Render this: Old Camera

[HornOxx]

Such a great model and such a nice idea to to invite us to render

Here is my attempt using Shaderlight

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[Rich O Brien]

@hornoxx said:

Here is my attempt using Shaderlight

ShaderLight still getting development?

[HornOxx]

@rich o brien said:

ShaderLight still getting development?

Hi Rich
absolutely yes - but not so much in the speed of development or in the elimination of one or two old "childhood diseases" ...
However, until now the direct support there is very responsive, really helpful and uncomplicated.

[HornOxx]

... and here is another one, rendered with RENDER[IN]

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[Mike Amos]

Nice render.

[Richard]

Some seriously nice renders of what looks to be obviously a sweet model!!! Well done all!

It is strange time when we are making completely CGI images of an old camera, oh how things have changed!

[HornOxx]

@richard said:

...it is strange time when we are making completely CGI images of an old camera, oh how things have changed!

this obvious and true thought never occurred to me so far.
Well spoken Richard!

[baz]

I was struggling with the diffuser on the flash when SU crashed and of course I hadn't saved so I lost all the material presets, can't be fagged doing it again so this pre-save is as far as I got...

Rendered with TwilightV2 (09 Interior, about an hour)

[Bryan K]

So many different styles and all of them excellent!

[david_h]

Meh. . . .

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[tuna1957]

had to have go also. great model .... but 95 textures . made SU puke a few times. not even sure I got material templates applied to everything. TwilightV2 easy 9 . have to go back in it and have another go... was kind of fun.

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[david_h]

I think I did something wrong. . .

[tuna1957]

david h, nice.....

[david_h]

okay.. . I gotta come clean. I didn't render this. I just posted this as a gag. I really do suck at this stuf--wish it were mine though. Mea culpa. . .

[tuna1957]

david h , wish you hadn't confessed. I rather liked thinking you were one of the render gods !

[david_h]

well I am .. .just a lesser GOd. . .you know. . like Loki

[tuna1957]

Well I must like torturing myself. Had another go at this thing. Tweaked some of the materials. Redrew the flash lens. The way it was drawn I wasn't getting such a good result. Redrew lens so it was a solid piece and plugged some gaps on each side of the flash body. Still not sure of the best material set up for flash reflector. Might play with it some more.
It's a frustrating model to work with. Froze up or crashed SU a good number of times. Was crashing TwilightV2 at every turn. I suspect it's the number of materials and how deep stuff is grouped.
Wanted to create a bump map for the texture on the camera bodies but couldn't get SU to export the material. Got an error message every time.
All in all not a bad second try. If I feel energetic might go back into the model and pare down the number of materials and see if things get a little more responsive.

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