bit of a pain as I think the fx5200 in the server is buggered - it won't boot! managed to destroy a vga cable too, trying to plug my monitor in to check what was going on
No criticism there, i just said more polys dont affect render times that much, there are more important factors, otherwise i totally agree, rounded corners do a lot for realism ! @ metric, do i see particles ?
caps are fine, and no fan! go-go passive cooling. everything looks physically fine! Then again I pulled the card and it still won't boot :/ i don't want to have to find a socket 478 server board
I think I win the fail award. The p4 plug was loose! it worked fine to start with then I re-arranged the cases, so the plug fell out. FAIL x.x Servers running again with the fx5200
lenne0815: I added a subtle bumpmap to simulate light/micro surface pits and scratches. About 45 minutes of tweaking the subsurface scattering settings and another 3 hours of rendering, I think my white delrin material is just about done
things go so much quicker with 4 threads! (2 on this pc (dualcore), 2 on the server(p4 with HT)) fail on the image resize though, rendering at max kk res
Wow, that looks cool confusis! GREAT improvement! How did you get the plexi to look that way? Are you sure about that background color though?
i tried other background colours and they affected the colours in the model wayyyyyyy too much! the plexi is just the first material in the glass pack from the KK website
That looks awesome confusis! I'm with Aterius on the background colour though, its a shame it has an impact on the model have you tried using a slightly reflective white material?
Or how about some slightly reflective (10%?) darkish grey? That way the orange would draw the viewer's attention to the model. I bet one of your problems with the white background is the way you can see the reflection in the plexi: You can see exactly where the scene ends, as you are not using DOF.
confusis, add a chrome material to the fans i kinda liked the red background more though and also, Metric, that delrin material looks awesome
HELP ME!!! Well I gave rendering a go and I suck at it. Alot. Heres what came out after about a minute which is as long as it will run for for some reason. There used to be a reservoir on top but it didn't like having something all glass so it just disappeared. Anyway could someone give me alot of help? Thanks.
