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Aircraft texturing, shading, render at Mikros Image

But i worked on these commercials....

Same setup time, same type, 3 area lights, Final Gather on, default lights off, just cheated by increasing

shadows samples to 10 each...FG 100/0.5/interpol32/quality filter 1

Beautiful isn't it ? No need to know rendertime huh ?

With a physical sky, shadow softness 200 samples 256, big sundisk, low intensity (speculars)

Rendertime 6min50.

Good surprise, aspect ration was 1.066, so that it doesn't match Vray render. Had to recalculate it.

Why is MentalRay respecting aspect ratio ? No other render does it by default :D Maxwell, Vray, Arnold.

That physical sky can give nice results if we change a minimum it's settings. But i don't feel the same about

final image's magic...missing something relevant to global. but i won't go that way in MentalRay, it's known to

be a pain in the ass to reach quality and rendertime balance.

5Min in Maxwell are quite insufficient. :)

And the flash lit version with Maxwell, 1 hour render

Renders are even prettier than in first versions of Maxwell,

but i can't accept rendertime, even for that amazing result.

Lighting setup was easy to bring to life, like 5 minutes putting 3 planes around. And hit render

I only spent time on increasing watt power to make it brighter, the image was already crazy from the beginning.

Aperture and obstacle with scattering bring something real warm to the final look of the pic.

Lighting setup :