thanks for the compliments guys, i appreciate it! heres an attempt again on a PR render...but it just doesnt seem right and i cant figure out why??? for starters i noticed the materials are off and need some bump and stuff....what is that secret ingredient i am missing? [image: oJ5o_livingPR5.jpg]

Mate we have a timber here Turpentine that lasts decades in the water! Actually it's from the tree that makes the now world heritage area - The Blue Mountains west of Sydney actually blue from a distance due to the turpentinian vapour that fills the air and due to scattering of blue light resulting!

oops wrong LED thread

thank you!!!

I redid this adding the gnome. He just seemed to belong. Plus I threw in some other mislaid game pieces. (mr. Green is floating in the air. .. . ) [image: nf7l_toys.jpg]

Ok, good to see what we can do with SU...

Nice renders, but a bit too colorish in my sight. and were are the edge lines (in my tip, they are present )

@unknownuser said: Nice Joe, welcome. Can we see more close up shots of your ship? Maybe some wire frames? If you ever do find them post them up as it looks like an interesting shape!

Pbacot...this is more exception to rule than standard. In UK the drive to conserve is so strong than anything goes. The famous "to match" (whatever that means) rules.

Great!

Fantastic image! You should improve the asphalt material. What rendering engine?

Great well done keep it up

im dazed,,, still cant find it.

Thanks EA. Pilou, have you seen Hypercube, Cube 2. I like them both.

'I feel sorry for people recently graduating and looking for work though....must be a nightmare.' Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh not looking forward to it!!!

Very nice work, I like how you have used the lines as an overlay.

Hi Nero, Couldn't understand too much of the narration but it obviously gets the message through. Nice video!

@fabulafr said: Great, i like it! Would you mind explain your tips to get thi kind of render. I downloaded your model, but i dont really find how to achieve it, i dont even succeed in turning my background black Thanks again! Mate to get MuseumMakers fade effect to the distance turn on fog and use black fog and adjust settings to your liking you will get very much the same effect. SU - Windows > Fog!

Hey thank all for the positive comments! @ Dermot - Mate I hope the scene setup I posted helps somewhat with your own kitchen, one of the beauties of working with Maxwell, Indigo, Fry or soon Thea is support for lighting adjustment during or after rendering. This tends to make lighting a no brainer!! Though some effort / testing was needed to get the panel located and directed where they would have the desired effect! That said I possibly could have reduced the number of panels as a few were effectively reduced to very low power in the final - though handy to have there just in case! @ Tianne - (Hmmm, don't think I can say mate here - oh no, oh um, help I'm lost, oh well) Mate as I posted to your tests make those panel lights your friend - though this was my first proper interior I have had the advantage of reading so many posts on the maxwell forums in the past only to realise you just can't get good scene lighting without them. Any real photos of interiors you see in mags have been supported by quite a lot of artificial lighting generally! @ Oli - Yes mate the lighting is the same with maybe only some minor positional and directional changes to the emitter panels! Again thanks all for the comments!!

The glow doesn't travel too far. I experimented with a few locations but settled for less flash on the sign. It did lead me to an interesting quandary of sorts. Should the render look like a photograph-- or what your eye can see. They are different things especially at night. ?