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Re: How would you do it?
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lugnet.cad.ray
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Sun, 5 Jun 2011 03:05:43 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.ray, Timothy Gould wrote:
> To take a stab at it:
> * The light is very high. You'll have to tweak its angle.
> * If you use an area_light you'll probably get the soft shadow edges
> * Reflection is turned off or very low
> * The ground has a fairly high ambience, probably about amb=0.8 dif=0.2
> * There is a sky sphere
> * The camera angle is small
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> Convert in LDview for better colours.
Thanks for the tips... I used LDView to conver, and got a render that's much
closer to the original. However I've got one niggling difference that's bugging
me. The transparent colors seem "lighter" somehow, meaning that the interiors of
things you see through them are lighter than the original colors, rather than
darker, as in the original rendering. I tried playing with the filter, turning
the filter up from the LDView inserted default of .85 helped some, but not
enough. I'm pretty sure I'm using the same transparent colors.
Also LDView had some issues with converting the sticker (the Skyline logo) that
I had no idea how to fix, so I just copied an old logo in from a previous pov
file that L3P converted and that worked.
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| (...) Could be an effect of the 'ambient' value for the transparent colors. If you look at the pov file I sent you, you can see that I have used the following for color47: #declare Color47 = #if (version >= 3.1) material { #end texture { pigment { (...) (13 years ago, 5-Jun-11, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| (...) --snip-- (...) To take a stab at it: * The light is very high. You'll have to tweak its angle. * If you use an area_light you'll probably get the soft shadow edges * Reflection is turned off or very low * The ground has a fairly high ambience, (...) (13 years ago, 3-Jun-11, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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