strange texture + lightning

[edonk]

Re: strange texture + lightning

Could you upload the model? Maybe it doesnt like the fact you smoothed the edges somehow. Or maybe the smoothed edges have ended up on a separate group/layer within the reed group? You could try exploding all those reed faces and regrouping? You may have tried all this already, just some ideas.
Just out of interest, I was going to buy the subdivide and smooth plugin, but I am sure on his website he said it was not compatible with Vray for some reason. Was that an older version of Vray?

[remon_v]

Re: strange texture + lightning

http://rapidshare.de/files/47942672/...-2009.skp.html

if u need the reed texture I can upload it aswell.... reed is called riet (Dutch) in my model. There's a free 'light' version of the smooth and subdivide (not sure). I use round corners for it not subdivide

[edonk]

Re: strange texture + lightning

ok Remon, I'll check it out now and see if I can get it to displace.

[edonk]

Re: strange texture + lightning

Remon, can you save it as SU6 I dont have 7 :-[

[remon_v]

Re: strange texture + lightning

http://rapidshare.de/files/47942731/asgvis.skp.html

[edonk]

Re: strange texture + lightning

Remon, it is weird, I cannot get displacement to work on your object. My guess is that it does not like the fact you have smoothed those edges. You can still displace a flat face in your scene with no problems, so my advice would be to redraw and not smooth those edges.
Maybe email this to the moderator on here for them to look at.

[remon_v]

Re: strange texture + lightning

thnx for trying.... I think I fixed it now, only the light cache takes so long to calculate while the settings are low :-\

[edonk]

Re: strange texture + lightning

Yes I got it working but only by grouping the larger faces within the group (if that makes sense), however I still didnt get the filleted faces to displace.
how did you get it fixed?

[remon_v]

Re: strange texture + lightning

not sure what the problem was... but I think at the top where the reed gets thinner that curved face was a "reversed face" .... so I remodelled it..... then it still didn't work and I went in the group and applied the reed texture to the front and back side of all faces. maybe that's why it's so slow with the light cache?

[edonk]

Re: strange texture + lightning

Aaah the reversed face probably explains it. I never checked the model for them.

[remon_v]

Re: strange texture + lightning

oke I got a new updated picture wich looks still really weird, The back reed-wall is the same as the one at the front (only a little transformed) and the one on the front doesn't have "round corners in 3D" applied to it (plugin). The first problem is that the one at the back doesn't displace... is this because of the round corners? The second problem is that the texture looks really strange after displacing. As u can see at the back reed-wall the texture isn't that special... I haven't subdivided the faces... maybe I should??. I hope anyone can help me with it. Thanls in advance

here's the picture:


cheers remon_v