Radiosity or Advanced Lighting

[kcy88]

Here's what i learned this year.
1) radiosity can screw up the animation especially if u have objects moving and the camera is moving. From what i understand, radiosity recalculates the lighting solution every frame which causes inconsistency (i.e. flickers).

2) light tracer works well on outdoor scenes especially in conjunction with a skylight.

3) try experimenting with just regular omni lights, i suggest doing this tutorial:
http://www.michaelscholz.de/neuehome...l/tut02_e.html

4)lastly, i storngly recommend going to this site:
http://www.xenomorphic.co.uk/education.htm

Good Luck!

[ThetaDot]

yeah kcy88 is right.. unless you turn the quality of the radiosity to insanely high levels you are going to see flicker if you have things moving around

[Matt Hallock]

Brazil cuts the time of rendering in 1/3rd of that of MAX scanline, it is also faster than VRAY and Final Render, only if you know what to do with all the settings.

However, as Thetadot has pushed before, it's best you learn the traditional way of lighting first, even if you may not do it to the full extent, because the settings in some of these advanced renderers expect you to know some light theory.