Ockham,

Naturally I am stunned and thrilled to find you have already worked out the difficulties of a morphable piano keyboard. I pulled out the really cool "yellowing old ivory" color built into the model, learned to y-trans the keys, and tried some renders. Here's what the model looks like in the display settings:

But I am having trouble with the renders. "Smooth polygons" is definately off. Also, I tried Firefly and P4 engine, tried shadow map and raytrace, cast shadow-don't cast shadow, tried one light and three, and quite a few different settings.

I don't know if I am doing something wrong, but I can't ge the render to respect the edges of the keys as you can see below.

Ockham, right after you posted I had to leave my studio and having just arrived back have really just begun experimenting, so I will probably figure out what is amiss, but any comment you have might help.

Thanks, and the offer to add the Bosendorfer deep bass is tremendous. Please don't do anything on my account yet on that score, I want to see if I can settle your keyboard into a grand piano first.

You know what Tori Amos calls the Bosendorfer deep bass? "My subwoofers."

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Message edited on: 02/17/2005 01:20