Lighting Project

[remus]

Thanks. I was wondering what caused those lines.

[boofredlay]

Very nice remus.

[tomot]

@remus said:

Indigo indeed, and it only took 18 hours

18 hours! that's like watching paint dry Seriously, though that's not a good carbon footprint. Look at all the electricity that was used just to make a 2d light bulb, look 3d.

Are we all going insane?

[remus]

<twisted logic>

I dont own a car (or plan to), so that sort of cancels it out.

</twisted logic>

[tomot]

@remus said:

<twisted logic>

I dont own a car (or plan to), so that sort of cancels it out.

</twisted logic>

So why did it take that long? (even Maxwell does not take that long)

1. slow CPU?
2. slow rendering execution?
3. other?

[remus]

In this case I think it was a combination of slowish CPU, large output size and the single light source.

Could I ask what makes you think maxwell would be faster? I would have thought the render times would have been pretty similar really.

[tomot]

@remus said:

In this case I think it was a combination of slowish CPU, large output size and the single light source.

Could I ask what makes you think maxwell would be faster? I would have thought the render times would have been pretty similar really.

It used to be similar until I finally got a quad core machine.

[remus]

Alas i'm stuck with a mere dual core. I'm sure a render farm would fix that, though

[marked001]

nice job on the SSS... shade looks great.... i dont think maxwell would be any faster, personally.... depending on the settings for the SSS material on the shade..

[remus]

I didnt bother with sss for the shade, kept it single face thickness and used a diffuse transmitter. Just me being too lazy to model the shade with thickness, really.

[marked001]

haha....even better

[tomot]

@remus said:

Alas i'm stuck with a mere dual core. I'm sure a render farm would fix that, though

Its hard to compare resuslts, I'm just learning, and test driving V-ray for SU
It did this simple rendering in 7 min.

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[remus]

Just a mini update, heres the real thing for comparison.

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[tinanne]

Remus, Nice job. I like the warmth of the light. Make me want to take a nap....

[Chris Fullmer]

Is that a missing petal? or is it a design feature?

[remus]

i suppose you could call it a 'feature' Its more my dodgy workmanship really.

[Chris Fullmer]

oh, looking back the first render I get it now. The petals are in pairs, so there are gaps on purpose. In this photo, only one gap is visible, sort of looked like a single missing petal.

Is it stained glass? Did you slump the glass yourself?

[remus]

It's tissue paper that i sprayed with PVA A lot easier to work with than glass.

[Chris Fullmer]

This lamp is full of surprises. Quite nice, well done.

Chris