Forum: Carrara


Subject: Noobie lighting question.

drawbridgep opened this issue on Jan 02, 2006 ยท 10 posts


drawbridgep posted Mon, 02 January 2006 at 11:47 AM

I'm evaluating the carrara demo and I like it. But I don't want to read the manual, so I'm asking you guys.

I'm getting "blotchy" renders. This one has one light source. If you need more details of current settings (pretty much default) I can provide them. Can someone give me a hint on why it's blotchy?

Thanks
Phil

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Kixum posted Mon, 02 January 2006 at 12:04 PM

Chances are you need to turn up the settings for the indirect lighting in the render room. There are several switches that you can flip to change the results but I would start by setting the quality higher than the default and also decreasing the pixel accuracy. You will have to pay for it in render time but you can get the results to be a lot better than what you have here. You can find the settings I'm describing when you click on the icon at the top which takes you to the room where you render the final images (icon all the way to the right up where the wrench, film strip, paint brush etc are). There will be a tray (panel) on the right which will have the render settings in it. -Kix

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drawbridgep posted Mon, 02 January 2006 at 12:38 PM

thanks very much. I'll try that and get back to you.

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falconperigot posted Mon, 02 January 2006 at 1:23 PM

Quote: "I don't want to read the manual..." Why not?


GWeb posted Mon, 02 January 2006 at 1:56 PM

I dont read manuals but I like to push buttons. :0)


ewinemiller posted Mon, 02 January 2006 at 2:22 PM

You know what, with this one, I'm with GWeb. The only thing I read the manual for is power tools because I can lose a body part. Everything else is fun exploration!

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Eric Winemiller
Digital Carvers Guild
Carrara plug-ins

Eric Winemiller
Digital Carvers Guild
Carrara and LightWave plug-ins


Sans2012 posted Mon, 02 January 2006 at 4:41 PM

Besides the manual being 5000 pages long (or abouts). I think I managed to get up to page 500 hundred and something and lost steam:)

I never intended to make art.


falconperigot posted Mon, 02 January 2006 at 4:42 PM

I agree, really. I'm a leap-in-and-push-buttons guy myself. It's just I read Phil's post as though he couldn't be bothered to find out. Those buttons aren't that hard to find.


ren_mem posted Mon, 02 January 2006 at 6:00 PM

LOL...sorry to say...I like to push buttons(if I know it's safe), but I am a definite manual reader. One this big I mostly just skip around for what I want.

No need to think outside the box....
    Just make it invisible.


ShawnDriscoll posted Mon, 02 January 2006 at 11:17 PM

Turn off Interpolation to remove the ashes.

www.youtube.com/user/ShawnDriscollCG