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Larking about About Truespace Archives These pages are a copy of the official truespace forums prior to their removal somewhere around 2011. They are retained here for archive purposes only. Larking about // Work in Progress 1  2  |   Order by default Post by Jack Edwards // May 26, 2007, 10:47pm Jack Edwards Total Posts: 4062 :) I know the feeling. I paid to have my Asus laptop repaired and it's just gathering dust now that I've got a C2D desktop.... and this from the guy who said he'd never go back to desktops.... :o I certainly wouldn't want to have to redo some of my recent renders on a Pentium-M........... -Jack. Post by Birdnest // May 27, 2007, 5:56am Birdnest Total Posts: 152 Interesting! I now know 5% of Vray of the 94% :p Is there a manual anywhere online about Vray? I want a brief explanation about EVERY setting in Vray........or is it setup differently in every 3d application? And one other thing lol, I can't find the material editor unless I'm in model mode with the original truespace layout. Are there some new editions with the material editor in Ts7.5? Post by kena // May 27, 2007, 11:46am kena Total Posts: 2321 just right-click on the material icons and it will bring it up Post by weaveribm // May 27, 2007, 2:42pm weaveribm Total Posts: 592 That's a nice tutorial for all Jack thanks! I did notice Jack that you mentioned I ended up using two spot lights And I wonder why the tick in the Environment Lighting Only box has no effect? Or does it? I don't really know how environment lighting works mate sorry if that's a dumb question... I try to get rid of all default fixed lights right away to save er, confusion :) Peter Post by Jack Edwards // May 27, 2007, 3:55pm Jack Edwards Total Posts: 4062 :) Well hadn't really gotten to the tutorial part, but hey if that does the job then ... er um, yeah, that's it, I meant to do that! :p Not sure about the Env Light Only checkbox. According to the manual, it makes VRay disregard scene lights from lighting calculations when using an HDRI image map... so guess I'd uncheck it... :confused: ... I don't use HDRI so not sure I can't really help you with that one. Guess I need to try it and see what the difference is... -Jack. Post by Birdnest // May 27, 2007, 4:17pm Birdnest Total Posts: 152 What do you do for global light in a realistic fashion jack? Post by Jack Edwards // May 27, 2007, 4:36pm Jack Edwards Total Posts: 4062 Well... I just use GI and model the things I need the light to bounce off of.... ;) What I've found makes the largest difference in the realism of the scene is that reflective objects need something to reflect. Also it's not light that makes form, it's shadow. The shadows ("shading") are what make things 3D. So when lighting a scene, it's not about making everything bright, but rather using the play of light and shadow to help the eye understand the shapes. 'Course in many ways I'm still a beginner at a lot of this stuff. I know the theory pretty well, but I'm still learning how to put it into practice effectively. -Jack. Post by kena // Jul 23, 2008, 7:17pm kena Total Posts: 2321 reviving this one for V-ray 5.3 - It still WORKS!!

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