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"Not sure if I posted pics of the finished boat on BD...either way here's one"

"Ditto to you too Steve! :-) The little one (tender) h was launched a couple of months ago. The big one (47m) will hopefully see the light of day once my client can sell his current yacht...."

"Here it is again..."

"I tried using the full-moon HDRI, but found that it was too 'bright' giving rather overwhelming reflections off areas of glass. Here's one I did of something a little larger, using an HDRI I just found using google.... I have a fair…"

"Here's a quick render (100 passes!) done mostly using Scott's most recent settings... looks pretty good all in all :-)  though the path tracer set up seems to result in a slightly fuzzier final product  "

"Thanks Scott I'll have a play with that for a while. Of course, your render is shown zoomed in... in the case of a yacht render, it would need to be a much wider 'shot', so the object that is being lit will need to be much larger…"

"Thanks Scott. You were definitely right about it taking some time... I assume the render process with it set at Path Tracer is slower and requires a lot more passes before anything sensible appears Would you mind posting the model for this latest…"

"I'm a true novice when it comes to doing lighting with flamingo, but I too would like to render with underwater lights. Can you please explain what the environment etc settings were for your model? I agree that they would be better if…"

"Thanks Scott. Yes - I had to re-install Nxt after R5 in order to get it to 'load'. All running sweetly now.... :-)"

"NXT will install for both Rhino 4 and Rhino 5, both 32 and 64 bit.  Normally I would re-install NXT after installing Rhino 5.  This will update Rhino 5 to run with NXT."

"The dark light issues are due to the drastic difference between the bright side of the boat and the dark side of the boat.  Also, the lack of indirect light is accentuating the problem. I might try Studio light setup with…"

"and here's the file....."

"3rd time lucky.... It's a bit jumpy because I didn't do a lot of frames in order to keep the file size down, but you can clearly see problems with overall light levels and the strange 'blackening' of the window areas. Also the…"

"I'm still finding that I'm having trouble getting the colours to accurately display. As you can see in the attached, which I've sort of set up to accentuate the problem, this is a boat that is entirely made up of shades of grey and…"

"Thanks Scott! Will give all that a try..."