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      djh
      last edited by

      Is there an easy way to shine light, for example, into an open box? So the colors inside the box don't change from the shadow. I've tried TheaRender, LightUp, etc. They seem very very complicated.

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        pilou
        last edited by

        You will not find more easy renders than LightUp, Podium, Twillight...

        So maybe try that

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          djh
          last edited by

          Thank you for replying.

          I tried Twilight, Maxwell, Lightup, Podium, and Thea. The rendering seems to take a long time and my computer crashes.

          Windows XP 32-bit
          CPU: E2200 @ 2,20GHz
          RAM: 2GB

          Should I just settle for the default sunlight?

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          • pilouP Offline
            pilou
            last edited by

            @unknownuser said:

            my computer crashes.

            What is the size of the file ?

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              djh
              last edited by

              3,000 KB

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              • pilouP Offline
                pilou
                last edited by

                So it's nothe size who crash the computer!
                You are with XP, maybe your config is a little old fashion for today renders?

                Can you post the skp file or an example of a crash file ?

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                  djh
                  last edited by

                  175 2A 003 2014-07-08 12473500000.png175 2A 003 2014-07-08 12473500000.pngPilou,

                  I realized that the easiest thing to do is alter the Shadow Settings/Light and/or Dark. I don't really need the fancy rendering, just to be able to see inside of the boxes.

                  Thank you for your help.


                  175 2A 003.skp


                  175 2A 003 1600.jpg

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                  • pilouP Offline
                    pilou
                    last edited by

                    Seems they don't crash! 😉

                    pouss.jpg

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                      kaas
                      last edited by

                      @djh said:

                      I tried Twilight, Maxwell, Lightup, Podium, and Thea. The rendering seems to take a long time and my computer crashes.

                      CPU: E2200 @ 2,20GHz
                      RAM: 2GB

                      My guess is: you're scene is a bit too heavy (121047 edges, 54682 faces) for your computer to render. I did a quick rendering using LightUp and posted the 'render settings' if you want to try yourself. For your computer I would change the '3cm' to '30cm' to start with and if it doesn't crash divide it by 2 until it crashes again.


                      LU_settings.jpg


                      175 2A 003_LightUp.jpg

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                        djh
                        last edited by

                        It still crashes and I get a message "insufficient OpenGL functionality" (see attached).

                        Can you recommend a different program?Light-Up.jpgLight-Up.jpgLight-Up.jpgLight-Up.jpg

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                        • Dave RD Offline
                          Dave R
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                          This was just a quickie in Kerkythea. It ran while I was shaving. I didn't spend any time on the materials because your materials need help anyway and very little time was spent on setting up the three lights. The two in front need a little attention to get some better modeling inside the boxes but that is trivial.
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                          You may have to accept that your computer just isn't up to the task of doing the rendering. Perhaps you need to upgrade your graphics card.

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                            Box
                            last edited by

                            There is also a lot of hidden stuff in your model that could be causing you problems.

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                              notareal
                              last edited by

                              @dave r said:

                              This was just a quickie in Kerkythea. It ran while I was shaving. I didn't spend any time on the materials because your materials need help anyway and very little time was spent on setting up the three lights. The two in front need a little attention to get some better modeling inside the boxes but that is trivial.
                              [attachment=0:32czrko0]<!-- ia0 -->Carts.jpg<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:32czrko0]

                              You may have to accept that your computer just isn't up to the task of doing the rendering. Perhaps you need to upgrade your graphics card.

                              Indeed, even the model is a bit mess, it can be used for rendering (tested with Thea). Wonder what's the used GPU (if any), or are you using some integrated graphics. For me error give a impression that used GPU has no proper OpenGL support.

                              Welcome to try [Thea Render](http://www.thearender.com/), Thea support | [kerkythea.net](http://www.kerkythea.net/) -team member

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                                djh
                                last edited by

                                Indeed, I have only a Intel G33/G31 Chipset Video Card.

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