Thank you again for the help and the material!

The new material seems to work. Do you know why this is? I still do not understand why the reflection showed very clearly when doing the first pass of the render, but then finishing it, it mostly completely disappeared.

Don't know why the textures did not go through. Here they are.
The black glass material is an experiment; we are trying different materials to see if any reflect better than others.

Thanks for the help!
Mark

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SgQ9cXNY10MAxFMfsUOIWRvLLzpP9I3a/view?usp=sharing

Dear Dr Sasi

We are trying to reflect particles from an emitter off of the "Know Thyself" text in the linked project.

We can see the reflection clearly in the Redshift Render window, but when outputting the animation, we do see the reflection at the beginning of the render as it is calculating the Irradiance Point Cloud, but when it does the final pass, these reflections are greatly dimmed or completely gone.

What setting will need to be changed in order to keep the reflections visible?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dO3_m1FxDjWHeUtQWLG1Vc891k_wC6qv/view?usp=sharing

Thank You
Mark

Thank you, this helped!

Hi Dr Sassi

Please see the attached file with a stripped-down C4d project, and note in the attached images that a patch of the ground cover disappears between frames 880 and 881. Something similar also happens between frames 896 and 897 in a different spot. We have eliminated all animation, and the settings seem otherwise identical between the 2 frames.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/11nMqZJqqihZb5W25pwuz2TySBUsdnQ4e/view?usp=sharing

Please advise.

Thank you,
Mark

Thank you for the additional info. I will take a look at what you sent when I have a chance. Don't know what you mean by a "sketch"?

Also, I am not a student, I work for a nonprofit creating materials to support their educational program.

Thank you I will give that a try!

Hi Dr Sassi,

Using RS Environment, we are animating the Emission Color and thickness using Camera under Ray contribution of fog to simulate morning fog to clear daylight. After looking this up on the internet and trying different render setting we we can not eliminate a flickering effect in output renders when playing them back.
The color will say even then will jump fairly dramatically from one frame to the next. You can see in the image I have done a split screen of 2 consecutive frames. I have uploaded a striped down project and one material texture needed to duplicate the issue. Do you know anything that might eliminate this drastic jump in color from frame to frame?

If you render from this project starting at frame 110, you should see the issue by frame 128.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JuCYkcAqKTndRO5JVNxrxIKO72amScsl/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1acRxB8HCUZxGGz2vP2L1u5jdCPYAgTbv/view?usp=sharing

Thanks Mark

Thank you!

Do you know how long I have been searching for fog and cloud tutorials! I have been looking for info on this for probably 2 years, this is the best tutorial I have seen and never came up in my searches.
They need to add Fog and Cloud to the tutorial name or at least the keywords!

You saved the day once again!

Thank you, Dr Sassi!

Wondering if there is a way to have the fog extend outside the bounds of the spline so we don't see the hard edge of the shape?