I have Worms

[William Alexander]

I have 2 problems.

The first is worms or what look like worms on my sky dome. Using radiosity, excluding the dome. The dome is lit with an omni exclusively. The sky dome is a linear gradient map uvw 1 and a radius gradient map / mask uvw 2. Basic radiosity settings, this happens with linear & logrythm set at about 400.

 

 

The second is the rpc masking issue. It was rendering fine, then there it was. I also got missing uvw mapping notice with the first radiosity after re opening. Any Ideas as to why and what to aviod in the future. This scene has been tweeked and really worked over. Attempting a twilight or night time scene has been challenging, with radiosity and the multitude of settings.

 

Thanks for any help.

 

rgrds

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[Ernest Burden III]

Why do you need a skydome at all? Do you lan to animate this scene? Otherwise, why not just usea 'background' color and be done with it? If you need a gradient in some shots you can do it very quickly in Photoshop.

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

when i use a dome, i set all lights to not effect the dome, and then use self illumination to light it.

[William Alexander]

Ernest,

 

I'm using the sky dome attempting to capture the moonlight reflection in the windows. But with your suggestion I could use the moon in the sky dome and gradient background.

 

 

Crazy Homeless Guy,

 

Great simple soulution.

 

 

Thank you Gentleman

 

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