United3dArtists

Welcome Roman! Glad you're here.

BTW, if you guys render the animation with YafaRay4tS, you're welcome to upload the animation to the Gallery there and link the thread. I've set the file upload size for 20MB.

This is good as it shows the basic process in modeling a car. Also it's nice to know that all of this can be done just as easily in trueSpace.

The boolean merge would also combine the geometry.

Nah you've pretty much covered it Robert. ;) To get the materials to show, you have to use the materials that came with YafaRay4ts. Also for caustic effects you'll need to use a photons setting of around 2,000,000. As in two million . lol, not a typo! :lol: Definitely check out the Yafaray4ts.org we...

Thanks Karthogen! Very cool to see the end result.

Haha, just remember everytime you render an image you are contributing to global warming by running your processor at 100% for hours on end...

-Jack <--- evil global warming denier

You can change the setting to make it behave like in 7.5, by switching to the advanced version of the Material Editor and checking the "Edit picked material directly" checkbox. To get to the advanced version, click and hold where it says "Default" and drag down to "Advanced&...

It's a difference between 7.5 and 7.6. The material system was changed some. By default trueSpace no longer edits the selected material directly, but rather stores it in a sort of "temporary" material buffer. So you can make changes to the sampled material without it updating the material ...

Looks pretty good, xetra

I see you toned down the color on the 7 decal. It may still be a bit too clean compared to the rest of the ship. It'd likely be even better if it as worked into the texture so that you could weather it to match the hull.