Twilight Render User Forum

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Hah! Awesome. Gives me the creeps just to look at it.

Shininess governs how sharp the reflection is. A smaller number is a more blurry reflection, a higher number is clearer (Mirror uses 10000 I think). IOR, index of refraction, governs how much light bends when entering a transparent material but also governs how much light reflects off the material b...

Is that machine Vista 64 or Windows 7 64? If so, then yes. We ran into a problem with the 64 bit versions and licensing that required anyone with those OS's to redo their license. Just send in a new request from that computer and we'll process it for you.

Things like missing textures, missing IES lights, missing background images can cause that message to appear. However, in most cases it should still render, with at worst a black material. I'm very surprised to see it not rendering... If you still have that file laying around, I'd like to see it.

Wow, great detail!

I think there must be something quirky with one or more of the render settings, like somehow a weird photon is causing a light "splash". The reason I think that is because it's perfectly round, and, like the pumpkin scene, always one sharp corners. X-Ray particles? (just kidding). Are you ...

Thanks. :) Primarily, the lighting is a single quad emitter outside the wall, shining through a grate and the fan. That's most of the lighting. I added an HDR but reduced the intensity to 0.05 just to add a little bit more light everywhere. The exposure is cranked way up, 2.0 (which for me is way up...

Nice! (Every time I try this it always looks like crap!)

I think the wet pavement is great! Maybe a little to reflective, yes, but very convincing otherwise.

As far as the black panels, have you tried a realistic glass template, color = black, alpha = about 95? I tried it and it looked kind of like what you described.