Raytrace Material

[BigNasty]

and here's what I have so far...... nothing is textured except the back wall and the "rice paper" parts of the Wall thing and the lamp....

[Chris]

you might want to clarify this with your tutor a bit, The only reason I could think of for using the raytrace material on this is so that you can use the 'transluscency' function of the raytrace material. Thats fair enough & should work fine, but only with lights. You would just put a spotlight behind it, & play with the hotspot & falloff, then adjust the transluscency settings till youve got it right. But if he's saying it should be done without lights - you are going to have to use luminosity on the raytrace material. Except there is no point, you could equally do it with the self illumination slot of a standard material & have it render twice as fast... :shrug:

[BigNasty]

Originally posted by Chris
Except there is no point, you could equally do it with the self illumination slot of a standard material & have it render twice as fast... :shrug:

That is what I was thinking........ simple self illumination, slight transparency, and a light behind it should have been ok... but oh well... I'll try out your suggestions... THANKS

[BigNasty]

Here's what I came up with.... :hmm:

[Marcel]

Translucency in the raytrace material sucks, it doesn't do what it should do (or at least, what I expect it to do :) ).

What you could try is putting a 'thin wall refraction' in the refraction slot. This is a map especially for of objects that are not very curved (like the lens of a spectacle for example). The advantage of using this kind of map is that you can easily blur the refractions (play with the blur and the blur offset values)

Now place a sphere (along with a omni) in the paper light with a high intensity material (place white gradient in the self illumination map and set output->rgb level to 5). I think the blurred refraction would make it look like rice paper.
(Also, adjust the falloff on the omni so it has the effect as in the photo)


Good luck!

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