Kerkythea Rendering Software

[micheus]

This thread is dedicated to share information about the Kerkythea render software.

* The initial posts were started in the Star wars hovercraft artwork thread.

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The new Kerkythea site is ready.

I noticed that download page doesn't make reference to the Echo Boost version (a release candidate) that is faster than previous one and also includes a 64bit version of the program. You can find the it here.

Some useful links:

• Kerkythea Documentation (The Material Editor Guide is very helpful)
  
• Kerkythea 2008 tutorials Master Listing
  
• Material Packs Master Listing - a collection of links
  
• Kerkythea – DoF using Depth Map and GIMP from Studiorola tutorials.
  Obs: The only thing I noticed was that the Depth map had needed to be inverted before use it.

[olve11]

Im shocked Oo AWESOME !
Very nice renders
Kerkythea is free to use ?

It's free for use (also for commercially)
If you have a good balanced settings - Strong rendering tool
(kerkythea dislikes lot of lights or illuminated materials = high rendering time)

[Radi]

dzięki ! umm thanks! my first steps with rendering start from today ! ^.^

[Radi]

It would be looking really great with some desert backround

Anyway guys, is there a way in Kerkythea to disable rendering of backfaces ?

[micheus]

Anyway guys, is there a way in Kerkythea to disable rendering of backfaces ?

Do you want to get the same effect you see in Wings3d when you uncheck View->Show Backfaces? No.

[Radi]

another question:
UV seams are always visible when rendering in Kerkythea, but normally in Wings or Unreal Tournament not, my textures are ideally cover seams.. Is there a way in Kerkythea to make seams less visible ??

[micheus]

another question:
UV seams are always visible when rendering in Kerkythea, but normally in Wings or Unreal Tournament not, my textures are ideally cover seams.. Is there a way in Kerkythea to make seams less visible ??

Any picture for evaluation?
Sometimes you need to scale down the mesh a little or paint the image out of the mesh.


* Don't forget to take a look at those links I put in the first post in this thread. You can find useful information there.

[olve11]

It would be looking really great with some desert backround



Anyway guys, is there a way in Kerkythea to disable rendering of backfaces ?

Tutorial Kerkythea transparent background:
http://www.kerkythea.net/cms/documentati...etcher.pdf

[Radi]

haha olve, this looks much better ^.^

@micheus:
UV seams are visible in Kerkythea.. just looks at these emoticons 'hands' .. strange this it..

[micheus]

Olve11, that's a excelent tutorial. Thanks for sharing.
Because I tried in the past I just see a situation which it seems to not work - if the scene have a transparent/translucent sphere - I was not able to merge that rendered scene with a picture and it work fine. Maybe I did something wrong!?

Radi, that's a situation I didn't experienced. I'll check it.