Odd pattern with anistropic shader...

[PaulS2]

Does this mean you have jettisoned Brazil? (The Brazil stuff looks very good) How does EI shape up for speed in the Radiosity and GI stakes? (I haven’t tried any of that stuff yet and its a fair way down the line for me) I’m looking at learning more about advanced Rhino stuff- very boring but essential. I’ve just bought the dvGarage version of EIM to tesselate acis files from Rhino- like you say its a pity EIM had to be abandoned.

Martin K

I use Max and Brazil time to time but in much, much lessening frequency. It’s a great combination but I usually get called to do high res work - not something Max likes at all. At times a client decides to bump up the res in a project to poster size part-way through - this happened once when I started a project in Max and had to switch after some work there as it couldn’t handle the new revised sizing. Now, just to be safe I do it in EI and over the last year had 4-5 projects increase in dimension after the fact.

EI holds it’s own very well against Brazil…especially general GI work. EI is as fast and just as simple to set up. Image based illumination isn’t a strong suit in EI though - I hardly ever need to do that so not an issue.

Good on Rhino - great nurbs modeler and smart to have EIM around for conversions. You’ll need to rotate and mirror as the Z vector in Rhino and EIM are different.

Paul

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