I tried to emulate your render, and this is as close as I got...
I made 3ds glass objects to resemble flames, and as you can see, they turned transparent. Is this a problem with the file or the plug-in? I can attach my flame file if you need to look at it, but since it is 3ds, I'm not sure if it gives the texture info like an obj mtl file?
I thought maybe my light settings were too strong, so I tried the "use light angle as power knob" and I could not get the scene to render at all. This is what it looked like....
Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong?
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This is my current project. This is a house I would like to build sometime. I've always loved the old cottage look that early american and earlier english homes had, so I tried to mimick that with my design. It is a fast render, so not too detailed, and I want to add some more details, but here ya go...
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