Twilight Render User Forum

Oh, sorry, yes, for installing in Kerkythea, just copy the unzipped folder from the Twilight Materials folder into the Kerkythea Program's Libraries folder... or do as Massimo suggests above, change extension from .zip to .mat.zip to install into Kerkythea.

thanks pdwyer and rich! I just updated the image in the post above... it's a bit sharper now. When I mentioned I was adding depth in postpro, I should have said it was not a depth of field, but more just a boost in contrast in certain places to make the space feel "deeper". I will use DOF ...

Here's a great series of examples of the importance/power in Post Pro in Photography.
These same techniques can be applied and achieve great artistic results in Twilight.

looks good to me.

watch carefully the video here.

a little higher res now, with more subtle post-pro depth and volumetrics.
right-click view image for full resolution.

Components are copied as many times as they repeat. :) sometimes 2x, sometimes 1700x Here's a progress shot with some post pro vignette, glow/volumetrics/depth. (probably a little too much post pro. :? ) Changed more lighting here, added a couple lights on wall behind camera to fill foreground stair...

progress... changed some lights, materials

for some reason the alpha channel clips when loaded into the emitter channel of the material definition. so what you would need to do is open the material in the advanced material editor of Kerkythea (it's free) and add the same image into the refraction channel, setting the weight of the channel to...

Thanks for the comments, always good to hear feedback. ;) Here's another progress shot... changed view angle, added many lights, and developed materials further. I have updated the original post with more accurate number for processing time of entire scene. In Twilight architecture, bones, and all t...