Thanks man!

Wow, talk about down to the wire.

I was so freaked out when I saw the thread had been closed ... I've never browsed-typed-uploaded so fast in my life.


Thanks again, and good luck with the judging! So many awesome images.

My submission was not late!!!

Leave windows/openings empty ... no efficient glass rendering currently, no portals, etc.

Crank up the exposure to capture what little light gets in there.

thwak wrote:Thank you for making my point for me.

Hey, that was your post!? So I'm the one who's confused here!

thwak wrote:Do the 2.49 settings not warrant posting? Still a lot of folks on here using it.

It's at the top of the previous page.

I believe that's just the shading which results from your lighting setup. Lit from below, you get shadows above ... moving your main light source would help, or you could add another (dimmer) lamp higher up to fill in the darker areas.

Isn't Triangulate supposed to be enabled as well?

I suppose pathtracing was easier/faster to code and get the app running. MLT is on it's way ... it's taken some time and will improve the renderered output.

No trouble! Glad you got it sorted out.

Now just throw a studio HDRI around that thing and shiny it up a bit!

Using the same basic setup (Blender 2.49b, Octane 0.8a '9000.exe', XP-64) I exported 4 cubes and a plane with different materials (the file is attached if you want to try it) ... all seemed to work fine.

The OBJ export settings I used for this simple scene are also attached (they would be a bit ...