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Even Boris is looking good these days.

Here is another modern render of one of my old Animation Showdown animations. I added a school gymnasium set and rendered with radiosity. A birdseye view of the chor looks like this. The set is a completely enclosed box with two kleig lights in the ceiling... A conventional render with those two lights gets this... That is very severe. If I were going to use conventional lighting I would need add a number of fill lights in strategic places. Here is a radiosity render. The shadow areas are no longer pitch black and there is visible detail even where the lights do not directly shine. Overall, however, it is too dark for my taste. Increasing the Intensity of the lights so that the charcters were well illuminated caused teh brightest spots on the floor to become overbright and clip. Instead I applied a gamma correction to the radiosity render. I''m liking this much better... Unfortunately, the shadowing that was indistinct in the raw render is now ever weaker. To give that some more bite i rendered a pass with ScreenSpace Ambient Occlusion (SSAO)... ... and composited that by "multiplying" it with the Radiosity. I did that in After Effects but an A:M "composite Project" can do the same operation. This PNG alternates "before" and "after"... SSAO has no anti-aliasing so I had to render those at 3x3 times the normal resolution to make smooth versions suitable for compositing. When A:M introduced Radiosity our computers weren't ready for it. Each render took so long that animation was unthinkable. But now with a modern CPU and NetRender it is within reach. My 640x480 test renders for this scene took only about 3 minutes per frame. After i got my settings decided and cranked up the quality, the full-frame final renders took only about 20 minutes each. Get started with Radiosity with Yves Poissant's Cornell Box Tutorial Learn more at Yves Poissant's Radiosity/Photon Mapping Pages

they were happy to perform again

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Thanks, David! I'm finding out now that this must be a 19.5 problem. If I go render in v19.0 the frames come out properly. I should have thought of this before since i already had a 19.5 problem with the regular color render of this scene.

Have you tried making a new Chor? I've had a few Chors get corrupted somehow...once I recreated them, things straightened out. Also doing a reset has helped occasionally. Your SSAO settings could also be the culprit. These have been my go-to settings lately. Hope something in there helps.

Here's a birdseye view of the chor. The alien in the camera view is highlighted, the offscreen aliens are to the right of the camera. But now I've gone through deleting each alien one-by-one, re-rendering that frame and the gash is still there...

Starting with the full chor plus a few additions, the gash is till there... But if I delete all the aliens, (there are about 9 offscreen to the right) the gash is gone, with a new, smaller scratch on the front-most cushion...

I just tried making a stripped-down version with only the brick wall... but that didn't produce the gash when I rendered. So there must be some point between all-the-of-other-objects and none-of-the-other-objects that creates the problem. I'll have to investigate further and report back. Thanks, none-the-less, David!

Can you upload a sample project where this happens, Robert?

Strange blotches appear on occasional random frames of an SSAO render... If I render the same frame number plus 0.01 the mark will not appear...

Hi, Edward, I think you have to do it in the original material, rather than in the model. Just to be safe, delete the keyframe you have in the model.

Sample PRJ. This should be everything. BLACKruff.mat Moustache.mat Moustache.prj

Can you post a sample PRJ that has that mustache model in it

Just enter a thickness the book says. Did that and nothing shows up on the thickness timeline as in the book. Trying to get the hair emitter to taper the thickness over the length of the hair to a point. What am I doing wrong (again)???? Also I must admit that I still don't know HOW to ask a question-start a topic? Could use some advice on that also. Any help appreciated.

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I put a bump map on this model to simulate some wrinkles on the top, but although both top patches have their normals facing out, one patch shows the inverse bump result of the other... Just to try it, I did RMB>Renumber CPs... That fixed it! Don't know why, don't know how, but that did fix it.

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project file oolldd1.prj

We can do that! Now with more leg... KiltWalk18b.mp4

so I have to say... that's not a kilt... it's a skirt. I true kilt is about 2 fingers ABOVE the knee.. Somewhere I had an Incredible Hulk model wearing a kilt and tossing a caber.. sadly lost to the great hard drive crash of '01!

this is screenn grab when I was looking for a model on an AM area ob my computer

That's how they do Southpark!

Heh that turned out pretty well with the tartan texture.