Candle render Challenge (all render engines)

EarthMover · 6 May 2009, 23:19

Could you supplement the .avi with a small omni light as it doesn't appear to have any light casting quality?

solo · 6 May 2009, 23:50

I have a small omni present, I could bump up the multiplier for more glow.

nomeradona · 7 May 2009, 04:55

i love the animated flame pete...

Eulgrand · 7 May 2009, 05:53

This dancing flame is really cool

EscapeArtist · 8 May 2009, 21:55

I'd love to enter this challenge; but darnit, my windows PC took a dump yesterday(watch out for the latest nVidia system drivers, at least on the 780i) due to corrupted USB drivers and I can't get into the comp at all thanks to only having USB mouse and keyboard.

Not to mention my monitor picked today to die.

Complaints, I has them! Don't close the challenge yet ! That is, unless there's a way to get Sketchup working on my Linux laptop!

MrPlanet · 9 May 2009, 16:37

My Indigo gave me a great day to stop working
Anyone know the solution?

majid · 17 May 2009, 15:01

hi all
this is my entry: SU+ KT (flame blure PS)

Frederik · 17 May 2009, 15:08

Really nice one, Majid...!!

MrPlanet · 17 May 2009, 16:10

Here is mine. I finally got my Indigo working, I think the flame could be better. My 3rd render.

steelers05 · 18 May 2009, 13:59

solo: very impressive flame. liking it

jmmad · 18 May 2009, 15:00

Ive seen realy fotorealistics renders of candles in this post
Solo your candle animation whas Impresive
did you model the flame in vue with a volumetric material?

Majid your candle looks very realistic too

AdamB · 18 May 2009, 16:25

[Displacement activities.. you gotta love em]

Here's a candle model I found on 3dwarehouse just now. Just added the flame and made the base shiny metal.

The flame is animated in realtime but I can't upload the .mov file so I've put a 320x240 on Vimeo
[flash=400,300:vcjxbftd]http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4710188[/flash:vcjxbftd]

Adam

Gaieus · 19 May 2009, 00:30

Is that animation LightUp, Adam?
(I gotta try it once - I even have the "project" for it...)

AdamB · 19 May 2009, 09:04

@gaieus said:

Is that animation LightUp, Adam?
(I gotta try it once - I even have the "project" for it...)

Sure is.

The all new, all dancing v1.5 is hopefully out tomorrow too.
(Which is the version that has all this color/texture animation support)

Adam

sepo · 19 May 2009, 09:15

Is there also objects animation included. I seem too recall seeing that as well. Sure it looks very promissing.

Gaieus · 19 May 2009, 09:17

@adamb said:

The all new, all dancing v1.5 is hopefully out tomorrow too.

Don't rush, Adam, don't rush. Make it perfect instead
(Unfortunately I have no time to try it ATM and it would only be a teaser )

Eulgrand · 20 May 2009, 18:56

Majid,

Your wax material is really great, would you share your settings ? KT's Sss is not the most documented topic...

Frederik · 20 May 2009, 19:45

It's not that difficult, Eulgrand...

I suggest that you go ahead and download the Transluscent.mat.zip from the KT Forum...
Take the "Milk" or the "Plastic transluscent" and play around with the colors and material settings...

Eulgrand · 20 May 2009, 20:53

Frederik,

You can bet I already did that, but something in my brain still has not get connected, and I can hardly figure out how Absorption, Emittance, Scatter and Falloff interact with each other (what do they control, is there a unit of measure for each of these parameters ?). All I could do until now was like throwing dice

Thanks for your kind attention.

Frederik · 20 May 2009, 21:15

Have you taken a look at page 35 in the Kerkythea Material Editor Guide for KT2007...??

Although it was originally made for KT2007, basics remain identical for KT2008 and the explanation Patrick have made is much more accurate than what I can do...