Digital Ice Cubes Problem

[UNFLUX]

I have been trying to get into 3D a little bit here and am still very new at this. I rendered these ice cubes last night using LightWave 3D:

ICE CUBES (http://www.ozzu.com/examples/icecubes0030001.jpg)

and cannot figure out for the life of me why the cubes have the lines in the cube and in the shadow. I thought at first it my be the ray recursion limit so I manipulated that from 4 to 16 with the same results. Any ideas what could be causing this?

[Raydred]

on the link...
says its forbidden..

[UNFLUX]

all you have to do is copy/paste the url in directly, sorry - http://www.ozzu.com/examples/icecubes0030001.jpg

[Prancer]

for those who cant see it go here (http://ozzu.com/ftopic42829.html)
then click on the link.

unflux, what does the wireframe look like, that might provide an insight to the problem.

[UNFLUX]

yeah my partner doesn't have an account here so he asked me to post for him. I'm curious as well anyway. :P

i'll have to get him to do a SS of it...

[Jako]

Looks sweet man, besides those two little "glitches" it looks great...

[UNFLUX]

here's the wireframing as requested (copy/paste the url):
http://www.ozzu.com/examples/icecubes-wireframe.jpg

[[uber]]

I have no clue... i'm a blender guy... This an UNFLUX Partner?

[Prancer]

yeah, I'm at a loss. well there doesnt seem to be any problem with how he modeled it.
:puzzled:

[Infinitation]

While I do not use lightwave, the main issue I see is the material that is appliced seems to be "facing", or a UVW is not properly applied if you are using any tuype of image mapping. The shadow also needs a raytraced shadow to pull off the believeability in translucency. I believe Neil Blevins, even though he uses Max, might be of a huge help in lighting and materials. Good general insight from the education section of his site. Hope this helps a bit.

[mlk]

haha it reminds me of that reaaaaally old thread: http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20436&highlight=ice+cubes =)

[UNFLUX]

thx for the tip Infinitation, I'll give that a try.

[andr.in]

I have no idea how to remove that but right now I'm thinking that mby this thing is not so bad... adds some cool effects ;) :P