Re: trebuchet restored

By pure coincidence, I saw an episode of 'Punkin Chunkin' on Discovery yesterday, never heard of it before. A clear sign that I shouldn't meddle with trebuchets for too long, it makes people crazy and obsessive! ;) It's going to be fun to compare DA /Chrono / Realsoft with Blender's

Re: news about v 8:) // any news about realease date V 8 ?

Thank for the tip Frank, great news and impressive GI animations! By coincidence I've been toying with this Sponza scene lately with other renderers like Luxrender and Cycles for Blender. The image in these unbiased renderers starts very noisy and progressively improves until the noise is

Re: news about v 8:) // any news about realease date V 8 ?

Hi Aidan, Yes, Blender's feature set is impressive and people have made large animations with it: Sintel, Elephant's Dream etc.. My main problem is its interface, I can never find stuff... I want to expand my toolkit and use it next to RS in the pipeline, it's not this-is-better-than-that.

Re: DynAtomic for Realsoft3D 64 Bit Released

Yes, DynAtomic seems to work on V6, both 32 and 64 bit, but it is unsupported. I may post a detailed procedure on how to setup this if there are enough requests. Me too! Still on V6 and 32bit... Time to make DA animations, I have some free time now ;) thanks, Mark H

Re: DynAtomic for Realsoft3D 64 Bit Released

Lanzotti Il 04/10/2011 17:05, Mark Heuymans ha scritto: That's quick Carlo, thanks! I installed it manually, it seems to be working except the samples (crash!). Now I'll have to refresh my memory and study the manual again... and practice ;) cheers, Mark H

Re: best export file format including textures?

bericht- Van: owner-l...@light.realsoft3d.com [mailto:owner- l...@light.realsoft3d.com] Namens Mark Heuymans Verzonden: zaterdag 4 juni 2011 21:51 Aan: Reallist Onderwerp: best export file format including textures? Hi all, Please refresh my memory: can RS3d export files like .obj including UV

best export file format including textures?

Hi all, Please refresh my memory: can RS3d export files like .obj including UV-mapped textures? I know .obj import is perfect, but the other way around..? V6.1. I'm asking this because I want to make some of my free stuff available to a wider audience... thanks, Mark H

Re: question from the past.. real3d 3.5

On 17-5-2011 19:44, Lorenzo Pistone wrote: Hi Mark, Thank you for the advice. I changed the undo to 0 and changed also some configuration option of the emulator giving a lot of megabytes for every kind of memory, like zorro3, chip mem, fast mem and so on and now it render to file at 1920x1080.

Re: preview updated website

More stuff added: - island and soap bubbles available for download - that hatch in the cellar is finally accessible - implemented special Cave/Earth navigation arrows - some other updates and forum posts Now, some work on the cave and then connect the worlds! enjoy, Mark H www.athanor3d.com

Re: question from the past.. real3d 3.5

On 16-5-2011 21:53, Lorenzo Pistone wrote: I'm sorry Vesa, but the button do not exist in the amiga version, it's in the Windows version, I know because I have the full version for Amiga and the demo version for Windows. If there is a way to set the memory usage is not that button, for what I

Re: DynAtomic forthcoming release

So does that mean ONLY v7? Such a shame for many of us v6 users. You can say that :( I think I'll skip V7 altogether and go straight for V8... and get a decent 64bit workstation class machine that it deserves to be run on. If cash flow permits. -Mark H

preview updated website

Working on it... the Realsoft room has been updated: http://www.athanor3d.com/RSroom1/RSroom04a1.html You can already see some projects: - the old VSL (c)rust tutorial which has to be updated - soap bubbles with animated material and simulated movement (see animation on youtube) - the dirty

updated website

Hi all, I've been working on my site www.athanor3d.com, everything made with Realsoft3d by me. Go for the hi-res version, the low-res hasn't been updated yet. It's more like a pointclick game than a website, a lot of work for one man... All the hall and cellar pictures are GI; the expo, entry

Re: updated website

Sorry to be such a hardhead ;) But I even dug up some old posts about this in the archives when resuming work on it, your suggestions are not forgotten and appreciated! Anyway, the concept and 3d modeling/rendering are 95% of the time; the 2d, slicing up and linking together are just an

Re: updated website

Thanks, hmm you have a point, I'll look look for another guestbook. I'll disable this one immediately. -Mark H Very nice... Reminds me of Myst. Are you going to include a simple 'quest', and some puzzles? ;-) BTW, I signed the guest book. Are guests' email addresses safe from spam? I

