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Just use the VRAY material and then tick affect shadows. It´s also better to use vray shadows in your lights. Cheers:)

Hello Travis. Maybe you want to try my way. This is what i normally would do: Just do the animation without the trees and save it, then delete everything and just leave the ground objects. Change its material to a matte/shadow material and tick receive shadows and affect alpha. Next get your saved animation and use it as the environment background, unhide trees and render. Your background animation will get the trees and its shadows printed in. Sorry for bad English. Cheers Tony

Come on... don't post real pictures. It looks great. Is that Vray? Show us some wires, pleeeeaaaaaseee. Great job Cheers

Go for Quicktime .mov's... Great quality and lots of options of compression. Must install latest quicktime player first. Tony Rebelo

error - no picture shows up...?!?

Hi What video editing card do you have ( i.e. Pinnacle, matrox, etc...)? Or do you only use Premiere pro and software render. Tony

Hi Good job, but you better check the dimensions of objects. Barcelona chair and ottoman seems too big.

Hi Normally VCD is made with a more universal codec, and that is mpeg 1. Check your premiere for a Mpeg exporter. if you can´t find one check the web for some free versions. Why Mpeg1? good quality over compression and easy distribution because all computers regardless of the video codecs they have installed can read MPEG1 and that´s what we want with VCD. Sizes must be 4:3 320x240 or 640x480.

I´ve been trying out Mental Ray and Vray since I normally always use Radiosity. When I first tryed Vray Free I was astonished with how ease it was to get professional results quickly. I can say that i can do exteriors real well with it, but when it comes to interiors it´s a all diferent ball game. I can´t seem to iluminate interiors through windows with a sun light. everything is black or very close to it. What kind of material and/or shader should i use for glass, light shadows with/ without raytrace shadows or Vray Shadows...etc... The Vray manual doesn´t focus on this matter. To sum it up what should i do to iluminate a interior true a glass window. Please bare in mind that I´m a Vray newbie but loving it. Maybe i can make my boss´s mind on to buy some licences for advanced. Thank you all in advance Tony

You can use quicktime for alpha chanel transparency. Just "save as" your animation as .mov, and in compression settings choose "Animation", and in depth choose "millions of colors+". The "+" is the alpha chanel informação. For quality choose always "medium" or "best". It work´s for me all the time. For higher precision and control use .tga file sequences Like Chad says. Hope it was helpfull. Cheers... Tony.

Hello all... I´m using Viz 4 radiosity so what´s the best way to eliminate this motled effect on low light walls and objects, without compromising rendering speed to much. From the following what´s the parameter that takes care of this matter. Solution quality - 75% Refine iterations( all obj.) - 3 Filtering - 1 ( don´t like to use this because it reduces contraste) Meshing - 9" Render direct Ilumination - Regather 22 - Pixels 15 Thanks a lot

Thanks guys... I totally forgot to check out the luminaires buiders websites. I found what i needed Cheers Tony

Hello guys. I´ve been wondering. Since I have turned into Viz 4 I´m missing the old Luminaires library from my lightscape R3. Been trying to convert them to a max file with no result. Does anybody know where i can find such luminaires compatible with Viz, or maybe new ones? Just the geometry would be fine. Thanks in advance. Tony