<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Update:</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>After some experimentation I have discovered what causes the objects to render black while using Static BVH.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Somewhere along the way, while modeling and scaling objects the objects have developed negative scale values, they still render perfectly with Dynamic BVH but black with Static BVH, once the objects scale value is returned to a positive value the object renders correctly with Static BVH.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>David<br></span></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span
style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> David Black <db4tech@yahoo.co.uk><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "bf-cycles@blender.org" <bf-cycles@blender.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, 4 November 2011, 20:47<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Bf-cycles] Rendering with Static BVH Only<br></font><br><div id="yiv1767135078"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;">Hi Brecht,<div style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"><span></span><div id="yiv1767135078"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Now you have switched to Static BVH for full renders, why do some of surfaces in a scene I
am working on for my BA (Hons) render as black, while they render fine with Dynamic BVH?</span></div><div><br></div><div>Have checked surface normals and they are facing out.<br>Tried attaching a couple of small file screen captures <span style="font-style:italic;">(around 200 KB)</span> each but they were still to large for the mailing list.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-weight:bold;">On a different subject</span> (should I ask as a separate subject?)<br><span></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span></span><span>Thinking ahead... Will you be adding a method for clay renders?</span></div><div><span>Using the unfinished OpenCL for clay renders has been very useful for degree work, without
having to edit all objects materials.</span><span> If you will be adding a Clay option, will it use current scene lights, or just environment lighting, like the idea current scene lighting.<br></span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Thank you kindly for your time</span><span>,</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>David</span></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Brecht Van Lommel <brechtvanlommel@pandora.be><br><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">To:</span></b> bf-cycles@blender.org<br><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, 4 November 2011, 16:37<br><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Bf-cycles] Rendering with Static BVH
Only<br></font><br>You're right, I thought it was using static already but it seems it's<br>not, fixed in svn now.<br><br>Brecht.<br><br>On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 3:04 AM, Daniel Salazar - 3Developer.com<br><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:zanqdo@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:zanqdo@gmail.com">zanqdo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Just a question, does it make sense that rendering a frame or an animation<br>> uses your dynamic or static BVH setting? shouldn't it only do static since<br>> it's faster?<br>> cheers<br>> Daniel Salazar<br>> 3Developer.com<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Bf-cycles mailing list<br>> <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:Bf-cycles@blender.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:Bf-cycles@blender.org">Bf-cycles@blender.org</a><br>> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
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