> Quote - Paolo, I have found some of the defaults to give a lot of problems, with some of the glass items set to matte but with an alpha/translucency of 0.15 or so, as well as high specularity / glossyness... you definatly made this a challange!

It was not intentional, the glass materials in modo got exported, as usual, with the alpha set to simulate transparency. I fixed than. I also fixed the tube holder. There is a new archivem with exactly the same name and same obj names but with a few things fixed. I also notedf that the glass globe behind the tube holder was intersecting the holder so I moved it a bit.

Here is the link (same as before):

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3701566/3DRenderChallenge/MadScience.zip

And here is a quick and dirty test of the glass and tube holder. I only change the materials for the holder, the tubes and the liquids inside, it's a 5-minute setup just to test that everything works as expected, lot of noise still there but it does show the fixes.

Cheers.

Paolo

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