ddruckenmiller opened this issue on Apr 09, 2004 ยท 23 posts
ddruckenmiller posted Fri, 09 April 2004 at 12:12 AM
Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=645164&Start=1&Sectionid=2&filter_genre_id=0&WhatsNe
Okay lets kick this to the curb. The link is to Theres something fishy going on here in my gallery, which I threw up with normal AA until I can get a premium render to finish. The concept was a National Geographic Explorer / Dr. Joseph Ballard expedition in your fish tank. The challenge was trying to sell the transition from cheap plastic plants and fluorescent aquarium lighting in the foreground to a sea wall drop-off complete with thermo cline in the space of about eighteen virtual inches. All complicated of course, by the fact that water is a much denser transmission medium than air. (There are no caustics because Ive never seen caustics in fish tanks, or the last time I dove the wall in Montego Bay.) What Im hoping to get is help with the lighting, both native and in post for both the environmentals and for the sub. Cuz what I ended up with was a royal pain and Im not exactly in love with it anyway. Ive got every flavor of positive and negative radial known to man strewn about, a handful of spots, and a honking big parallel light cube going on and I figure theres just got to be a better way. So please, if you are one of the lighting Gods, take a look through the wire frame and settings that follow and let me know how youd have approached it. Excruciating detail and painful redundance will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.