'luxball' Default Material Preview Scene

[Poncho]

Quick question Did you already try the 'Join Triangles' option under edit menu? That removed on the original a lot.

Does lux export convert to triangles?

I have no idea...

[Rhys]

What do people think about scaling the ball and scene up, currently 10cm is the ball. Its pretty small imo, mainly considering bump maps and procedural texture sizes.

[Poncho]

What are you thinking about, a ball of 1 meter?

I also think it's small, but I don't know what it should be or what is normal...

[psychotron]

if your material work great on 10cm ball you can be sure it will work great on 1m ball too... I think this isn't working very well in reverse

[Rhys]

I had a look around, 10cm seems to be the standard size, so i guess probably keep it that way.

[lfrisken]

maybe a simple way to scale the test scene might be a good idea?

[xray]

Well maybe Im the only one, but I think the luxball like it is now isn't really comfortable to test materials with a lot of displacement. The problem is
that now there are 7 holes in the sphere which disturbs a good view on displacement maps. Maybe one would be better like the indigo preview ball
anyway I liked the light setup in the indigo preview ball more somehow. So I tried to create the preview scene indigos, I know that's better not to
clone things. My post is also not a hint to change the current luxball, I just wanted to share my one with some test materials:

note the texture's of the 'grass-paver' is from mrmoose out of the indigo forum (I hope he don't hurt me for this )

[SATtva]

Sexy. :) But please better use Linear tonemapping for such things (brightness discrepancies lead me to think it was Reinhard for these images).

[psychotron]

very nice indeed, pawn is stunning.. how many subdivs?

imho could be fun to held some initiative of luxball test scene and content revamp
targeted to v0.7 perhaps

edit: maybe in form of contest or a collaborative effort

[xray]

But please better use Linear tonemapping for such things (brightness discrepancies lead me to think it was Reinhard for these images).

Ok... and why (just for knowledge) ?

very nice indeed, pawn is stunning.. how many subdivs?

My sphere has about 32k polygons and I used for the most materials a subdiv of 2, but in some cases it would be a subdiv of 1 enough I think