Thanks !

Without your work, mine would be way more complicated. Thanks again.

Well, I usually never comment any work (just because I'm lazy), but in this case... yours are spectacular.

I'm not a professional so I haven't the knowledge to fully judge renders in general, anyway...

I think the main problem for most of the people in this field is to match modeller + render ...

I had the same problem. I use Octane mainly for animation and find a percentage of less that 1% that O.R. crashes rendering a frame.

I solved the problem disabling the crash report error in Windows (so Octane closes without any prompt), leaving it render what it can and render again the missing ...

Thanks for the help... normals matter but in a strange way.

The normals were ok but when I tested them pointing inwards well... see the pictures... the wrong direction works...

Am I doing some stupid error ?

I was playing a little with lights and I found a problem assigning the same emitting material to a different object (see pictures).

In the first picture I link the inner front cube to an emitting material but nothing happens. The same material applied to the inner back cube works (picture 2).

I'm ...

Thanks ! I'll try these too.

I already thought it's a difficult task. Maybe it's better to find another neutral background, instead of pure white I mean.

Anyway don't worry, I really appreciated your idea, many thanks.

Thanks matej,
Using something to be reflected is normally a very good idea but I don't know if my case is normal...

Here is a part that has to be included into the animation (I forgot to mention that I have to render an animation, I don't know wether this could give someone an idea).

You can see ...

Hello,
I have to render some chromed components in a white background.
So no pieces to be reflected...

Even worse some of them are squared (big flat surfaces).

It's the tipical situation of a mirror reflecting... nothing ! You can't see it !

Any idea of the setup of the material (or even the ...

Hello, here is a small video.

http://vimeo.com/16999862

It's something I'd like to add at the beginning of our video presentations (I don't know the english term).

I need some hints. I did it but I don't like it too much. :o

Above all, the water at the end is not so convincing...

Any idea ...