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Chema (Fryrender developer) answered me you can e-mail him when you have questions or issues using the demo. To my question to create a seperate demo section on their forum, he told it is not planned. (unfortunately ). So I suggest filling their e-mail box with questions untill they have enough and do make that section after all.

Downloading now! Thanks guys. It's like Christmas a little....

You can't use mat definitions from other renders.

@solo said: David, I posted this http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=8446&start=15 in another thread you replied in regarding rocks, attached is a zip file with two images. One image is the texture/image and the other is the clipmap/alpha of the above thread rock garden render, I hope this helps. The original image is pure 3d model and once rendered I extracted the alpha channel to create a clipmap. I am compiling a whole series of clipmaps for Podium 2 (they will be in .png format as the new engine will recognize .png) and they will include flower beds, trash, debris, trees, shrubs, etc (everyday stuff) Unfortunately it will be about three months before I and P2 will be done. [off topic]Thanks for that little gem right there![/off topic]

Gotcha :`) sorry if you thought me serious.

hey Nothing to add. Just wanted to reply so this would be removed for the unanswered posts list.

you should post that on the testimonials link from the SU home page

Sorry for not replying earlier. You can use http://www.hdrlabs.com/picturenaut/ freeware to manipulate your .hdr. Quite easy soft to use.

Some one on the forum mentioned a 3d printscreen app. Might work?

@nankyo said: check out the Rhino Labs things : http://en.wiki.mcneel.com/default.aspx/McNeel/RhinoHomeLabs.html there is plug ins to im/wx directly Did you read the earlier posts at all?

Theres quite a few good manual on kerkythea over at the kerkythea website, just have a look at the downloads section. Theres the FAQ on the podium website, which is quite good for podium related stuff. The best pace t look for info is the respecive websites for the rendering engines. In general there is a wealth of information in the forums that isnt in many of the manuals.

Just a final update on the matter. I tried connecting at home this morning before going to work and there was still no luck. I then tried at work and had no problem at connecting to the KT site. A colleague of mine who also uses KT and frequents the KT forums told me that he couldn't connect at home either. So it looks like connecting via a proxy server is at least working for us. Still think its really weird though!?!?!

Great, I am really looking forward to it...and purchasing the full version!

completely in Vue.

Thanks Fredrik! The translucent material were just what I was looking for - don't know how I missed them before. I used those materials for the shades and just replaced the spotlights with a face and the illuminat material mapped to them - very easy to control. Here is an update with those changes - I still have a little more tweaking I want to do. Bytor [image: p6Tk_wilkahn_mlt_test-2-5.jpg]

Ya i have the echo edition i figure I will try remaking the material in kerkythea again and see what happens Runnin Till Tackled Eric

Although I'm part of the KT Team and people thereby might disqualify me for replying here, I give it a go anyway... To answer your first question: No you're not dreaming... KT is a really good and stable render... And perhaps most impressive... One of the few render applications, where you can take advantage of both biased and unbiased render methods... But since it's free, you can easily test and check it out yourself and be your own judge...! Some users find KT difficult to use, while others adapt the techniques very quickly... The same can be said about any other render application... I recommend that you download and read the Getting Started tutorial, which will guide you through the application enabling you to get started... In our Tutorials section of our Download area, you can find many useful tutorials... Even some of the older tutorials might help you crasp things better... As a final word regarding how to make a good render, I will take a very wise quote by Pete (aka Solo): @unknownuser said: ...you must realize having the tools does not make one a carpenter, meaning that there is a level of artistic talent and desire needed in order to set up a scene, composition, lighting, texturing, modeling, and so forth that requires one to have a genuine interest and find much enjoyment in what one is doing in order to succeed... I hope this can help you further...!?

agreed. tread = jacked. 272

Hi, recon. The obj problem is a flaw with the model; if you import it in any other program and it will appear the same... the only real way to fix this is to just rotate your model . I'm not sure what you mean about messed up vertex's... perhaps the model is not smoothed or it is smoothed too much. If this is the case, simply right click the model name and in the smooth tab, select your preferred angle of smoothing. If you need some extra help with KT, there are a bunch of good tutorials in the tutorial repository.