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From: MikeH
Subject: Almost
Date: 26 Aug 2000 15:55:48
Message: <39A820A8.D7C1CACA@aol.com>
The recent discussion about Arnold in the renderman newsgroup got me
interested in trying the specific hemispherical light effect in POV.
Apparently Arnold uses a kind of spherical area light to achieve the
effect, which should be possible to add to POV I would think.  Anyway, I
tried doing it with just a sky_sphere - It only took 10 minutes to
render but the shadows still look stinky.  this scene has no lights,
radiosity settings as follows:

global_settings {
ini_option "+QR"

//radiosity{recursion_limit 5 brightness 1.2 normal on}

radiosity {
   pretrace_start 0.16
   pretrace_end 0.02 //0.08
    count 600
    nearest_count 4
    error_bound .3
    recursion_limit 1

    low_error_factor 1
    gray_threshold 0.5
    minimum_reuse 0.015
    brightness 1.5
    normal on
    max_sample 1

    adc_bailout 0.01/1  // CHANGE - use adc_bailout = 0.01 /
brightest_ambient_object
  }

}


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From: Tony[B]
Subject: Re: Almost
Date: 26 Aug 2000 18:59:15
Message: <39a84bc3@news.povray.org>
That is pretty close. Keep it up. :)


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From: Xplo Eristotle
Subject: Re: Almost
Date: 26 Aug 2000 20:27:23
Message: <39A86107.9B426CB6@unforgettable.com>
MikeH wrote:
> 
> The recent discussion about Arnold in the renderman newsgroup got me
> interested in trying the specific hemispherical light effect in POV.
> Apparently Arnold uses a kind of spherical area light to achieve the
> effect, which should be possible to add to POV I would think.  Anyway, I
> tried doing it with just a sky_sphere - It only took 10 minutes to
> render but the shadows still look stinky.  this scene has no lights,
> radiosity settings as follows:

<chop>

Lower your pretrace_end to at least .01; this won't completely smooth
the shadows, but it helps. You can go even lower if you want, but values
smaller than .01 don't seem to have a significant effect on either
quality or render time as far as I can tell.

Aside from that, looks good!

-Xplo


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From: Bob Hughes
Subject: Re: Almost
Date: 26 Aug 2000 20:33:49
Message: <39a861ed@news.povray.org>
Spherical lights?  A kind that wraps around things on all sides?  That would
be a great addition, I'm thinking of light sources pointing only inward from
a shell at any given distance.  Sounds like a neat idea anyhow.
I knew that rabbit looked familiar and now that it seems to be made of
concrete I know why.  I have one outside that my mother gave me to go along
with my rock-garden of a yard.  All it would need is to hunch down instead
of looking like he's playing airplane doing a takeoff  :-)

Bob


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From: MikeH
Subject: Re: Almost
Date: 26 Aug 2000 21:39:42
Message: <39A87146.32FE4695@aol.com>
> Lower your pretrace_end to at least .01; this won't completely smooth
> the shadows, but it helps. You can go even lower if you want, but values
> smaller than .01 don't seem to have a significant effect on either
> quality or render time as far as I can tell.

.01 seems to be the sweet spot along with an error_bound of .3.  I think it
looks similiar to the arnold renders now, minus the highlights because there
are no lights in there scene.  Now I'm going to try rendering a 120 frame
animation of it.  This should be fun... :)

-Mike


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From: MikeH
Subject: Re: Almost
Date: 26 Aug 2000 21:40:59
Message: <39A87193.2F427DE4@aol.com>
> All it would need is to hunch down instead
> of looking like he's playing airplane doing a takeoff  :-)

I believe I can flyI believe I can touch the sky
Think about it every night and day
Spread my wings and....can't believe I typed that.

-Mike


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From: Steve
Subject: Re: Almost
Date: 27 Aug 2000 13:12:53
Message: <slrn8qihko.kku.steve@zero-pps.localdomain>
He looks cool.  

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From: Peter Warren
Subject: Re: Almost
Date: 28 Aug 2000 02:30:33
Message: <39aa0709$1@news.povray.org>
Very subtle, looks great.

Always nice to see a pov/renderman diff.

No one can 'win'.

Oh, my pizza is ready,

gotta run,

Peter Warren
Proud Povray user since 1996.


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