I'll be interested to see your results! Probably do a bit of stuffing around with raytrace materials.

I dont use it at all, I am in love with Vray.

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Same here..

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*double post*

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Yeah, thats the thing... everyone seems to go for Vray... I wanna see what I can get from the Scanline! Will definitely play around!!! Light tracer is gonna be my friend!!! Hehe

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I'm sure you could get some pretty good results, it's just that it would take longer than it would with vray or brazil etc. It would be interesting to see what you could do.

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Heh! Its all gonna start with some sweeet material setups! Busy playing, tweaking and digging up any info I can on them! Hehe!

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I had always done Scanline rendering, but after playing with VRay material, I'm really starting to like it... It's taken me a while to get used to it.

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You jumped from Scanline to VRay?? what happened to the intermediate Mental Ray?? hehe

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I skipped mental ray too, and scanline haha... jamie pretty much taught me vray straight off.

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It is tempting to do that. but you can't beat scanline for pure speed when your rendering stuff without GI. I just tried rendering 100 frames of black and compared the speed difference.

scanline got 9 seconds.

vray 3 minutes 20 seconds.

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Wow, thats a massive difference. What happens to your vray materials though?

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nah that test was literally just black. an empty scene.
I tried a sphere on a plane with a standard material.
scanline and light tracer with default settings still beat vray
on low with just an irradiance map and the skylight colour.
Its not very empirical. Vray comes into its own when you start doing complex scenes and animations. I don't think you can beat a cached irradiance map and light cache for a quick buzz free Gi animation.

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Hehe! Thankfully being in the gaming industry I have not yet been exposed to the other renderers available!!! I will look at Vray one day, since everyone talks about it!!! Must be good!!!, hehe!!

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It is good. Not very useful when it comes to games though.

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Anyone have any tuts or links to tuts for Advanced Materials (within the realms of Scanline?) Things like

- Multi-layered?
- Having Multiple Speculars?
- etc etc

Anything would be of interest!!

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No tutorials as such, but for mulitlayered materials have you tried the blend material or composite material? Do you mean multiple speculars at once, or changing speculars? For multiple speculars at once you could try a mix map. To change them over time... hmm, I'm sure it could be done, maybe a composite material and you could animate the mixing amount.

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You should look into Negative IOR. That would be trippy.

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Definitely gonna look into everything! Will make post some WIPS in the WIP thread!!!

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If you mean multi layering as in DX/OGL multi layering you can do this with a mix map.

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Speaking of shaders etc! Has anyone checked out the MapLayers Plugin?
[Link to www.vg2max.spb.ru]

It sounds like it has some pretty awesome potential!!

Also, my work on scanline renders has taken a slight pause, coz I am now playing with viewport shaders... slightly more exciting right now

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Looks like a good plugin. Being able to use various screening modes wold come in handy.

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