You didn't turn off your global illumination did you? Anyway, the renders look awsome as ever. Not much at all to critique. Have any idea where your going to go with your final render?

Either you have some irradience problems, or your using DGS material for your Mental Ray.

Anyway, the render is simply awsome!:beer:

Mayafreak3, I never said that you could "not" use final gather without GI. I said you should be using GI with FG.

That first quote was before you had a proper enviorment in with your model for GI...

No, It's how you originally thought. Max= large Min=Small.

Here is an example pic. Notice the settings are 1/10th in scale.

Defniately keep the min and max values as low as you can on a one tenth scale, the render will get faster. But to get high quality renders, you have to use high settings. You should be using Final...

Awsome render! :beer:

Awsome render!:attn: That vintage look really grabs ya.

Varley, I have seen some of the Gnomon workshop series. Thay are put together really well. I wish I had one on the GI. I think the 60...

Magicsy, you can use light sources with Final Gather. You just have to learn how to use them properly. My Life force Snake I entered in the Sept/Oct challenge, I used 3 spotlights to light it. I...

Some important info about final gather you may or may not know about.

The final Gather option creates very realistic shading effects by bouncing an objects "COLOR" onto other objects, as in real...

I would reccomend you turn GI off. Global Illumination is designed to bounce photons off of surfaces to mimic real light conditions. Interior settings like Kitchens, bathrooms, living rooms are what...