adywan said:
No i do not insist on misinterpreting every word you say at all. All i have done is answer back to exactly what you wrote. There is no misinterpreatation at all as it's as clear as day what you wrote.
And that picture you just posted with the comparisons you have actually proved yourself to be totally wrong. You are comparing completely the wrong sections of the city and , as you have shown, my new matte has exactly the same type of gradient so i really can't see the problem
And you have obviously checked the colouring on the 2004 set for this shot as it was never as dark as it is now, which is why i said to check the original, not the SE.
No, I am not wrong because the shading on the matte is completely messed up for what you are trying to use it for. In fact looking at the comparison I see the original use for it, which is with the dim sun behind it. Where rim lighting like that works fine and the gradient is not distracting as simple ambient detailing. I have a fairly good understanding of how things should shade, and I think maybe you should have vaderios render a shading of cloud city to match your lighting situation if you can't see that it's wrong.