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[enricocerica]

how are you able to render HDRI together with Dalight?

I'm not :/
I first render a daylight image and then a hdr one and mix them together using Gimp playing with the alpha slider.

[teecee2107]

Effectivement, Enrico, je suis certain que ce sont tes magnifiques images qui on fait revenir le soleil aujord'hui !
J'aime beaucoup l'atmosphère de cette série, beaucoup plus 'optimiste' que ta précédente série (que j'ai aussi adorée !). Le soin apporté aux détails est, comme toujours, extraordinaire.

[jmfowler]

Excellent work!

[ROUBAL]

Wonderful scene Enrico !

Didn't you encounter a problem with transparent shadows for trees leaves ?

I have just found that transparent shadows seem to be broken since Octane 1.11 !

http://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=30196&start=70

[enricocerica]

Merci Thierry, j'espère que vous en avez bien profité, bonjour chez toi et à+;)

Thanks Roubal : Yes indeed I have a similar problem with leaks on the wall, I used a blender shrinked wrap mesh (probably like you) and noticed that I had a shadow under the whole surface. Didn't thought to a bug first and finally had to create a mesh covering all my wall to avoid that, but now you point it, it seems to be a bug and I hope this to be solved quickely, very annoying indeed.

[cadvis]

Hello Sir! Great work. I really, really love what you do with octane render and Blender.

'All the vegetation is home made and generated with a script I developed in Python for Blender 2.49'

Any chance of getting that magic script from you ?? Please ?



Thanks

[enricocerica]

Hello Sir! Great work. I really, really love what you do with octane render and Blender.

'All the vegetation is home made and generated with a script I developed in Python for Blender 2.49'

Any chance of getting that magic script from you ?? Please ?



Thanks

Thanks Cadvis,

Well, as said to other who also asked for it, for now I'm trying to sell the trees I'm creating with the script, so if I distribute it, I'll reduce my chances
By the way, the script is not very user friendly and requires some tricks to achieve a result and I don't want to spend time to document it.
I'm trying to port it to blender 2.6 and maybe, one day I'll offer it ...

[ROUBAL]

Hi Enrico, I have understood what happens with transparent shadows : it is not a problem with alpha shadows, but it is due to the fact that the mesh underneath the sticker has a material using the dirt texture : the dark area is dirt under the sticker !

http://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=30317

A feature allowing the dirt texture generator to ignore faces supporting a transparent alpha would be very usefull to avoid this trouble.

Inverting the normal of the dirt and reducing all parameters of dirt to minimum can help a bit, but the dirt is very few noticeable... often not enough !

[enricocerica]

Hi Enrico, I have understood what happens with transparent shadows : it is not a problem with alpha shadows, but it is due to the fact that the mesh underneath the sticker has a material using the dirt texture : the dark area is dirt under the sticker !

http://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=30317

A feature allowing the dirt texture generator to ignore faces supporting a transparent alpha would be very usefull to avoid this trouble.

Inverting the normal of the dirt and reducing all parameters of dirt to minimum can help a bit, but the dirt is very few noticeable... often not enough !

Thanks roubal,
You confirm what i just noticed yesturday evening, would be great to have a solution for that ...

[cadvis]

Thanks Cadvis,

Well, as said to other who also asked for it, for now I'm trying to sell the trees I'm creating with the script, so if I distribute it, I'll reduce my chances
By the way, the script is not very user friendly and requires some tricks to achieve a result and I don't want to spend time to document it.
I'm trying to port it to blender 2.6 and maybe, one day I'll offer it ...'

Thanks Enricocerica for your reply.

I fully understand that - I had to ask and try . I'll wait for that day /

Thanks