Author Archives: Mark

Exterior Scene

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Mark

After a long long absence from working on new scenes, modelling and rendering. (at least in updating the blog kind of way) Nearly all my scenes are internal shots, designed for interior lighting or environment maps. Referencing my ‘The First … Continue reading →

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PC upgrades

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Mark

As anyone would understand, the more complex a scene, the more textures it uses etc the bigger the memory footprint. I mainly do my modelling and rendering between a MacBook Pro, and a Desktop PC using either Windows XP or … Continue reading →

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LuxRender 0.7.1

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Mark

Lux 0.7.1 is just around the corner, It was suggested it would be out on Sunday (4/10/10) but it hasn’t surfaced yet. Word from the developers sounds like its delayed for last moment bugfixes. That said, thanks to the now … Continue reading →

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LuxRender 0.8-dev – Velvet and Surface asperity

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Mark

Since LuxRender 0.7 came out a while back, there has been a steady push into the next instalment of Lux. While we are due a bugfix release 0.7.1, which looks just around the corner, I am going to check out … Continue reading →

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Winestein – Update

Posted on September 13, 2010 by Mark

After getting back some great comments on the LuxRender Forums I decided to make a few changes. 1)The wine looks too dark, something just doesn’t look right with it. 2)Add a wine bottle. I set about trying to get some … Continue reading →

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Is it a glass for wine or beer?

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Mark

Well after searching for a template for a glass coffee/tea mug to try out something (frosted glass exterior and normal interior) I stumbled upon a winestein My instant thought was that it would be interesting to model it, since it … Continue reading →

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SLG 1.6beta3dev – More experiments with old scenes

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Mark

After fixing a few problems with compiling SLG on my mac, I got around to testing out this little (but fairly awesome) app some more. I turned to an old scene that I made just for the sake of trying … Continue reading →

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Small plays with SLG

Posted on July 26, 2010 by Mark

After a long break due to various events, I have started toying around with SmallLuxGPU again. This time recreating one of my simpler scenes. In this case it is the recently reworked desktop. Dade’s addition of Stochastic Progressive Photon Mapping … Continue reading →

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LuxRender 0.7

Posted on July 13, 2010 by Mark

So after a long wait finally the full version of LuxRender 0.7 is available to play with and use. To mark this moment I revisited an old scene I made for a desktop and fixed a few problems with the … Continue reading →

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Tea for Two Part 2

Posted on June 19, 2010 by Mark

After fixing many of the issues with the scene this is the result. Nicer looking tea, spoons without the weird spots and a milk and sugar pot. Spout is a little bit reduced too. Quite happy with how this has … Continue reading →

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