Kixum opened this issue on Nov 02, 2004 ยท 13 posts
Kixum posted Tue, 02 November 2004 at 2:26 PM
-Kix
GWeb posted Tue, 02 November 2004 at 2:30 PM
Nice!! Can't wait to get my copy!!
Vidar posted Tue, 02 November 2004 at 4:39 PM
oh my,i cant wait any longer.:)
InfoCentral posted Wed, 03 November 2004 at 9:03 AM
Very nice indeed!
GWeb posted Wed, 03 November 2004 at 10:17 AM
InfoCentral What side are you on? XSI or Carrara?
InfoCentral posted Wed, 03 November 2004 at 1:49 PM
Like I said in the first message. I own Carrara. I know very little about XSI; just what I have been reading in the 3d magazines. The question was never Carrara vs. XSI, it was "is now the time to buy?"
Message edited on: 11/03/2004 13:52
Vidar posted Wed, 03 November 2004 at 2:21 PM
lets put an end to =carrara VS. xsi=,this was another thread,this here is about soft reflection in carrara studio 4 pro.i think we are old enough and not in the kindergarten.guys,lets have fun.:)
Hoofdcommissaris posted Thu, 04 November 2004 at 7:38 AM
Maybe GWeb's comment actually was a soft reflection on the past? The render is beautiful! I still haven't heard anything about actually receiving the software I ordered the day it was possible :-}
falconperigot posted Thu, 04 November 2004 at 10:47 AM
In the meantime Hoof, blurry reflections are possible in C3. All you do is add a 'blur' effect to your mirror object. You can control the ammount with the radius slider. It works very nicely.
Vidar posted Thu, 04 November 2004 at 2:46 PM
i used a plugin from zmorphics for blurry refelection,together with carrara 2 and 3,now i can sell it.:)
Antycon posted Thu, 04 November 2004 at 3:20 PM
The reflection looks nice indeed, but are blurred reflection really a pro feature? It is something you can find in several old "non pro" soft, don't it?
petshoo posted Thu, 04 November 2004 at 4:16 PM
Yes, I'm kind of amazed this is clasified as a Pro only feature too. I mean, blurry reflections have been in VUE forever. As well as blurry transparencies, btw - beautifully implemented as well, if I may add. I think eovia should really have included this in the standard C4.
rendererer posted Fri, 05 November 2004 at 5:27 AM
I agree. It's odd that they relegated this one feature to Pro. And it's implemented oddly, as an effect you apply to an object, rather than just a parameter within the texture. That's not a big deal, although I guess it does mean that if you have 30 objects with the blurry texture on them you have to apply the effect 30 times (or can you apply an effect to multiple objects now? I don't have C4 in front of me so I can't check). But the fact is, this was a big feature for me, and part of the reason I bit the bullet and went for Pro. Amapi was the main reason I went for it, though.