Yeah, that's very good. Congratulations!!!!!

Best regards,
Oleguer




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> 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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> news:415bbd67@news.povray.org...
> > 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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