shadow setting jumps / file saving question

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shadow setting jumps / file saving question

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hi all

1) every time i convert a material to a emitter the shadow setting jumps from real ( my setting) to ambient. any idea why?


2)for some reason i cant load saved settings in to a new model - to make it easy a example:

i build a house in sketchhup - the main model hat 3 windows. i save it as "3 windows" . i render it with 30 lights so it takes quite a time to get all the setting correct.

now i want the same house with 2 windows, i edit the 3 window version in sketchup and save it a "2 windows" i render it,so i want to load the settings from "3 windows" to save all the time i invested in setting all the emitters..

if i load the settings from " 3 windows" i get the house with 3 windows back. what am i missing? am i opening the wrong file? tested a night long and dont get on

thanks, patrick
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Re: shadow setting jumps / file saving question

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Hi,

1) We fixed it.

2) We added a new menu item "Load settings from..." so you can load a setting file from any other models.

If your exported model is named House.rof then the setting file will automatically be House.cfg so until the next release (v4.5) you can simply copy House.cfg to House2.cfg and load House2.rof

But what I can do is PM you v4.491 right now with all these changes. Do you use the CPU or GPU version?
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Re: shadow setting jumps / file saving question

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hi!

Sounds great i use the gpu version.

Also strange - i just got the error message " your video card is very slow " but i got this computer just for rendering with the gtx 980 witch i find crazy fast. I get 6 samples every second on a big model.

Thxk patrick
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Re: shadow setting jumps / file saving question

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ok let me PM it to your shortly.

This message is normal, when it upload the textures and whatever data to the video card it can take longer than it takes to render a single frame. Only worry about it when it starts rendering. It's to prevent system freeze. For example, if you have a really cheap card and it takes 10 min to render a frame, your system will not be usable and a reset will be required.
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