3delight tests

Mathaeus · Post by **Mathaeus** » 03 Apr 2011, 21:19

Hi,

That's a some kind of ICE photon mapping. For picture on top, I've added ICE point cloud for additional bounces. Finally it's rendered together with only one classic light + point-based color bleeding. It's very basic for now, but it doesn't requires almost any additional scene preparation (baking to maps, so on). Whole rendering process takes about 7-10 minutes on 2 core 3delight, on 1365x768. ICE part is just non-simulated, immediate ray-casting, no any dart-throw sorting or other advanced stuff. Particles are aligned to surface normal and default, one-side color bleeding is used, so algorithm catches only a 'far-away' ones.

Mathaeus · Post by **Mathaeus** » 04 Apr 2011, 18:10

... and that's how it's look like when "sortbleeding" is enabled - much better shadows.. Now it's about 14 min on 2core, for 1365x768. Taking in account, all trash of particles I've supplied as 'photons', it's really amazing how 3dl handles with this.

I'll definitively work more on these 'ICE photons'.

rray · Post by **rray** » 04 Apr 2011, 20:37

Wow good, wouldn't have thought that ICE and 3dl could work together so tightly.

Mathaeus · Post by **Mathaeus** » 01 May 2011, 00:58

Yet another WIP, now with almost all knobs on. Subsurface scattering, hair, DOF, particles, a lot of geometry. Character (including hair) is rendered in one go, I think it's first time I was been able to use the same lighting setup for everything. Rendertimes for 1536*2048 with 2 core 3delight and a weak machine: about 40 minutes for character (a lot of this goes to raytraced AO), 7 mins for dust/particles, 6 mins for ground.
Of course that's just wip, there's a tons changes to do.

Take a look at 1152*2048

ace63 · Post by **ace63** » 01 May 2011, 13:25

Holy sh*t

Nice rendertimes for that resolution with a weak machine and only 2 cores!
And quite a nice look aswell

Mathaeus · Post by **Mathaeus** » 01 May 2011, 16:33

Thank You.... all

A few variations here. My choice is 'half-profile', no need for de-symmetry work on face

Back on the topic, lighting is a light rig with about 30 lights with DSM, plus raytraced AO on some places. I've used Fabricio Chamon's ambient lights script for taking the lights from HDR image. It's really easy to adapt this script...

big one

ShaderOp · Post by **ShaderOp** » 02 May 2011, 06:55

That's just fraking awesome!

Hirazi Blue · Post by **Hirazi Blue** » 02 May 2011, 08:32

Impressive as always! I agree the half-profile looks better and not just because of the symmetry but looks like a slightly less forced pose. I like the suit very much also...
;)

Nizar · Post by **Nizar** » 03 May 2011, 09:00

Agree, impressive, and like really mush the '50 scifi style you use.

Rez007 · Post by **Rez007** » 03 May 2011, 14:44

Great job as usual! I really like the overall design of the character, especially the suit. Very nice renders!

Mathaeus · Post by **Mathaeus** » 14 May 2011, 23:10

Thank You guys!

so that's a final image. I've added a bit of EmFluid. As I heard from experienced people in this field, there should be a city in the background, or some smoke instead

. Particles were rendered as 'lightweight' point particles, as 3delight automatically uses this mode with point particle shape.

Cheers

huge picture...

shadow_ex_ · Post by **shadow_ex_** » 15 May 2011, 06:12

great character^^

ActionArt · Post by **ActionArt** » 16 May 2011, 18:01

That's looking great!

I'm still sitting here with no 3Delight. I keep getting the error 5050 licence error and can't figure it out. I've posted many times on their forum but they seem to have no intention of helping which doesn't bode well if I purchased a license and then needed support.

Mathaeus · Post by **Mathaeus** » 16 May 2011, 18:44

Thank You!

Well I'm probably the last person on this planet with some usable knowledge about networks and services, but anyway: that I know, exactly the same message can appear if a free version of standalone 3delight is running in the same time with free plugin for SI (which seems to be logical, otherwise four cores would be allowed).
But I think you don't have a standalone 3delight installed. So my very wild guessing, is that SI plugin recognizes *something* as 'another copy of itself'. Now, what this is... I don't know.

Hirazi Blue · Post by **Hirazi Blue** » 16 May 2011, 19:27

@ActionArt - Could it be there is still a rogue "license.dat" or "rendermn.ini" on your computer from an earlier install?

ActionArt · Post by **ActionArt** » 16 May 2011, 19:34

Like you say, I think it must think that something else is 3Delight or there is a stray file from a previous version but I don't know what or where it is. I've tried everything I can think of.

I have SI 2011 and 2012 installed but 2011 doesn't have 3Delight installed and I've searched the whole system for any files that might be related. This is the only computer in the shop with SI on it. I also tried putting it on 2011 but got the same thing.

@Harazi - There doesn't seem to be unless it's hiding really well.

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