Can’t afford one so I modelled it instead, anybody seen Neil Young?

That is awesome!!! Did you use Shark FX for the rendering?

Tim

Edited by user Saturday, January 16, 2016 4:07:36 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Hi again Tim, I did a small test to get an idea of Sharks render capability (snowed in).

Programs like Blender are now using the GPU for rendering and it is much faster than the CPU, I used the car as a test subject to highlight the difference.
Blender car test, GPU = 49 seconds CPU = 7 minutes 36 seconds (Shark would take hours if the floor option was used).

The Gibson figures for Blender are GPU = 28 seconds CPU = 3 minutes 46 seconds.

Shark rendered the Gibson in 52 seconds Raytrace (shadows, anti-alias, Use anti-alias feature following) no floor option, quality and ease of material use was very good.
When I tried to use a drop shadow Shark would not complete the render, it got to 99% of the first pass and stayed like that, after 25 minutes of no action I had to force close Shark.

Not being able to abort a render with the escape key is a huge problem as Shark does not record the last save when it crashes or is forced to close.

I could not render the Gibson logo as it is an image, can Shark render images?

Edited by user Sunday, January 17, 2016 8:40:46 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Thanks, the top image was rendered in Blender so it is an image imported as a plane in Blender, really simple.
The last image that you see above in my reply to Tim was rendered in Shark and that’s why there is no Gibson logo.
Blender can be off-putting but once you get the hang of it, it is a really powerful program, you should give it a real go as it is free and will always be free.
I struggled with Blender in the beginning but it is a lot more user friendly now and really fast, Shark for precision and mesh modelling, Blender for render and animation , a hard to beat combo now that Shark has organic modelling.

Nice work on your examples

Edited by user Sunday, January 17, 2016 10:08:01 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Hi Tim,

if i fitted a decal as a example to a cube and than translate or rotate the cube to another position
the decal isn't not on the original position of the cube.

Should that be so?

This is my biggest problem to use Viacad for renderings.
The quality would otherwise be sufficient to render floorpans with interior.


Thanks
Matthias

if i rotate the cube the decal don't rotate in the same way as the cube , translate in xyz direction is ok.
See the screen movie or i do it wrong?