years ago, 31-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
(...) You see, I guess I should somehow now copy/paste this testfile somewhere into a *.pov file made of one of my *.dat files right? Tried it, got errors. I feel stupid, but after seeing all these 'excellent renderings' I say: ME WANNA ME WANNA! (...) (22 years ago, 1-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
"Jeroen de Haan" <info@digitalbricks.nl> skrev i meddelandet news:H4v32p.FJw@lugnet.com... (...) Nice picture! It is now my desktop background at work. 2 days and some hours! Do you have more than one computer? I would get itchy not having a (...) (22 years ago, 1-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
(...) Well, actually I have (1). But I used the +c switch In POV-Ray so I did most of the rendering at night; my wife doesn't like that the computer is on all day. It's a pretty good option because it goes on where you stopped it. Mind you, you have (...) (22 years ago, 1-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
With some personal help from Jeroen de Haan I finally succeeded in making an almost realistic picture. I now need a faster computer!! If I want to make a picture of 1024x768 with AA03 and q=3 settings toghether with LGEO library parts, a simple (...) (22 years ago, 5-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
Hehehehe, I just saw Jeroen's comment to his render of the 0395-1976 model. Me having great fun with the new radiosity feature!! look: (URL) Happy happy joy joy, Jan F. (22 years ago, 11-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
I tried the advice below and I think I got some great results: (...) (21 years ago, 31-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
Hi Anders - I'm using this code, with amazing results!! I've tweaked the assumed_gamma and reflection values to get a good LEGO look. One thing I'm still puzzled at is how to get the fuzzy shadow underneath objects? I'm not a POV guru... hope (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Excellent rendering...
 
"Tim Courtney" <tim@zacktron.com> skrev i meddelandet news:H9A7tn.21M@lugnet.com... (...) And the answer is... (Please share your settings) (...) guru... All I did was to follow the instructions completely - removed _all_ the lights, and let the (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.ray)

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