thanks for your comments. I also think it is hard to judge which render is better because of the not so good quality in the PDF. What is noticable, though, is that Yafaray’s color bleeding is a bit less subtle, but that may very well be because of differences in scene setup. I tried very hard to match the Kerkythea one, but it’s not so easy when there’s only a picture as guide.

Funny that you did a similar scene before :). Are your testing results online somewhere? I’d be interested in what you tested and your results.

Sanne

@Sanne:
That Yaf(a)ray render is so unbelieveably close to the kerkythea one! But I prefer your one better – probably nothing more than because the image quality is better (i.e. saved at a better resolution) and the fact that there’s not as much ailasing. I actually made a test scene virtually identical to these (it was only the colours that were different) a while ago and tested it in various ways with blender internal – quite a coincidence as I’ve never seen a test scene exactly like it before!

~epat. :)

I was interested in what the new Yafaray would do with the Kerkythea test scene, so I tried to create a similar scene and did a render. If anybody wants to have a look, find it here:
http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/4483/gitestpq9.png

I have the whole set, thanks a bunch! :D

Most of the techniques discussed in this issue were possible in much earlier versions, you just to work at it a little harder. There was amazing art being produced in blender when I started using it over 7 years ago.

I am using the layered shader technique to mix reflection and different specular materials,
really cool stuff.

I am being amazed more and more how much the quality of a render is dependent on me and my chops, not the renderer and her features…

wzzl

I can’t help but notice though that there are a number of images which have distorted proportions from the originals. That’s a bit sloppy. I think by issue 12 stuff like that shouldn’t be showing up anymore.