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Post by Steinie // Jul 28, 2008, 8:00am

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Right click a light and you get this message. Why even allow it?

Post by kena // Jul 28, 2008, 8:50am

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they have done that for a long time now. I don't know why, but I noticed it most often with version 7. because you do not have to right-click directly on the object you want to edit, sometimes you have the wrong thing selected.

Post by spacekdet // Jul 28, 2008, 1:21pm

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Just a little something I'll throw out there.
Right click a light and have the (complete) parameters show up in the stack. Left click too, while we're at it.
Crazy idea, I know.

Post by Nez // Jul 29, 2008, 3:43am

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What, like the properties panel for the light would open in version 5 (and presumably 6)? :o

Why do I get the feeling that trying out 7.6 (when I finally get the download) is going to be hard work...

Post by spacekdet // Jul 29, 2008, 5:57am

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I jumped the gun a little there... some of the light types do indeed have properties/parameters easily available in the stack, but local/omni, infinite, and skylights all require digging around in the LE.
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you're putting me on!

My problem was that I was starting with something simple- locals and infinites- and 'blew my stack' when I couldn't figure out how to enable shadows on what seemed to me to be basic light types.

I'm waaay below minimum specs for running 7.6, but hey, I don't let it stop me!
Nez, Download it anyway; If nothing else, you'll have 6.6/Model side, with the bridge off it might just do ok on your elderly machine.

Post by Nez // Jul 29, 2008, 6:02am

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Cheers Space - I will try the download for sure but not optimistic with my machine. Interested to know what spec you're running if you're getting it to work....

But first I've got to get round my mum's :o She's got broadband and I don't even have dial-up at present and work will definetly frown on big downloads from the office :rolleyes: Out of interest, do you know roughly how bog the download is? (not counting all those courses which I've also got to get....)


I'm assuming that the model/6.6 side should function fairly predictably for a TS5 convert like me, in terms of all these things like lights settings, material editor etc.... I hope so anyway....

Post by Steinie // Jul 29, 2008, 6:25am

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Here are the file sizes so you can plan your future:

TS7.6 program and libraries 130mb
PDF manual 51mb
videos (for manual) 132mb
VRay1.53 21.8mb (if you buy it)

Post by Ambrose // Jul 29, 2008, 12:12pm

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And all in all with the courses it's a total of:


4.2 Gb or 103 files :D


burn Baby burn :banana::banana::banana:



SeYa/Ambrose...

Post by Burnart // Jul 29, 2008, 12:43pm

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Just a little something I'll throw out there.

Right click a light and have the (complete) parameters show up in the stack. Left click too, while we're at it.

Crazy idea, I know.


Absolutely! I for one am so sick of burrowing into the LE to do tasks that should be immediate - particularly light adjustment. It really irritates me - I can't think of another program that takes so many clicks to bring up full light attributes. (And, yes some lights do have some properties available but they never seem to be the ones I'm trying to access!)

Post by Steinie // Jul 29, 2008, 12:56pm

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You guys definitely need to check these out.

http://forums1.caligari.com/truespace/showthread.php?t=4929&highlight=1.21

Notice the shadow button? Check.
How about light intensity controls? Check.
All within reach.

Thank Prodigy

Post by Burnart // Jul 29, 2008, 2:28pm

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You guys definitely need to check these out.


http://forums1.caligari.com/truespace/showthread.php?t=4929&highlight=1.21


Notice the shadow button? Check.

How about light intensity controls? Check.

All within reach.


Thank Prodigy


Nicely remembered and pointed out. Good on you prodigy. :banana:


I vaguely remember seeing it at the time and forming the impression (for some reason) that it was for VRay users.


Still, it was always an odd choice at the outset to have the light attributes so firmly tucked away rather than easily accessible.

Post by Nez // Jul 29, 2008, 10:07pm

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And all in all with the courses it's a total of:


4.2 Gb or 103 files :D


burn Baby burn :banana::banana::banana:



SeYa/Ambrose...


Holy cow, my mum's broadband's going to take a beating... Thanks for this info (and Steinie too for the individual components you listed out) - better get me a few blank cds...

Post by brotherx // Jul 30, 2008, 11:10pm

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I extracted all the courses and it's just too big to fit onto a DVD - so annoying. I suppose I could ignore certain courses like the spirit course...

Post by Ambrose // Jul 31, 2008, 8:25am

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Nez this is the great thing with this software:


http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/



Bigbrother why do you extract to dvd, it all fit if you don't?


All computers should have arj and zip, hard disk you've or... :confused:




SeYa/Ambrose...

Post by Burnart // Jul 31, 2008, 12:43pm

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You guys definitely need to check these out.


http://forums1.caligari.com/truespace/showthread.php?t=4929&highlight=1.21


Notice the shadow button? Check.

How about light intensity controls? Check.

All within reach.


Thank Prodigy


I followed Steinie's link downloaded the lighting objects and messed about with them. I had some questions/problems which I asked on that thread and got no response so I thought I would re ask them here. (Will I get a response this time?)


Sorry if these are dumb questions but how do you get shadows displaying using these tools? I know there is a tick box but it has no effect as far as I can tell. I'm trying to see shadow in the realtime display - is this for VRay only? Messing around with this last night I simply could not get any shadows at all regardless of settings and light type.


I'm using CustomLight 1.21 and CustomProjector 1.3.


Just a thought, is there a problem with running this in 7.6 rather than 7.5?

Post by spacekdet // Jul 31, 2008, 4:16pm

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Check the File/HW settings, are you running full-blast there?




(This post contains 100% just a stab-in-the-dark-content)

Post by Burnart // Jul 31, 2008, 4:32pm

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Thanks for answering spacekadet. Not in a position to check at the moment (at work) but I'm pretty sure I have the best settings available to my machine. I can get shadows showing with the appropriate standard lights but not with these plugins. What hardware setting in particular should I be looking at?

Post by Steinie // Jul 31, 2008, 4:46pm

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I'm looking at both controllers now and it seems that the enable shadow only works with VRay and not Real Time.

I had waited because I thought Prodigy might have some input. (Their his controllers).

Post by Burnart // Jul 31, 2008, 4:49pm

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I'm looking at both controllers now and it seems that the enable shadow only works with VRay and not Real Time.
I had waited because I thought Prodigy might have some input. (Their his controllers).

I had a feeling that was the case but damned if I could see a definitive statement saying so. Thanks for the info.

Post by Steinie // Jul 31, 2008, 5:07pm

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Maybe we can get him to fix them or have one of the other software gurus give this a shot. Let me see what I can do.
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