Re: DynAtomic to be Released soon, and it will be FREE

Dear Realsoft3D users, After many years of crunching we at DynaDream comes to a conclusion: DynAtomic http://www.dynadream.com/ddweb/index.php/DynAtomic for Realsoft3D http://realsoft.com will be released as a FREE version during the next week. While some features are omitted, this version

Re: Pixar Disney libraries, plus Ptex

I found these links on Hacker News (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2486841): http://graphics.pixar.com/library/ http://www.disneyanimation.com/library/list.html Many fascinating papers! Also, information about Disney's open-source Ptex texture mapping system, which has some advantages

Re: About calling external program from javascript.

Hello list. I am looking for an alternative to the following features. I want your advice. Best regards, K-UDA var url =http://tepco-usage-api.appspot.com/latest.json;; var doc = new ActiveXObject(MSXML2.XMLHTTP); doc.open(GET, url, false); doc.send(); var aStatus = eval(( + doc.responseText +

Re: Good old time

Ahhh, Real3d 1.4 on the Amiga, that's how I started 3d... (Rayshade not counting) When I just got Real3d I completely lost track of time and missed a whole day, missing important appointments! we're getting old, Mark H http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMAQC5mp8xk Jean-Sebastien Perron

Re: SDK/ sites down/ frustration/Realsoft

and most things in RS are floating point double precision. Just post the formulas and I'll try to translate it into VSL! regards, Mark Heuymans

Re: Just a GPU heads-up

Op 4-10-2010 19:10, Vesa Meskanen schreef: Hi, ...an interesting article about GPU processing solutions which, as a networking attached device, has potential for cross-platform render engines... Thanks for the link, Lee. It is an interesting article. Best regads, Vesa Yes nice link

Re: Dynadream lookalike (4 try)

Many thanks for the replies. You are all right... It worked and work, just found this old DynAtomic test anims (2002-2005 circa): http://bit.ly/9L8fau Thanks again for the support. P.S. This is the 4rd try sending this mail... Best Regards, Carlo Lanzotti DynaDream - Dynamic

Re: Dynadream lookalike?

Hi Mark and all, Were you and Arjo part of the beta test team? Does anyone have any work they can show from testing, such as your references to Arjo's work with pigs :) Hi Brandon, Yes, here is some of the stuff I've done as a DA beta tester:

Re: {Spam?} rs3d 5

I cant for the life of make this work clipmap loaded from the library my own texture loaded then preview either shows a white ball or dissapears when I play around with clip from and clip to what am I doing wrong? tia Alasdair Hard to tell without more info... do you want to clip the

Re: Ray tracing is the future and it will always be

It is really really easy to make RS compatible with anything. If RS would sign a NDA with me I could show them everything. As long as they credit me for the finding. On the other hand the solution involve a lot more responsibility on the user : sudden unlimited power is difficult to manage.

Re: fruit anim update

Thanks guys! I should have shown it earlier. Time to start work on the RS room, dig up some old projects to share.. -Mark Hi Neil Thx.. Its always fun to go through post from the past, and bring them to the surface again, as there are so many gems like this one by Mark and the one from

Re: fruit anim update

Hi Stefan, Yes, the editing was done by Michiel Los (Dynamisch in Beeld). This material is copyrighted but I guess I can show a sneak view http://www.athanor3d.com/3dstuff/herofruit.wmv So list, please don't spread or save it. There's still a tiny chance there will be a followup. I hope all

Re: cellar update

Hi Fredrik, Catching up after a short absence... Wow, yes please I'll have to study the code now that you put all this work into it! My method belongs in the dinosaur age but hey, it works ;) Meanwhile I rendered a few more cellar images, I'd like to make the navigation more intuitive and

Re: Fryrender plugin support

Nice one Arjo! An image of that quality would probably take hours for RS, requiring high raycount and low blur... Many projects of mine rely heavily on procedural VSL materials, external renderers are out of the question. My cellar is Boolean, the tiles are procedural to avoid repetition

Re: cellar update

Thanks for the offer Fredrik! I can't ask you to do the whole site but we can try this out for the Realsoft-specific room (second one at the right in the hall)! Why not make this a kind of collaborative thing among RS users, we can put all kinds of public projects in there. Materials, models,

Re: cellar update

Hi Neil, I made a lower resolution version, you can now pick between full size and small size on the new startpage www.athanor3d.com. It's only five minutes of extra work for a node, so why not. I also tried your suggestion to make all tables and cells 100%. This works in principle, but in

