ok i will try 40 subdivs. thank you sir.

valerostudio - nah, just pump out some nice renders and shout about us from a mountaintop. panixia - we haven't added support for layer or texture animation yet, no. thomthom - I have a feeling that video was released by accident, or for a specific purpose. Not for announcing the new version.

Mystery solved thanks to massimo! I had to switch to rgb mode in Photoshop before saving as PNG. All is well now. Now to continue growing trees.

runs the drspawner in the current version now stable? or when is fixed the bug?

@panixia said: @bocomofo said: have you checked the use 'colour texture as transparency' in the diffuse rollout. he did it for sure, elsewhere transparency would have not worked in the diffuse I would rather check if the material was properly applied to the backface, cause that can lead some problem. i suggest check if the material is applied on the front face (turn on monocrhome mode and check) and then use "frontface material to backface" from thomthom's UV Toolkit That sounds like the right answer. I did some quick tests - and if you have a different material on the backface, the shadow will be a half-tone of the transparency of the front and the opacity of the back.

Now it works! Thank you for your help!

you might want to see these tutorials http://www.nomeradona.blogspot.com/2011/08/tutorial-how-to-render-extra-huge.html http://www.nomeradona.blogspot.com/2012/07/different-ways-how-to-produce-large.html

Both of the developers for our plugin were helping you actually. Both Joe and Myself. The entire issue was caused by us being unable to write our error log out to the folder where we normally put it. So we just changed the path to your user folder and it started working just fine. As a quick heads up, and to save you any additional frustration, our manual is a tad outdated (it's about 3 versions old). So the manual will give you a good idea of where to get started, but you should also have a look at our youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE2F8B612F375E98E

I already solution it … i made scenes and make a different archive for it… i erase what docent see on the scene… i had 180 mb and i reduce to 70 at each scene… know i have a problem rendering with distributed render….jaja thank you very much…aaa also cleanup help me a lot! thanks for your time

if you glass material is less than 100% transparent, that may cause it to look foggy. Can you share your material settings (you can save out a "vismat" file from your material editor.) Edit: you're right panixia, I meant vismat!

That was the problem! You absolutely can critique and I appreciate the advice! Would DR also be the problem with the attached file. My walls have big rectangles of wrong colors at the sides of the opening. [image: 9C6Q_cc.0006-3.png]

An official material tutorial would be welcome! Thea is great and every time I read through a tutorial I learn something new and useful.

Environmental Fog for Vray for Sketch up any news on that guys? would be excellent to have that as it would create a very powerful addition!

Not sure what setting you are referring to, but I am glad you figured it out.

Thx andybot. I have the same problem and I do this step to compatibilize the software and it works fine to me.

@solo said: Once you register Thea after purchase you can download some Xfrog trees in the licensed user section, there will be more added as they are optimised for Thea. The next version of Thea is 1,2 probably coming out next month, free upgrade to all registered users so buying now will make sense. How do you plan to use Terragen2? with Vue? Thanks for the info on Thea. I was just holding out in case they had an upcoming sale. Was wondering if historically the cg community had these conditions every year. I actually did some research and chose Terragen over Vue after reading some comparison reviews. Traditionally I been painting landscapes for many years so having a 3D landscape generator makes sense for me to have. I would like to use Terragen to make back drops, and even use generated terrain meshes to import into blender or even Sketchup. I downloaded the demo already and the only issue I'm having so far is the lack of good tutorials and info to learn the thing quickly. I would like the license version to use professionally and break out of the 800x600 maximum res. As far as xfrog goes, aside from the libraries I can get to use in Thea, I would like to have the tree generator itself so I can make my own trees. So far I been using the free Tree[d] program but xfrog look so much better. Im still feeling my way around the cg community and getting an idea of what tools will be great for me to have in my workflow. So far I got plenty of modeling tools, now I am focusing on Thea and anything that enhances the environments for my projects.

Some issues with service provider... we seen these happen time to time.

@panixia said: @andybot said: RT generally works instantly on the lighting/ camera position/ material definitions. The mesh has to be exported again if you make geometry changes to objects in the scene ..... However, I think a CUDA card will be on my xmas list. have a quick look to the whole scene and lighting is still "magic", considering i spend the most time in setting to properly place the camera, adjust sun/lights etc.. and i just got a cuda card so.. can't wait! but, if one can't see the proxy group in the viewport or move it in rt preview, how the placement/snapping of this object will be fine-tuned? I don't know how exactly RT works, I'm just saying the update might take longer than just simply pressing the button and going. Proxies are definitely visible in the RT viewer, I just have no idea how responsive or not it will be. @Devin Too bad about the lack of GPU rendering for RT. But knowing that DR will work is good news. @Pete: thanks for the recommendation

Select the channels you want in the options Render to File - make sure to use EXR and not VRIMG Make sure you have EXR PRO Tools installed in Photoshop (MUST HAVE 64 bit from what I understand. I am using CS5 and it works fine.) Open the EXR file and all of your channels come in as layers. [image: BN6a_Test.JPG]