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Raxx - that is probably it, because there are a few materials involved.

The texture issue i was talking about is very probably a tiling issue - aka there is no tiling, only a single instance is shown, and the edges of the texture seem to stretch out to the rest of the object. You're probably well aware of that though

Now I'm having trouble getting the shadows to work - probably a user error again though. We'll see!

BTW - love the 32 bit images , thanks


edit- I was right, as usually is the case with your work, the error is mostly with me haha. I had scanline and distant light, so I read your documentation again , changed it to raytrace and the shadows do work now!
See attachment, 36 samples is enough for smooth blur results

Nice, Raxx! The new additions seem to be working fine! IT almost is usable as a renderer.. maybe if shadows would work it could start to rival the internal Anim8or renderer.

A few questions about the progress:

- poly material; right now it seems only possible for an object to have one material applied to it: i tried to have polies on an object have a different material, but the whole object changed material. This is not really a priority item since you can use texture maps to define colors on different parts of a model - also if it is a completely different material, it usually is a different object as well. So just a note but no need to act on this.

- texture loading; maybe you can speed up the process by checking if the texture has already been converted, so that this conversion does not have to happen again if you render something twice (checking file name or something), thus increasing render times.

- 'smooth angles' - like they are called in Anim8or - seem to be set at 180 by default.


I'm sure youre well aware of all of this - your progress is very meticulous so far. Can't wait to see some 'advanced' features implemented!

Thanks Mills,

haha I think you might be correct! But a toenail is not really uh interesting to look at, so I guess I'll just have to leave it out than

You can use any program that can import .obj files (which is just about every 3d program out there) and use their renderer. This can be either paid (3ds Max, C4D, Zbrush, whatever), or free (mostly Blender).

If you're just looking for a 'renderer' without the program around it, have a look at this list of free standalone renderers, there should be some usable ones in there:
http://www.independentdeveloper.com/archive/2007/10/17/free_standalone_rendering_soft

Not much - just some security and sharing differences: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-za/windows/compare

It should run just fine on the regular Windows 8!

works good:

NVIDIA Geforce GT 610
Windows 8
latest Chrome browser

For uploading to youtube:
- render your animation at 1280x720 for 720p, 1920x1080 for 1080p HD
- to keep the quality render them out as a sequence of .bmp files instead of an .avi file
- download virtualdub for basic video editing/compressing
- use a x264 encoding codec to compress your video ( )
- upload to youtube
- do make sure the initial render output from Anim8or has enough AA as well.