Re: cellar update

I'll have to do some learning here, my webskills are very limited... But the 3d part is much more work anyway. I'm glad I finally got this far after years of postponing! The only bad thing is that I now have so much free time to do it :( thanks for the tip Fredrik, Mark H Did you consider

Re: cellar update

Ah, thanks for the tips! I´ll keep this in mind for a future overhaul. Nice room with the spiral stairs, a RS rendering I hope. -Mark maybe use javascript to scale the images like the backgrounds here: http://sesw.the-final.ws/ (ok is under construction, too ;-) needs some rework for ie7

Re: cellar update

Op 30-6-2010 14:17, Beg-inner schreef: Hi Mark.. The site really comes along very nicely ! Very cool mood to hall and cellar, and cool valve arch shapes in that cellar.. Looking forward to those prjs and tuts.! Maybe abit outlandish.. but how about having visible hightech Teleporters ,

Re: QuickTime Mov file - latest episode.

Wow Neil, I can hardly believe you pulled that off on your own! The storyline eludes me a bit but it's great to see such an epic animation done completely in RS. The moving platform is a clever choice - making the robot walk would be a huge task indeed, more work that everything else put

Re: website WIP

Op 26-5-2010 2:45, Jean-Sebastien Perron schreef: Wow, it's beautiful. That's the style I like (bright and colorful). It's slow, but that was expected with that much graphics. That was worth the loading. I don't know if it can help, but I did a website in full 3D like that 3 years ago for one

Re: website WIP

I had some Portals planned already, anything can happen in Cyberspace :) How about when the go go through the door, they get to someplace completely other. A space craft store room with models as holograms on the shelves along with mops and stuff. A moonscape with the models in orbit ...

Re: website WIP

Thanks for all the nice comments! I'll keep in mind the suggestions for improvement and hopefully I won't get sidetracked ;) cheers, Mark H

website WIP

Hi all, I finally put some serious work into my site, the expo part is nearing completion - only Abuja has a pop-up portfolio but the rest will follow in a few days. No need to mention that everything 3d was made with Realsoft3d ;) At the end of the hall I'm planning a big room dedicated to

Re: {Spam?} Re: My lastest picture

Op 14-5-2010 22:27, Neil Cooke schreef: Cool, Whatever on the red sun, obviously you're happy with it. Yep, I use absolute white for objects that are meant to be seen as light emitting. I need to show red lights and other coloured lights now and then of course, but desperately search for

animated nurbs material

Hi all, Here's the material I promised a few days earlier, it's applied to nurbs curves. The project contains only objects, materials and channels. It's a kind of lightshow, a pattern that moves along the curve. Size and speed of the pattern is controllable, even per curve individually! I

Re: My lastest picture

Op 11-5-2010 22:46, leee schreef: My latest picture: http://www.spatial.plus.com/Realsoft3D/im_AlienLandscape-000-000-003.jpg Realsoft3D V6.1 for Linux. It actually just started off as an experiment with vsl volumetric clouds (there are two cloud layers, one noise based and the other cell

Re: Ignore Test

this week after a bit of polishing and a small tut. Congrats, Mark Heuymans

Re: Stereoscopic panoramas + my 1st opensource project

I hope that will work out well, Riven is still an inspiration to me! Even my rudimentary website (but big in my head :) ) is based on pre-rendered games like that. I hope your code will support html and Javascript, so that we can make online games/websites. Thanks for the link, interesting

artificial evolution

Stumbled upon this, about evolutionary simulated bodypart control http://www.ted.com/talks/torsten_reil_studies_biology_to_make_animation.html Reil was probably inspired by Karl Sims http://www.karlsims.com/ John Holland is also a pioneer in the field. Imagine something like this: Chrono

Re: Four Episodes sorted.

