Now, I thought I’d make a logo for myself, avatar, desktop background whatever, just something simple and clean that I could use here and there. So I took a V, slapped on some see-through, ray something and rendered. After a couple of trial&error sessions I get everything to look right. Except the lines produced by the shading, it’s like it shades by inches when it goes right. How do I fix this, just render in 10240*7680 and then adjust to desktop or what? I just want the shading to be smooth like it is in the miniatyres, you have to view it at normal size to see the bad shading. Pls someone, take pity on me
Perhaps I should say that the render in itself doesn’t show these lines, just the saved copys. If anyone could point me in the general direction of my mistake, pls do.
I’m not sure what you mean by lines…
The shading looks fine to me.
If you are refering to the gradient shading in the background It is probably the color settings in whatever format you are saving in you could try a different format such as png.
Other than that I don’t know what to tell you.
@afalldorf
“If you are refering to the gradient shading in the background”
Lacking the vocabulary to describe it myself, exactly.
I’ve tried png, tiff, jpeg, dunno if there are any more. Tiff looked to be perfect, with no visible lines, but when converting via photoshop (to PNG) i got the same lines again. It just seems like huge failure having to use photoshop to edit them out.
@SmokinJuan
I tried it now, but no change it seems. Thanks for input though
I actually rendered at 9216*6912 to see if it helped, but it didn’t. Wondering if I should exchange the spot and buffered shadows with a sun with raytracing. Pls, I’ll try any idea you’ve got
Im stumped…
I know the lines are a result of a lack of color variation in the shading but I really have no Idea how to smooth out the gradient. Maybe if you try playing around with different lights and shadows you can make it work.
Also It could be the color settings on your monitor or video card because it is very hard for me to see them on my laptop but they showed up right away on my desktop.
Thanks for all the advice, it seems that it was the combination of “bad” lighting and the wrong colors. The red was not too nice to the png format, and my single source lighting made it worse. When I use a 3 point lighting and a slighty different color everything starts working again. Thanks for the help, you really saved my day.