time under trees

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I am glad to publish my latest my personal scene Time Under The Trees. I made these series of images to practice different seasonal and lighting conditions and how the environment reacts. My starting point was an Australian house: Toorak Residence but I have changed some architectural forms and some materials to fit my practice purpose. So it looks a bit different from this building now.

My target was to study how different lighting conditions change the mood of an image, how materials react to nature and seasons, how light shapes and defines our environment. So, I wanted to keep the same camera shot when things are changing. It was fun for me to work on this scene, and I have learned many new things while working on it.

VFB history window

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I have prepared a mini tutorial about how to activate the VFB History Window. This is a very useful but hidden feature of VRAY and it is one of my favorite tools.

It is a very handy feature to have your render history -Very easy to switch between previous renders with one click, and no need to save them them as a file, give seperate file names, open in an image viewer anymore! You can view all your previous renders with the 32bit VFB. To activate this feature, you need to create an environment variable:

1. Right click on MyComputer. Go to Advanced Tab. Click on the  "Environment Variables" button at bottom of the window.

2.  Click on "New"

3.  Make a new Environment Variable as shown in the image:

Now when you start max and render into VrayFrameBuffer, on the right bottom of VFB window , you will see a new button which opens and close the history window. 

You will be asked  to assign a temp path in your first usage. And this is all :) From now on, you can compare your renders by clicking on the thumbnails in your VFB History.

Akira Sakamoto

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Good architecture and good images!On the opennig page image: I like it a lot how the warm light comes in through from the ceiling openning- while blue cool light casts inside from the side window. How those lights coplimentary in such a bright daylight image. There are many more good compositions and interesting architecture in the gallery.

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