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This is a yes or no question...

Thanks, John! Merry Christmas to you and Happy New Tinkering in 2021!

@Walter Mercado The most recent installer can also be found in the "Latest Info" thread https://forums.hash.com/topic/50045-v190m/

Steffen has it down to one new bug, i think. That... sounds complicated. That would be like a constraint that works in the model window, a place where constraints don't exist. That might get you the five bugs you're expecting. I think the one-time version is doable because it doesn't require any data to be monitored in real time after the plugin is done, it just drops new values into the bias settings.

My first thought was that it would be a plugin, but then every time you want to use it you have to select the two CPS, RMB>Plugins>Wizards... A top level menu command could allow a keyboard shortcut. That would be faster but our top-level menu is getting crowded. We already have control keys to restrict the movement of bias handles...CTRL locks out rotation, SHIFT allows magnitude adjustment on one side only. How about if holding ALT while moving a bias handle caused it to aim exactly to the next CP on the spline? And SHIFT-ALT would do that but leave the other end of the bias handle unaffected (as if the CP were peaked)? This would be fast because you don't even have to select two CPS.

It's like making a bug report at reports . hash . com We should think about how it would work and how it would be invoked before we ask for it. Is it a plugin? Is it a menu choice? is it something that happens with a control key combination? Is it a behavior you turn on or off?

He looks good enough to eat!

Today, we've all seen them on the internet but I wonder who Chuck Jones saw in 1950 that was his model for someone who had overeaten themselves into immobility. "Chow Hound" (1950)

That's great idea. That could probably be refined into a plug-in request.

That... sounds like "Snap Bias to Grid" is on. 😀

That sounds like "Snap to Grid" is on

This is weird. The Moon is in the URL...

If I make the refrigerator's specular highlight size very small and turn the photons way up, it turns out that the noise on the refrigerator is a reflection of details in the room beyond.

Global Ambiance Type (None/Global Color/Image Based Lighting) can only be set in the Chor Properties. Likewise for the subsidiary parameters that appear if the Global Color or IBL are chosen However, for that effect to get rendered you have to set Ambiance Occlusion ON in Rendering properties... In your Tools>Options>Rendering tab there is a choice of Use settings from This Dialog The Camera The one you choose is the one whose settings get used when you render, either onscreen with Q or Shift-Q, or when you do a regular Render to File Normally I just leave the choice on This Dialog but since we were using the render setting of "Fog", which is calculated from the camera, it made sense to put all of our render settings in the Camera. You will notice that the collection of things you can set in the Tools>Options>Rendering tab and in the Camera's Properties are the same. (If you have more than one camera in your chor, it is useful to be able to give each one different render settings) However, the two locations don't talk to each other so that is why the Use Setting from check boxes exist to set your preference. This preference is not recorded in your PRJ, A:M keeps it until you change it. Which ever location you choose to set your Render Options, that is where you will need to set Ambiance Occlusion ON to get the AO effect rendered.

thanks! that is like the default "0 inches" state of a slider that controls the width of thebathroom door in inches. If you drop that model into a chor you can use the X and Z size sliders to test dimensions of the room, then use "Door Width Inches" to test door sizes on top of that. (You may need to set your A:M units to "feet & inches" ) It was conceptually easier for me to make the slider if the model started at the zero state, but that did put two edges of the door right on top of each other.

Bump. Still looking for people to try this. It will take you two minutes.

Those look great, Roger! I presume that desk is authentic but it looks like I'd be whacking my shins on that lower shelf.

Here is a re-render of the animation with less noise. It's still there but I don't think it would get noticed on a first viewing. Now with 9-foot ceilings!

Another year, another great looking calendar!

@R Reynolds Here is a less noisy render of a similar frame. More Final Gathering Samples and much less "Jitter" (dithering). The refrigerator door with its higher specular is difficult to remedy. Maybe if it were textured with a bumpy surface like a real fridge door instead of a flat plane it would be less troublesome. Or maybe some refrigerator magnets and kindergarten art all over would fix it. Final Gathering: 500 samples, Jitter 5% 18 minutes 250 samples, Jitter 15% 12 minutes The original render was 100 samples, 100% Jitter 6 minutes

Hi Rien, did you find a satisfactory solution, or is it still taking too long?

Yes, It's a very odd look, like my screen is dirty. It is basically a dithering done to counter the "banding" artifacts of the process I've been experimenting with parameters to see the tradeoffs in time vs. quality and the noise pattern can be substantially reduced. Fortunately, with modern CPUs and RAM, radiosity renders are not impossibly long anymore. I think you would find it very interesting for the indoor scenes you are doing. Animation will be possible. Here is some very obvious banding when "jitter" is set to zero. Discrete reflections of the vase appear on the wall. The severity of that can be reduced by increasing jitter. 5%... 10%... 25%... 100%

Much like how we do textures in CG, vinyl "wood" flooring is really just an image applied to a surface. But carefully chosen texture names can go a long way to suggesting the allure of natural, organic substances Vinyl samples seen on Craigslist...

Does the video in my first post not show?