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Title: Low detail in the mirror
Post by: russe166 on February 20, 2014, 07:01:26 AM
Hallo!

Does anyone have an idea how to make the landscape in the mirror (behind the camera) more detailed ?

Michael
Title: Re: Low detail in the mirror
Post by: Dune on February 20, 2014, 08:46:02 AM
Ì believe you should increase the ray detail region padding in renderer advanced to overcome the blocky sides. It's outside the camera frustrum, hence the blockyness. But by how much I don't know.
Title: Re: Low detail in the mirror
Post by: kaedorg on February 20, 2014, 09:23:32 AM
Ulco is right. Cursor is from 0 to 1. I would suggest you to try with 1.

But you also need to set ray detail region in advanced render tab to 360 degree detail (highest suggested)

Of course that will increase the rendering time.

Here is your image with suggested parameters

David
Title: Re: Low detail in the mirror
Post by: Tangled-Universe on February 20, 2014, 09:53:54 AM
Quote from: kaedorg on February 20, 2014, 09:23:32 AM
Ulco is right. Cursor is from 0 to 1. I would suggest you to try with 1.

But you also need to set ray detail region in advanced render tab to 360 degree detail (highest suggested)

Of course that will increase the rendering time.

Here is your image with suggested parameters

David

I have never used the 360 degrees option....(end of disclaimer)

If you use 360 degrees option then you don't need any padding I would think?
What else is there to pad when you sample 360 degrees already?
Title: Re: Low detail in the mirror
Post by: kaedorg on February 20, 2014, 10:37:23 AM
I think you're right T-U.

I didn't use very often. And I found the solution by tries.
If I remember well, I first try the padding to 1 and it didn't work. I then changed ray detail region
but didn't try it with padding back to 0.
And as I didn't find any topic about both (interaction), I kept this setting.
Maybe anyone can confirm your idea.

Thanks anyway for it.

David
Title: Re: Low detail in the mirror
Post by: russe166 on February 20, 2014, 01:13:57 PM
Thank you very much!
Now I know what I must do.  :)

Michael
Title: Re: Low detail in the mirror
Post by: kaedorg on February 20, 2014, 11:55:39 PM
Glad to hear that Michael  ;)

Hope to see where your project is going on.

David
Title: Re: Low detail in the mirror
Post by: russe166 on February 24, 2014, 11:06:14 AM
So, here is the final picture ...


Title: Re: Low detail in the mirror
Post by: Dune on February 24, 2014, 11:56:05 AM
Terrific!
Title: Re: Low detail in the mirror
Post by: kaedorg on February 24, 2014, 12:02:02 PM
Love the idea. Love the render. That's great.
Title: Re: Low detail in the mirror
Post by: Matt on February 25, 2014, 01:31:19 AM
There are two versions of the 360 degree detail option. You can choose between "optimal" and "highest". In a situation like this where the ball is demagnifying the reflection you might not need to use "highest". "Optimal" will render faster because it somewhat reduces the detail behind the camera.

Matt
Title: Re: Low detail in the mirror
Post by: russe166 on February 25, 2014, 04:53:59 AM
Hi Matt,

I'll try.
Thank you for the tip.

Michael