[Dustin Zalesky]

4322_2l.zip

here is the file, i tried putting in a solid white background and no floor and still got the weird black areas… it’s confusing… only way to get rid of them is to shrink it way past the inner plastic.

[Dustin Zalesky]

Thanks! you guys are giving amazing feedback. I appreciate the help.

[Dustin Zalesky]

i’m having some issues with the liquid creating some weird triangles of darkness, i’ve experimented with changing all kinds of reflection/refraction settings but it won’t go away… the only way to get rid of it is to reduce the size of the liquid all the way past the plastic bottle… from what I’ve read the liquid needs to be in-between the thickness of the plastic, and thats how i did it. I took the inside thickness and deleted the outside, then expanded it a small amount so that it sits in-between… am i doing something wrong? here is a screenshot…

[Dustin Zalesky]

Do you know if the render instance duplicate saves render time or only helps the machine run better??? to me it seems like the scene runs better but render times are the same… I was thinking about rebuilding my shelving using the render instance clones instead of just copy/pasting them. When i’m closer to completion i want to offset the shelves a little to make it look more realistic, i’m going to be adding a lot of other competitor product around the sunkist layout… I’m worried about how it will handle the shelves full since it struggles with just a little… someone was telling me perhaps try cubes with alpha channels, i’m just afraid it will look too cheesie or flat.

[Dustin Zalesky]

21 minutes!!! it takes me like an hour… is 13 that efficient or is your computer better?? i’m on a new iMac i7 3.4 quad core with a 6970 2 gig video card and 32 gigs of pc1300 ram.

You’ve been a tremendous help, I didn’t attach everything in the scene because my original file was over a gig with all the product in it. Your end result looks pretty much the same as the 20 minute render… nice, i’m going to to apply these settings right now and see what happens.

Is the r13 from 11.5 upgrade worth getting?? i noticed it’s a couple thousand to upgrade… I was considering just getting Vray instead…

[Dustin Zalesky]

4314_shelfbuildingtest.c4d.zip

[Dustin Zalesky]

checking the details tab for GI made my render times sky rocket… so i unchecked that but I did turn off the GI on all transparent objects, it doesn’t look quite as fancy but maybe i can switch it back on right before my close up on the product… thanks for your help… i’ll be filling the shelving with competitor product, it doesn’t need to be as detailed since i’ll be zooming by it… i was thinking maybe even doing a cube with a alpha channel, i’m not sure how great that will look though.

[Dustin Zalesky]

Thanks for the suggestions! I added tags with GI off for the transparent bottles… I added it on top of the hybernurbs group, i hope that effects it all?? i also used render instance and only added the tag to the original products. I checked the details tab on GI, i’m doing a new render now to see how it all looks… thanks for your suggestions, I’ll post updates please add any more critiques you have. I’m pretty much self taught so I don’t have any one else’s professional input on my scenes… I’m relying on you guys! 🙂

Thanks again!

[Dustin Zalesky]

Thanks guys, i may of not made it clear but I was looking for someone that would either fly to my work place and stay in a hotel for a few days or I would come to them… so it has to be in the united states… the pay would be sufficient for travel costs etc of course.