Forgetting Blender for TS

[Draise]

hahaha nice one!!!

I highly recommend using the plugin for Gimp Insane Bump, it will generate specular maps, normal maps, whatnots for your textures automatically and really quickly.

And yeah, shading really makes things pop.

Though.. I must admit now this thing looks like it might fall out of the sky in a ball of rusted dust if you fly it too hard. Hahaha

[FHembree]

Decided to waste some time by experimenting and adding lights to model.
I tried using the light material in YafRay, but that didn't work, as only the 32 bit version
supports that material and it renders extremely slow. The solution was to use point lights
in YafRay and those all work with the 64 bit version.

[Steinie]

Dang, I wouldn't want to engage a fight with this one!!!
Nice work taking your work further. I think this is really cool stuff and makes a big difference !

[seppgirty]

That thing is a beast! I want 2 of them.

[FHembree]

Wanted to add an updated rear view. After some research I found that the yafaRay shinny
diffuse material has a check box for using this material as a Emission material. This basically
allows you to use shinny diffuse objects or mesh as a light mesh.

A few TS76 enhancements I have found as very useful:
1. Cycle wire highlight: (Hightlights objects as you move cursor over them and
makes it easier to see what you want to select.
2.Install frame-selection v0.3.1: (zoom to selection)
After install control double click middle mouse button to zoom to
selected object (Never get lost in a view again)
3. Layerz: (Very usefull layering system)
4. Install Visibility Toggle Button v1.5:
(Turn off visibility of selected object)
5. Spotlight Transform Widget installer:
(Add widget manulapator to spot light and other lights)

I also checked and found out there is a new version of yafaRay. It is
version 3.1.1 and I download it and an now using that version in truespace.
Haven't checked docs to see what improvements have been made but glad to see that yafaRay is
still being enhanced.

[seppgirty]

I'm going to have to try again to get yafaray to work. Do you have the link for it?

[FHembree]

I'm going to have to try again to get yafaray to work. Do you have the link for it?

Below is the link to website for YafaRay for truespace project where you can
download yafaRay for truespace and also tutorials.

http://www.yafaray4ts.org/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Once set up and working you can update yafaray to laterst version by downloading
using this link:

http://www.yafaray.org/download" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

To use latest download just change the settings in the yafaray Truespace menu to point
to location of the latest version just downloaded.
The latest version is a zip file. For Truespace you unzip the file where you desire, and then in truespace
set location for the yafaray-xml.exe file. For my setup I put the files into folder
c:\YafaRay-3-3-1, so the yafaray-xml.exe file is located in at: C:\yafaRay-3-3-1\bin\yafaray-xml.exe

[seppgirty]

Thanks for the info. i'll give it a try as soon as i get a chance.