yep, basically same thing both parameters since they are dependant, but especially arnold hates focal length keyframes

Hey Community! Right now I am working on a space combat scene. And since I like Galactica so much, I'd like to make some zooming back and forth, with refocussing etc. Am I right that there's no "zoom" option in the softimage camera? So I decided to animate the focal length in the "pro...

Hi Dudez,
my "Stamp UV" Button in the UV Editor is grey and not clickable - why?

Yey, thank you

Hi folks!
Is there a possibility to move selected keyframes in the animation editor by a numeric input in the "frame" field?

Let's say first keyframe is at frame 1, second at frame 15.
Typing in "+10" or such to make the first start at 10 and the second at 25 - possible?

Solved partially - one had an empty alphachannel, the other no alpha channel at all. Any idea, which switch there is saying somthing like "mutliply by alpha", "rgba or rgb" or such?

Howdy folks, Im working on some cartoony fluffy clouds, polymodels. After some Ambient Occlusion Baking I decided to color them in photoshop. But the results were different - so I decided to give the textures in photoshop a constant color, to check out what happenes in softi. So what we have are (ch...

No preset really works - using 2011SP1 - is this a compatibility problem?

Thank you!

The Architectural for Reflectors for glowing surfaces?

Howdy folks, any idea why when initializing the Physical Sun and Sky (SI2011SP1) all constant materials in my scene get black? Mit simple setup is seen on the screenshot. If not compatible, how do I create a proper brightener/reflector then? Hugs Phil EDIT: Works! Push up the Incandescence of the co...

Simply youse the framebuffer/channel called "object labels" and switch its output file to 32bit exr - worked good for me

They look gorgeous! I like the rough metals the most.

But you should change the links to most of the textures, since only marble_red_diff and _refl are linked correctly. Is there a way I could change it myself?

Howdy Partners,
I've got issues concerning SSS with GI - right now I use the fast simple SSS material, which seemingly has no output for photons (?).
If I emit photons from a spot it says "no photons reutrned after emission".

What could I do?

Harr I found a solution:

Plug Diffuse into Mix2Colors (Base Color) and in AO (bright color).
AO into same Mix2Colors (color1).
Shadow Shader (rgb checked) into Weight.

Looks really cool

Hey Kids, I'm looking for a way to make ao only appear in shadowed/darkened areas (which is closer to reality than ao on everything). "Do it in comp" they say - maybe a good idea, still there must be a way to produce an intelligent shader doing this for me. My first approach was Mix 2 Colo...