FG with more bounces

[sonne]

Is it just me, or are the other fanzy renderers like Brazil, FinalRender etc. all able to render FG with as many bounces as you get with GI?
Wouldn't it be extremely cool, if MR could render FG with more than one bounce?

/Peter

[atyss]

Bonjour Sonne,

Final Gathering is meant to be used in conjunction with Global Illumination. Of course you can use it to light a scene (either with a "skydome" or "lighting plates"), but it is not designed to calculate lots of bounces. In fact, it fades out very rapidly over space.

You'll have to use Global Illumination to do bouncing effects. Then add some FG if you want more impact of colors on neighbooring surfaces.

Visit Ed Harriss's website (www.edharriss.com), there are a lot of tutorials on Global Illumination.

Hope this helps
Salutations - Cheers
Bernard Lebel

[sonne]

Thanx for the answer, but I knew that already.
The post was more meant like: Wouldn't it be cool, if MR could do this? Especially now that the other GI renderers seem to be able to do it.
It would enable artists to light their scenes like they would in real life. F.ex. if you wanted to use a neon light.

/Peter

[wolfinger]

I did this exact thing, though I did it manually.

But if I understood correctly there is some kind of function in XSI to "freeze" the shaded texture on an object. You could first render your scene with FG, then "freeze" the FG-shaded textures, then render again with FG.

I did this by hand, which is totally not worth the time spent, and just about impossible for more complex scenes - but hey, I had to test it