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unphazed · Member Joined: 18 Jan 2010 Posts: 46

Ok, so I've been trying forever to make a box that's been mapped on all 6 sides with transparent .pngs that have light beams on them, that I would like to use to add fx to my scene. Only prob is, it always ends up as a big grey box, despite that in the modeler it looks fine. The render is when it messes up.

Anyone got any tips?

AWM Mars · Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 1:57 am Post subject: Re: Lightbeams

trucker2000 · Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 2:46 am Post subject: Re: Lightbeams

Paul-Jan · Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 11:11 am Post subject:

unphazed · Member Joined: 18 Jan 2010 Posts: 46

I'm using the built in raytracer. I'd like to export my entire scene (when it's finished) into Vue, but I like to check things as I go along so I can just export/import and directly render Smile

. As for the model, it's a simple cube modeled from/into deled.

I havn't tried tga, so I'll try that, and I've tried just about every option, lightmapping on, lm off, shadows off, shadow cast off, etc. Like I said, looks great in the modeling window, but as soon as it renders - er - crap.

BTW, anyone got any suggestions on the best (preferably free) renderer for rendering these scenes (preferably simply render as is with no modification (maybe lights), and maybe even w/ radiance? I'm doing an indoor scene, but would like to pour radiant light from outside in. Is GILES hard to use?

AWM Mars · Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 10:25 pm Post subject:

Yes, I'd like to find such a programme. I've just about exhausted most of those available. What I kept finding is, they either don't have the right importer/exporters, or they are poorly implimented, so you loose all you have gainned when you export.
Blender isnt half bad, but I also have a life, and don't want o spend most of it exploring all the functions.

Renderman renderers are aplenty.
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Paul-Jan · Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 1:58 pm Post subject:

Aha, the builtin raytracer doesn't support this (alpha-transparency) yet. The raytracer is a very recent addition to DeleD, and still quite rough around the edges.

The reason for building it is exactly the problem you describe: there is always loss / change of information when exporting to an external package, so the process is never as WYSIWYG as you would want it to be.