Well let me ask about the other extreme then. Say I have a studio lighting animation where everything is just infinite white and I have objects moving around and deforming. Would I get flicker with final gather? I know LightWave's radiosity get's a lot of flicker without cache.. and it doesn't even ...

Question: should everything I use be the mia_material_x node? or just reflective / refractive objects?

Yes! Exactly! Thanks

I hope my question made sense

I'm trying to get two black and white images on this wall.. One on the top and one on the bottom. I've made a cubic projection so that I can control the size better. It seems like when I try to mix them that only one of them shows. I can't figure out how to make the black and white image work as a t...

Whoa!! Thanks so much fer!! That's awesome! What book are you reading? I'd love to learn all the technicalities of mental ray or US / AS. Ill have slightly reflective surfaces since there will be porcelein. But ill post some tests later on.

Awesome!! Thanks so much for your help! I'm gonna get home and do a few texts after I texture some things. Is there somewhere I can read more on unified sampling or just mental ray for XSI in general?

Is that with the unified sampling or the regular system? I guess it will depend too on resolution right? Do you up differend numbers for bigger resolutions? I'm doing 1280x720

would good production settings for AA be a quality of 5ish?

how do I get rid of splotchies with Unified sampling? Here the image with more diffuse and gamma correction!

What kind of scenes take the most advantage out of unified sampling?

Thanks so much!! What do you mean by diffuse FG bounce? is that the trace depth diffuse parameter in my picture?

Hey all,

I'm trying to get a low lit room rendered and I can't seem to get the room lit without blowing out the lights. I'm using 3 area lights.
Here's what the scene looks like / settings.

pluMmet wrote:I'm very curious about the way you name your files

Good work BTW

LOLOLOL!!! Sorry.. don't mean to resurrect an older thread.. just thought that was funny

Yeah it just doesn't make sense to me why they'd only do that for Max. Seems like they want most people heading that way. The only problem I have with max is that you spend so much more money an all the essential plugins (Box, krakatoa, TP, fumefx, etc.) and they all cost quite a bit. You might save...

Letterbox wrote:Arnolds rendering policy is core's/cpu's/batch.

I know it's off topic, but fair's fair you deserve a bit of marketing freedom.

Nah, this is totally on topic. It'd be good to know and compare with mental ray.