The Ghost of Ghost Challenge: earlier replies archive

[zemmuonne]

Nice contest!
Suppose we can't use area specular highlight, or we do?

[FS]

Great contest again

Scott: Can I have question? Does the 3rd category include also the aircrafts?

[zemmuonne]

I can see your evil plot Pavel

[FS]

Originally Posted by zemmuonne

I can see your evil plot Pavel

Have I written something bad? I´m sorry if yes. It was just question as I rather do aircrafts instead of cars.

[zemmuonne]

I was just kidding Pavel! I know you got a fantastic airplane model ready for the contest...

[FS]

uff, thanks for explanation After reading your first post I get feeling that I´m a bad evil thinking person. I like people here and I don´t want to be unfair or aginst Brazil comunity.

[PiXeL_MoNKeY]

Originally Posted by zemmuonne

Nice contest!
Suppose we can't use area specular highlight, or we do?

If you can't use an Area Light then that doesn't really come into play does it.

-Eric

[cptvideo]

Oh sorry -- I guess I was skimming rather than reading -- Nope -- Area light is not allowed (Area shadow is), so area speculars aren't going to work anyway. Use a card and reflections to pull off the area highlight. If you need a softer highlight (area highlight with a feathered penumbra edge), use a bitmap on the card or just use glossy reflections on the object reflecting the card.

Remember, specular highlights are just "faked" reflections of your lightsources in the scene, so rather than fake them, put in bright cards so that you can see the highlights.

[cptvideo]

The Contest Entry Form is up now! https://splutterfish.com/sf/WebContent/ContestSubmissions

[FS]

Multi/sub-object material is allowed or disallowed?