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Posted by Ceciliabr at Jan 31, 2018, 7:54:03 PM
Re: Tin Can Alley
Interesting thread.

Of course, for super renderers discussing reflections in Perrier bottles, there are better models to be found or made


Just like in real life, sometimes you feel compelled to view the world thru a bottle of Perrier just to find out how it looks – and then you just might let your curiosity get the better of you... wink



Anything that has a weight comes at a cost.
This Perrier bottle weighs 6.252kb, and the rendering time for this image ( 1280 X 727) was 1 h 0 min 43 s.
The Perrier mtl (in case anyone is interested):



Here is the image that was wrongly posted earlier ( sorry) :



(2048 X 1163) rendering time: 6 h 07 min 32 s.

What eats me, is that I do not really understand the .mtl settings; when what works how

That's a mystery for me too.
You can find a quite in-depth explanation here, but I think Sunflow only supports some of these settings.

Cec