I think the same about the wooden tecxture. It will be better to say
"mackintosh in the barn"
The rest is very great as usually with your posts Marc.




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> Hi folks,
> I wanted to improve my McIntosh image, mostly the table material and the
> tubes filaments light emission.
> I had to fiddle with radiosity settings. filaments are just high ambient
> textured stacked tori, (20  ,2 per valve, arealights should take forever
to
> trace and point lights should be unrealistic)
> I used save & load radiosity data (as found on Jaime's page
> http://www.ignorancia.org/t_tips.php ) with higher ambient for the
filaments
> during the pretrace
> I am still not quite satisfied: lighting by filaments is uneven.
>
> Modeled with Moray with some  Luis' DirectCode plugin additions and
directly
> exported and rendered in Megapov 1.1
>
> A larger version can be found here:
> http://marc.jacquier.free.fr/Pics/Stock/Autres/mcintoshhdri4.png
>
> Comments & advices are welcome as usual :-)
>
>
> Marc
>
>
> here are my radiosity settings
>
> #declare use_rad=2;
> global_settings{
>
>  #if (use_rad)
>  radiosity{
>   // save settings: modified Outdoor settings from rad_def.inc
>   #if (use_rad=1)
>
>     brightness      1
>     count           1300
>     error_bound    1
>     gray_threshold   0.0
>     low_error_factor 0.6
>     minimum_reuse    .015
>     nearest_count  5
>     recursion_limit  1
>
>       adc_bailout      0.05
>       max_sample       -1.0
>       media            off
>       normal           on
>       always_sample    1
>
>       pretrace_start   0.08
>       pretrace_end     0.02
>
>
>     save_file "rad-save-load.rad"
>   #else
>     // load settings
>     pretrace_start 1 pretrace_end 1
>     load_file "rad-save-load.rad"
>     error_bound 1  // it's important to specify the same value used to
save
> data
>     recursion_limit 1  // also the same if specified
>     always_sample off  // no more samples: specially useful with focal
blur
>   #end
>  }
>  #end
> }
>
>
>
>

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