Quote from: calico on July 16, 2008, 08:58:18 AM
I'd rather see the two separate images with everything exactly the same. While it's easy to conclude that certain things don't matter, I've seen where a small change I didn't think matters actually does matter. Hope you'll be patient with my understanding of troubleshooting, since I work in the IT industry and have found that small changes can change everything.
If you render both of these in the two different releases with the exact same settings across the board, including Soft Shadows turned on, and you get these sorts of results, I bet Planetside would be very interested.
Unfortunately, I cannot replicate the exact camera location in this original scene as I apparently did not save the camera settings in the TGD file before quitting. All other setttings were saved, however. The last thing I did before the final TP3 render above was adjust the camera before the render. I forgot to mention that I rendered the object in this scene several times from several different camera angles in TP4 (close and far away) and the chair remained black (i.e., no change to the visual results). This is why I'm sure the camera placement is not affecting this issue.
Also, it took over 2 days to render the first full image in TP3. I'm not anxious to revisit the first or second render in TP3 by fully re-rendering it. I could render the image cropped, but that could change the results as well. Not to mention, I can't re-render it in TP3 while TP4 is installed. Planetside has decided not to allow installation of both versions simultaneously on the system. Because I only have the TP4 tgd render saved, the only option is to take the TP4 tgd and re-render it in TP3. In order to re-render it in TP3, I'd have to uninstall TP4 and reinstall TP3. Then, spend over 2 days fully re-rendering it.
It's possible that something else has been enabled or disabled between TP3 and TP4. There have been a number of new features added. With these additions, some features may been disabled or enabled in TP4 to result in the above visual change. Because I can't run both versions simultaneously on the same machine and because of TP4's new features, I cannot do a truly side-by-side feature double-check to ensure both scene settings are, in fact, identical before a render. Thus, TP4 could potentially open TP3 saved tgd files with new features already enabled.. features that didn't exist in TP3.
You'll forgive me, then, if I don't indulge your curiosity. However, I am willing to upload the TGD and the OBJ file if Planetside requests it. If they want to do side-by-side comparison renders, I'm fine with that.
Thanks.
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Brian