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Old 5th July 2007, 02:04 PM   #1
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I'm just doing a basic wine glass type thing, from reading the manual. Then trying to add a glass material to it.

Here's what I ended up with

I don't know why its showing up so small, I had to scale it down to 640x480, so it should be bigger than that.

Maybe its just because it doesn't have a background, is there a way to render a background behind it?

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Old 5th July 2007, 04:31 PM   #2
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What do you use to render it with?
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Old 5th July 2007, 05:11 PM   #3
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I'm using pov-ray
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Old 5th July 2007, 11:18 PM   #4
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Ok, I dont use pov-ray, but maybe someone else using it know what you need to do.
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Old 6th July 2007, 12:17 AM   #5
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what do you use to render? I'm still new, so I don't have a bias towards any particular program yet.

I'm basically shopping around to find what I want to use.

I love your textured scenes of the ships flying
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Old 6th July 2007, 09:39 AM   #6
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I use Bryce5.5 or Carrara. Those threads have links to the free version of Bryce and a very nice render engine called Kerkhytea

http://www.inivis.com/forum/showthre...9315#post19315
http://www.inivis.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4296
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Old 6th July 2007, 12:22 PM   #7
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which would you say is a better renderer, and why?

so how would it be possible to render the wine glass on say a jpeg, and have it be part of the background, say sitting on a desk or something?

I know when you render with pov-ray, it gives it a background color, so I tried to use gimp, but not sure how I can get rid of the background color and have it use the background on the picture.

I figured it would be something the renderer would have to do. which calls in another problem, positioning the glass in a certain spot on the picture.

sorry for all my newb questions, wish i could find a book on this type of thing.
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Old 6th July 2007, 01:37 PM   #8
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Here is a screengrab from Bryce 5.5. Depending on how much mony you will use, I would say take Bryce or Kerkythea. Carrara render, and are a better prog than Bryce, but it costs mony. Bryce and Kerky are free

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Old 6th July 2007, 02:20 PM   #9
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that is neat. is that just a background picture or textures?

why don't you use them for the modeling aspect as well?
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Old 7th July 2007, 04:16 AM   #10
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That background is just one of many preset skyes in Bryce. You have many to choose from. For the models you sometimes want a plain background like grey to focus on the model and dont get unwanted reflections
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