Quote - Congratulations John, it's a great render.

No no no... Its just a WIP.

This subject came up in my gaming forums so I came up with this render;

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=2448636

Kobold Tatzlwyrm Rider

Quote - UHF, I think the white specs will go if you leave it going a little while longer, normally when I get result like that I leave it running over night. I must ask, is there a light like that in real life ?

That particular render had been run overnight.

I did read up a bit on mirrors, and I tried going with a grey (84,84,84).  That cleaned up quite a bit, but by no means all of it.  I also greyed the light on most of the other surfaces, 220,220,220.  I reduced specularity to 0 on all surfaces that seemed to sparkle.  That seemed to help a bit.  Lastly I made sure there were no (unnaturally perfect) right angles.

This cleaned things up a bit, but I'm far from perfect.  I'm thinking that I still have far too much spread between light to dark.  Part of the issue there is that the sides that are not lit, are also hard to light. So I'll play with that later this evening...

As for your Question... I recall lots of that stuff in the 70's.

In this case, the bulb is indeed inside the lamp, and its exterior material is translucent matt.  Here's the set I started with;

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/pmc-poor-mans-corner-/94854/

Quote - genesis takes the v4/m4 textures but there bits dont

you can get them at daz in the pro bundles

or go to renderotica and get other ones.

also since genesis has autofit, you can also use the v4/v5 bits props.

Poison did get m4 working with Genesis.

This set up has many light sources.  Two meshes indoors, and a sun outside.  For the most part I adjusted the light to be the film is ISO 200, 1/60, 5.6 fstops.  I generally start with the film settings, then adjust the light to suit.  (That gets rid of most issues I have with sparkles.)

This scene is rendering just fine, but I get excessive sparkles in the mirror.  I don't understand why its happening, let alone how to clean it up.

Do I need to somehow light it from the other side?  Can anyone help?

Quote - Well, that bundle will never happen in my budget!  Guess I'll learn to live without 'em.  Thanks for the responses folks, I truly appreciate it.

I thought that I read somewhere "official" that one of the bonuses of Genesis was that it would take M4V4 skins with no problems...found out that was wrong as well.

Lali Bits at Renderotica are better...

And M5 is not M4 skin compatible....  For that, you have to look to Poison at Renderotica.

Quote - Anybody got this?

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/sav-alpha-scalp/99012/

It doesn't seem to play nice in Reality.

I was curious about that myself.  For 3.50 I bet its OK.    Likely however, it is using some sort of magic shader and those never play well with Reality.

Quote - Help! Reality often just shuts down with win 8 any way around that?

Uninstall Windows 8?   :-)

Quote - > Quote - > Quote - So's my cat....

I used to have a hairless cat named... Fluffy.

Or Doc's cat Mr bigglesworth.. Hope all is well with him...
Correction my post above I HAVE this guy (as opposed to had he's still around..:)

Fluffy looked exactly like that.  (He died from a brain tumor... I still miss him.)

Quote - > Quote - Have a baby she said.  Its easy she said.  :-) Mine's a biter...

LMAO! (<- from someone with no rugrats)

You'll get your turn... Careful when you change diapers.  There's nothing quite like the poo racing stripe across carpet.  (Which is fortunate.  Because most parents are standing there when it happens...) And there's worse...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2sv34rRwgg

Quote - So's my cat....

I used to have a hairless cat named... Fluffy.

Quote - The baby has been sucking up all my free time for months. On the bad days, she is like a little black hole that you watch your life disappear into, then come out in yellow nuggets resembling fool's gold.  The good days, when she's not trying to indirectly kill me, are a blast though. Could be the ease of making a small version of yourself laugh...

Have a baby she said.  Its easy she said.  :-) Mine's a biter...

Paolo,

Will Reality 3 have the ability to reverse which side of a plane I'm using?  Sometimes I've tried to convert an objet to light, only to realize that the plane is facing the wrong way.  The issue is that that object's designer may not have been aware of the Lux's requirements.

Also, I've had a terrible time with displacement maps, and in working on this render;

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=2435754

It became appearent to me that the maps were 'inverse'.  Blood on the surface of the model seemed to go in.  I'd love to be able to either reverse a displacement map's direction or at least enter different possitive or negative values for the limits.

Please and thanks...

Quote - 5 days! I bought this monster to cut back on render times LOL at least they are not that long now

Some renders are a b**ch... some are not.  Some of my longer renders have been in the million poly range...

I'm feeling the love... I hit #15 on the art charts. 

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/artchart.php

Right behind Elianeck...

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/browse.php?user_id=492465