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You already have a bigger version of your "Interior" render
Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 4:55 pm
by Ecuadorian
Note:
This works with the Easy - "Interior" and "Interior+" presets.
Let's say you left your machine doing a small test overnight. This render had completed more than 6,000 passes when I stopped it:
- lambo-saved-as-JPG.JPG (9.51 KiB) Viewed 19370 times
Want a bigger version? Just save as .hdr and open the file in an external program. This is what I got after opening the .hdr in Motiva RealCamera, playing a little bit with the exposure and gamma and then saving it as .jpg:
Re: You already have a bigger version of your "Interior" render
Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 5:03 pm
by Ecuadorian
Here's the link to download the latest version of Motiva RealCamera (freeware):
http://www.motivacg.com/recursos/Motiva ... a_0.2a.rar
And the info page:
http://www.motivacg.com/descargas_en.php
After opening your .hdr in Motiva RealCamera, set the "Input gamma" to 1 and leave the "Output gamma" at 2.2. The "Input gain" control will then be roughly equivalent to Twilight's exposure control. Of course, you're free to experiment.
- input-gamma.gif (11.12 KiB) Viewed 19353 times
Your photo editor might also be able to open .hdr files, try it.
The reason why this tricks works is that when you use the "Interior" and "Interior+" presets, your image is internally rendered at 3x the size you choose, to help fight "jaggies". If you don't want to see jaggies when you open the .hdr, just make sure to always use a camera aperture different than "pinhole" and select an object in your scene as Twilight's focus point, or "target". I used F-number = 2 for this test, and focused the camera on the car.
Note: The bigger version extracted from the .hdr will be, obviously, noisier. You don't notice that in this example because I allowed it to render for 6,000 passes.
A related trick is that you can get away by using the "Interior Preview" preset and still get no jaggies if you use a camera aperture to blur part of the scene.
Re: You already have a bigger version of your "Interior" render
Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 5:28 pm
by shura
This is fantastic news! Might be a good helper in projects with tough deadlines... Thank You
Re: You already have a bigger version of your "Interior" render
Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 5:51 pm
by Ecuadorian
Just remember than when you use "Interior preview" there is no supersampling, and thus the're no 3x-size version to extract from the .hdr.
Re: You already have a bigger version of your "Interior" render
Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 9:36 am
by Zacchia
this is really interesting and right now i test it. Just one thing: Motiva runs only version 01b. The versions 02b and 04c i can not load images on one PC, one another one it works. What about anybody, no problems?
Re: You already have a bigger version of your "Interior" render
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 3:48 pm
by Ecuadorian
I can't run any Motiva software in Windows 7.
Re: You already have a bigger version of your "Interior" render
Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 12:28 pm
by unclebim
You can open the .hdr file with IrfanView. Make sure you have the plugins pack installed.
Re: You already have a bigger version of your "Interior" render
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 3:14 pm
by coskuarsiray
There is a little software called hdr view.
This works too.
http://ict.debevec.org/~debevec/FiatLux/hdrview/
Thank you for the great tip by the way!