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any one had any success using the simple skin node?
i cant seem to clear the noise in the material..............any body have any ideas??

richardo

you control the sky intensity with the brightness value. also u may want to adjust the saturation value a little.
depends on ur scene and waht effect ur going for...............

When you tell "Sunsky whith 300% intensity" is this Sun intensity? or how you increase the sky power?

sunsky is the shader from dpoint and i used this for the environment in this scene, ie a textured environment in the effects tab in lightwave.
the sky power is controled through the intensity tab ...

here is a screen shot of the first render...............

kray set-up.jpg

and here are the settings

kray_settings.zip

jure: i have'nt tried to render using local oversampling yet but is it an advantage when u have
area lights in the openings as they cast pritty good contact shadows?
what kind ...

hay

thanks for the replies guy's................
yeah i see now that i have a low res version of that floor texture on my server, must change it out for the high res version........ :oops:

i will post the set-up tomorrow when i get some free time but its very simple............

thanks again ...

Hi krayer's

some interiors from the last few months..............
they rendered in around 3 hours and at an average res of 2500x1400............
hope you like

thanks

richardo

jure: i am going to try these different things today...........thanks for the knowledge :-)

sustin: i have attached the kray settings for the first image. like i said it was just simple qmc medium settings. also i used the campus_probe hdri for the backround which gives a nice tone to the image ...

thanks jure

i have tried really small values like 1% and .001. seems to depend on how strong the light is outside...........skylight etc..............

is there a way to control the darkness of these shadows? sometimes they are there but its difficult to see them. its difficult to balance the light ...

forgive me if this has been metioned before but kray costs ?300 which means you get ur money back on one or two jobs, thats if you are charging your clients properly!! so why do people need a demo?? look at the gallery and see whats been made with kray...........??
i am sure that when the final ...

hi guy's

the first image was rendered with the basic qmc settings.........for speed really.......
modelled and rendered in 1 day each, which is pritty cool!! fprime would have to cook them over night...........
have tried alot of different settings but i still can'nt get those nice soft diffuse ...

you need to be in shaded solid or textured shaded solid mode when rendering!! its mentioned in the zip file when u downloaded the beta version...........something to do with the normals of the polygons or something

richardo

hi haven1000

found out that lightwave was loading the kray plug-in for lw version 7,8 and 9 and not version 9.2+ that i original added!!!

problem sorted now!!

thanks for the help guy's

richard

haven

i have checked the lightwave and kray versions and they are the same.
not sure about the ram though? the os is the same but regarding updates thats something i should look into.

the scene files and gi file are on the local drive on each of the machines, so there is no connection between them ...

haven1000

thanks for the reply. in this case the computers are all the exact same.
maybe it has something to do with the shared GI file? but then i guess
the error would show up on all the machines and not just one?..........its very strange?

richard

jure

yep, no porblem sending you the scenes, i have sent you a pm.......

thanks

richard