Decided to tinker with video I recorded on vacation new 3rd try below

[johnl3d]

vactest.mov

 

 

recorded some lights reflected in water and used them for this

 

not sure where the black dots came from will have to check and see since all items were white and reflective and no shadows was set

 

 

sorry about the size

[robcat2075]

Cool!

 

 

not sure where the black dots came from

 

My first guess is that reflection levels need to be higher.

[johnl3d]

Checked and could not find source of black surfaces so trying another route for now

 

vactest2.mov

 

eliminated bouncing spheres and changed reflections in sphere by peaking all the patches and got this

 

 

 

 

 

[johnl3d]

Tried another approach

 

 

vactest1.mov

 

 

 

[robcat2075]

That movie has ony one frame?

[johnl3d]

oops will have to check when on that computer..not sure what happen

 

Decided to post file I was playing with taken from ship in Alaska out of window at water reflecting lights

 

 

 

Use it as you as you please

alaska.MP4

[johnl3d]

since the animation file seems to hold some interest here's another tinkering attempt using it

 

uses animation to randomly displace while coloring the sphere

 

vactest3.mov

 

 

vactest3.zip

 

 

the project seems to lose the rotation of the color portion when saved ..just have to reset before rendering you can see this at the end of this version

[robcat2075]

oops will have to check when on that computer..not sure what happen

 

Decided to post file I was playing with taken from ship in Alaska out of window at water reflecting lights

 

M4H05678.MP4

 

Use it as you as you please

 

429 downloads? Is that right?

[johnl3d]

Was wondering also just noticed that tonight