camera flash

[Proupin]

I'm with manalokos... I personally don't like 'built-in flash' renders at all. It looks hiperreal because it reminds us of our cheap compact cameras and the crappy night shots we ended up having, or shown to us... it's just a gimmick. Anyone can have this feature in Octane if they so choose, just parent the camera to a flash fitting and there you go.... if you happen to use Octane in its plugin form...

You can even model a QUALITY flash, or more in general lighting equipment such as rings, portable strobes, umbrellas, light boxes... It seems as if you are asking for a library, which I wouldn't be against

[glimpse]

Rather than asking developers integrate some cheep looking effects we should leave them working on much more important stuff: there will always be programs/platforms and plugins, or 'plugins for plugins' (if that makes any sence to say =) what I ment to say best ilustrates this:

http://www.agtoolcompany.com/ag2/studio ... -vray-tmp/ company called A&G Tools got some really nice stuff that I got my hands on a year ago. Basically what that is - a library of very neat stuff used from photographers to build photographic setups. That's what is actually helps artist.. I don't see this as a OTOYs develped feature, rather someOnes from outside doing integration let's say in max so these tools would be compatible.

As for bringing flash functionality into Octane..Well it's like giving top of the line Canon or Nikon in the hands of amatuer..- are they going to get very good images with it? I doubt..and the main reason here is because it's not what You use, but rather what You have inside that actually pushes the quality forward - there's a lot of photographers that made quite stuning images with cheapo cameras..'cos they have what to say & there is a lot of those whose spend thousands to take another amatuerish shot of their pet..

..and for that link from Studio Aiko..- this backfires to all those +1'ers. Just take a look at the outcome this guy is making out! It's rather deep photographic, artistic and technical knowledge that standOut rather then relyance on some prebuilt engines functionality..- these pictures have been released quite a while ago..and topped out some of the worlds best know forums not becaused this guy 'just pushed the button on the program' ..

Don't be naive in the end. If You really want to achieve this effect there nothing that stops You right now doing that.. Moving emiter around even in stanalone when we have movable proxies is not hard..and even gives more flexibility: get some inspiration around and star workin'..

Once more: I'd rather see some work from devs with things that maters most, that bottle-necks production or limitts usage of Octane..not some second grade functionality for lazy guys (no insult, that's my personal oppinion - we have forum here to discust and talk about various topics, so don't be angry reading differnt oppinion =)

Cheers.

P.S. http://www.josefbsharah.net/category/vraystudiotools/ One more Tool - that's what makes different & what is actually USEFUL =) probably asking these developers to make intagration with OR or ORs plugins would be a bit better idea.

[Elvissuperstar007]

people enough to argue. outbreak has been promised to us. sooner or later it will have to do

[Force44]

+ very useful

[Karba]

Well, so many wishes...

What is more important - displacement map, motion blur or camera flash?
Or maybe camera flash is more important then fast voxelization process?

[badmilk69]

Hahaha, hell no, fast voxelization +1000000

[Elvissuperstar007]

Well, so many wishes...

What is more important - displacement map, motion blur or camera flash?
Or maybe camera flash is more important then fast voxelization process?

All this is important. I just recalled something. that erased long ago

[steveps3]

-1

we don't need this AT ALL.

[Elvissuperstar007]

-1

we don't need this AT ALL.

I need it!
I know where I will apply. If you do not want is your problemma, but it was promised. Let incorporate the lists again
just flash. it's just a modification of the camera.

[kavorka]

-10
all those other features are more important