Adam Trachtenberg
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Try running the viewport>edit>frame default function to restore the editor camera’s original settings. Be mindful of when you’re trucking the camera in/out vs. zooming the camera in/out. If you indadvertently zoom in too far you can have these sorts of problems and the viewport becomes balky.
As a general rule it’s a good idea to keep your scenes within the approximate area of the default grid. If they’re a lot larger, and also if they’re very very small, you can run into floating point problems that make navigation difficult.
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You might need to contact Renato for an update. Send him an e-mail with the first 11 digits of your r11 registration number.
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Yes. 🙂
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The main thing that AR adds is global illumination, which is the ability to render bounced light and also to generate light with textures (like HDRIs) and materials. AR also adds caustics, which are reflected and transmitted light (think mirrors and prisms). There are a few other additions, but nothing too exciting there.
So, basically the reason to buy AR is global illumination. It’s most useful for architectural visualization, although it can also be very effective with product viz and other things. It wouldn’t be that useful for logo work.
You can try it out by downloading the demo.
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Check the visibility box in the effector’s parameters tab.
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EDIT: it seems that you don’t have to convert the extrude to polygons to use it in a volume effector, which is great as it keeps things parametric.
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That’s pretty much going to do the same thing as the spline effector.
The only way I can think to do it would be to extrude the spline, make it editable, weld the caps, and use the resulting object in a volume effector set to control visibility.
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I don’t think you’ll see any speed up of your VRay renders, but AR is considerably faster, and better looking, in r11 than it was in r10+. Non-GI renders are generally 10-20% faster. GI rendering is much much faster.
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That’s odd. Turning on GI and using a sky object makes no difference here. What Cinema version are you using? Can you post a scene where it’s not working?
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In this case you don’t need the gradient; just animate the length parameter from 0% to 100%.