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change Brute Force to Lightcache in your secondary bounce

what program would you guys recommend to do the website for our architectural firm? thanks

There are certain HDR's which will give you more defined shadow lines but you have to modify them yourself. I usually add additional light source at low intensity to get the more defined shadow. Just make sure you align your light with the light source in your HDR. I have noticed just recently that desert and dawn backgrounds from Dosch will do the work just fine, I use them in exteriors which might be different to what you are using them for. Good luck!

Stanislavov, what technique did you use to lighten up the dark areas? tree on the right bothers me, other than that the image is beautiful!

Mike, I was always wondering what program do you use to achieve such a nice style of rendering? Would you mind sharing your secret? Thanks. Darius

Hey, Your comments are always welcomed. This is not my design, although I did the rendering. Programs used: AutoCad, Max8 (Vray render engine) and photoshop. Sincerely Darius

http://evermotion.org/index.php?unfold_exclusive=112&unfold=exclusive here is your little tutorial on Vray Sun and sky. I don't know if you are willing to go back to your original setup, but perhaps for the future reference....(?) Sincerely Darius

I have just finished building computer with 2 opterons (280), Tyan motherboard, 4 GB ECC memory. Originally, windows xp 64 would not recognize 4GB, however if you tweak your bios, it eventually will. F.Y.I., I had problem with ASUS K8N-DL where it would restart without any reasonable explonation. I returned this MB and replaced it with TYAN S2877 and it works fine (very stable). TYAN came with the latest BIOS version, so there was no need to flush it and upgrade it like I did with ASUS. In conclusion, please be aware that even after switching to windows 64 you still may want to modify your BIOS settings. Best of luck. Darius

Thanks Greg! Easy enough, I will let you know how it worked. Thanks again Darius

Xfrog allows to modify the geometry of the leaves. You just need to spend some time and explore the options with in xfrog. It' not as simple and straight forward as Onyxx trees but it's definiyely do-able. Good luck Darius

Unfortunatelly, it isn't. I tried to run the memtest but I couldn't. I must admitt, I couldn't quiet understand the directions. Neither was I succesful running the pcv2006 program which gave me error messeges on both of my computers. I guess one more option for me is taking out all of the memory sticks leaving only one and see if the problem re-occurs with only one running. The power supply which I am currently using is "520Watt ATX by Master Power" Other than that, I tried to install Autocad last night and just as it was finishing installing it restarted and the Autocad instalation was lost. I went to bios to check the temp of MB and CPU's and it all was btwn 45-49 degrees. Nothing is easy as it seems.... Cheers Darius

Both of you Gents, thank you greatly for your quick responces! Hey, I was thinking, perhaps switching to Windows 64 would not be a bad idea (to take advantage of all the memory). I know that Microsoft gives a free 90 day trial download of windows. That brings another question, do you install Windows 64bits in the same matter as Windows 32bits? Or perhaps there are some different procedures? Again, your help is greatly appreciated Sincerely Darius One more thing, The cables which I am using came with the mother board (original from asus) It even says which one goes to where. Overheating, could be, although I have the panels taken off so there is enough air circulation and I checked BIOS it states temp for CPU's and MB between 40-50 C degrees. Also, this confuse the heck out of me! In order to start the machine I have to press the power button twice-is this normal? Anyways, I should be receiving new case tomorrow so hopefuly that could be fixed, unless it is the mother board that controls it (?????) Darius

Has anyone experienced problems with these motherboards? I have just put together rendering machine using those components (see above) and it's causing me a headache. I have also installed windows xp professional 32bits (no Service Packs for now), I have also updated the bios to v.1007. I have also installed 4GB of ECC registered RAM memory. The computer for most part runs OK, however for no apparent reason it crashes and restarts during simple operation such as copying files from CD. I have only briefly tested it to do a rendering and it did fine but otherwise it's terrible. Sometimes it even restarts again before getting to the point where everything is loaded. I have power supply for 520 Watts, considering there is only CD ROM and floppy installed, is that enough power for two dual core processors? Could it be the windows, perhaps I should switch to xp 64bit version? Is it normal that computer only displays 3GB where I have installed 4GB? Would it be more stable if I run it only on 2GB for Windows xp professional 32bits? Could it be the dysfunctional mother board? Like I stated previously, I have updated the bios, is there any other update which I could perform to make this computer more stable? (chip-set) What's the recommended temperature those two should be running on? Sorry for all of those questions, This is a first server which I have put together and I am learning as I proceed. Thanks in advance. Darius I should also mention that I encounter same problem for SATA hardrive as well as the IDE regular connected hardrives. Is it better to run operating system on SATA drive comparing to IDE drive?

BUSTED!!!!!!! Is that release out yet?

TJ Yes, it is in deed. My boss said one time, he would rather go out of bussiness rather than outsource jobs. I hope he meant it. Unfortunately, you can't stop it. Sincerely, Darius