Rosemaryr opened this issue on Feb 04, 2008 · 59 posts
Rosemaryr posted Tue, 05 February 2008 at 9:40 AM
Oh....okay. Let's try to address some of these responses.
Fran....The initial renders were larger....for my test renders I run around 600x600 or 800x800. I kept the images small to keep the blog entry fairly light weight. I can post some of them here if you want ....I can show a few more (larger) renders here if people want.
As for making the initial "bendy multi-colored image"..I started with a square-aspect new image in Photoshop. Made straight-edged selections (use the 'shift' key to confine the selection to pure vertical, horizontal, or 45-degree lines) to make the triangle shapes, filled them with the colors, then circular selections to cut the white and black in.....Quicker to do than to explain it. grin
Dhama.....if you want I'll post some test .hdr images for you.... Here is the steps:
Step 1) Save the .hdr files somewhere on your computer where you can find them again.
Step 2) Create a basic scene... Add some primitives, color them flat white (the better to see the effects)
Step 3) Kill the sun and any or all lights.
Step 4) Enter the HDRI/IBL section of the Sky Lab. Click on "Use HDRI image" and locate where the file was stored in Step1.
Step 5) Set the following settings: (adjust later as needed)
Quality: 256 (about halfway on the slider)
Intensity: 5-15 (as needed)
HDRI Effect: 100 (percent)
Step 6) Render.
Step 7) Experiment....