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Author Topic: Sometimes you just have to render to see - Help for the noobs  (Read 10188 times)

onespirit5777

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Sometimes you just have to render to see - Help for the noobs
« on: February 28, 2009, 05:36:29 pm »

Sometimes you just have to render to see if it looks good. I'm not to happy with these, but I have a better idea of what to do next time. Did I waste 5 hours for the glass render? No! Because I learned something.
« Last Edit: March 01, 2009, 09:11:47 am by onespirit5777 »
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Re: Sometimes you just have to render to see
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2009, 05:37:48 pm »

And another one! It's not to bad makes me think of a dreamy snowflake.
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onespirit5777

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Re: Sometimes you just have to render to see
« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2009, 05:39:57 pm »

Metal Snowflakes! Ouch! Don't be outside for this one! LOL!

I didn't set the metalic right. Looks more like shinney plastic.
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Re: Sometimes you just have to render to see
« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2009, 05:55:05 pm »

Did you use the lathe tool to make the first snowflake and forget to flip normals. If so then I know how you feel.
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Re: Sometimes you just have to render to see
« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2009, 07:31:30 am »

Nice renders you got there onespirit, really organic looking.
And 5 hours is nothing compared to the days i once had to wait ;)

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Re: Sometimes you just have to render to see
« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2009, 09:07:10 am »

Yes I used a lathe tool but had no problems with faces. The problem is that I have the images over lapping and the IOR causes it to black. No fault of the program just the artist. LOL! Mirror group Copy paste rotate Z

This is more of a post for new-bee's - Sometimes you just have to go through the motions to see what you have and learn from it. I knew it was going to do that, but I wanted to see what the rest would look like.

Now here is something I took my time with and this was a 5 min render. No glass renders because of shadows. If this program had caustics and fluid - WOW!

Steve, I want to render this 8,000 by 8,000 - Help! I want to print this on canvas.
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Re: Sometimes you just have to render to see - Help for the noobs
« Reply #6 on: March 02, 2009, 05:06:48 am »

beautiful images as always, onespirit; i especially like the last one :)

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Re: Sometimes you just have to render to see - Help for the noobs
« Reply #7 on: March 02, 2009, 11:37:12 am »

Nice images! i like the first one the most.

Its very annoying when you are rendering something and then after hours of waiting, it crashes :(
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Re: Sometimes you just have to render to see - Help for the noobs
« Reply #8 on: April 07, 2009, 07:50:40 am »

ooo, pretty patterns. very nicely done. i like the last one most
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