Snarlygribbly opened this issue on Dec 17, 2013 · 582 posts
bagginsbill posted Wed, 04 June 2014 at 1:00 PM
"5 raytrace bounces"
But you did not mention that you enabled raytracing. So based on years of guessing when somebody doesn't mention this it's why it isn't doing raytracing, I'm gonna say you forgot to enable raytracing.
Here I tested the Gem - Garnet Red preset. Works great!
You have to have raytracing enabled.
You have to have at least 3 bounces to make it look somewhat complete because light bounces around inside these gems a lot - 4 would be better. I used 6.
You have to have stuff for the rays to hit. A complete environment full of things that are not all one color.
If you want hot specular highlights, you either need some Poser lights or you need an outstandingly well-made HDR environment.
Renderosity forum reply notifications are wonky. If I read a follow-up in a thread, but I don't myself reply, then notifications no longer happen AT ALL on that thread. So if I seem to be ignoring a question, that's why. (Updated September 23, 2019)