Thea Render Revision 470

[Frankych]

Hi Ioannis,
try to find and remove that ugly blue/yellow ghost checker that still appears in the preview scenes if I don't replace the "index.txt" file

Cheers
Francois

[giannis]

I can't seem to be able to reproduce this on any mac. Is this fixed if you edit the index.txt file?

[Rombout]

I'm not sure if I like the new bumps.
The old ones were perfect for stills, very sharp and well defined like in hardly any other renderer.
Would it make sense to have a choice here?

The new one is actually much better in terms of evaluation. There is a difference in strength
(the new one is stronger), so one has to set strength now less and there are no "fireflies"
when it comes to unbiased rendering.

@Rombout: which one is the new bump?

@DallasRT: we will make an auto-conversion in next revision.

@ Giannis the left one

[Rombout]

nope when thea is opened it gives this error

"failure to reaad editor scene "direct/direct" - reverting to internal scene"

it all happened when i opened this scene by a guy here on the forum, cant recall which post it was

[notareal]

If you are creating new materials and used to give 100% bump before, then new bump will be similar when range 10-20% is used. Glossy trasparent types might be best in 5-10% range. Snow and similar sparkly materials might work best with a high bump.

[Frankych]

I can't seem to be able to reproduce this on any mac. Is this fixed if you edit the index.txt file?

Hi Ioannis,
yes, editing the index file and writing the scene names in alphabetical order fixes it.
No big deal, but I'm jumping on my seat every time I see that ugly checker appearing

Cheers
Francois

[Rombout]

its not really fixed when editing the index. Try and take direct light out of the index and the problem will shift to a other scene

[Frankych]

Hi Rombout,
I've never tried that, I'm just too happy to have the preview working properly when fixing the index file

Cheers
Francois

[Rombout]

how did you fixed it than? and what is you r order in scenes?

i got it fixed after deleting Displacement, Knot-Biased, Knot-Unbiased
this is my index in order.

cloth
cube
direct
displacement
ies
TKnotBiased
TKnotUnbiased
unbiased

Really lost it here!

[Frankych]

I just have the 4 default scenes, cloth-direct-ies-unbiased, that's it.
And my usual preview scene is the direct one.