Wow Neil, a huge project - hard to imagine these are just trailers! Thanks for the inspiration, Mark H A couple of you wanted any updates on my efforts. Four trailers now posted and some improvements here and there. Sound track in the background - very basic but it helps. New logo brand

Re: stereoscopic imagery

My friend got a headache too but I did not, despite my bad eyesight. Yes, maybe it has to do with the difference between eye focus and camera focus that's fixed in the image. Holography would be the next step but that's probably far away, especially holographic rendering (does that exist

stereoscopic imagery

Hi all, I saw Avatar in 3d last week, wow - total immersion! Rendering stereo images with RS is easy, but viewing it comfortably is another matter. You can view the attached image by crossing your eyes until the two images merge and 'click', but it requires some practice and it can cause

Re: stereoscopic imagery

Op 7-2-2010 20:19, Neil Cooke schreef: Two cents worth ... Stereoscopic entertainment history shows it as a fad type of thing. It comes along gets all hot and fired then fades to zero. Yes, like quadraphony. Maybe this time it will break through, hard to tell. But it will double render

Re: internal reflections

for me the trick with all abstract and semi-abstract graphics is whether it connects. I have seen shows with walls of empty abstraction and yet one, one of the pieces will do it for me. The issue in one case was when I asked the folk I was with to rate the exhibits without consulting me or

internal reflections

Hi all, In 2009 I've been revisiting internal reflections and 'Wada basins' (thanks and cheers to Charles Henry of course!). One example, scaled down from 3000 pixels wide.: http://www.athanor3d.com/pub/restore03c1small.jpg These things are too impractical to do in real life, but RS is the

Re: Fw: Trailer Number Two - Quicktime

... a single person to model, light, animate and edit this seems to me to be the point. A complete storyline of about ten minutes run time, laid down in two weeks. No sound and not the final render format but my idea here is that I have a viable promotion .avi/.mov to sell from in the

Re: strange error: Pointwise object property...

Hi, With V7 on the doorstep it's no big deal - hopefully... That's right, v7 will fix this error :) We are just building a new version, and hopefully it will be the actual release. Kind regards, Vesa Great! I hope in 2010 I can run V7 on a beefy 64-bit system. Thanks good luck, Mark

Re: strange error: Pointwise object property...

Hi Frank, Unfortunately I can't share this project, it's something 'official' but I've seen it pop up elsewhere. No scripting involved. Indeed it's something in the render engine. Trouble is, Í can't put my finger on it, it seems random. Some more detective work needed, I prefer consistent

strange error: Pointwise object property...

. Any workarounds or ideas? Tia, Mark Heuymans

Re: The Field Evaluator again

Hi Mark.. Did you see this...? Its handy for placing things on the Displaced surfaces and so on.. Yes confirmed, it works - I never would have thought the Lattice Paste tool takes displacement into account, this is undocumented as far as I know! And even without the FE ;) Thanks,

Re: The Field Evaluator again

Hi all and the RS-Team ;-) Marks scene is another good example for the usage of the field evaluator. Placement of the mushrooms. My idea is: Drop Mushroom in a level. Move the mushroom level over the ground with draw on surface snapping and let the field evaluator add the given displacement

Re: cave WIP

I checked out the 3d Coat demo and at first glance it looks awesome. After fiddling a bit I could produce crazy complex stalagmites in minutes that would have been impossible or at least very time consuming with the RS SDS toolkit. SDS is great for modeling many, many things but not

Re: cave WIP

I overlooked that animation - thanks for the reminder! Nice to know its output (.obj I assume) is useful to RS, on paper it's ok but you never know how it turns out in practice. Thanks and great work with the flipbook too, -Mark H Hi Mark, have a look here:

Re: Simple QT ;-)

I think you are right about the RealRangeZ plugin. Try to change a thousand objects manually, that's a boring task... an essential script, I'll dig that up too. Found it: http://www.catmtn.com/rr/realgreeblez/real_rangez_examples.html Thankz, Mark H

cave WIP

rendering power back, it's been reduced to a third for some weeks now. The AA undersampling 'cheating' shows in the flickering ;) Happy rendering! -Mark Heuymans

Re: input plane vs. view window

Where are view ports and their behavior described in detail, where in the manual. This seems such a basic thing for me to not understand...manual page? Reference Manual / Realsoft3D / Models / Geometric Objects / Geometric Primitives / Input Plane , quote: Input Plane The input plane

Re: Opengl view

Thanks, it's a heavy render job, I'm at frame 100 out of 400 now... My quadcore broke down last week after only a year of usage, so I'm back at one third of the rendering power until it's back :( -Mark Hi Mark, Nice atmosphere in that image. Curious how the animation is going to look like.

Re: Opengl view

Hi Why the objects in the OpenGl View are not correct ? The render is ok but objects show me a lot of crease in the OpenGl View ... Phil Even despite improvements since V6, RS has never been the best at realtime shaded view... analytic booleans often don't show up in a useful way.

Re: V7 release date yet? Field Evalutator..

I had a fast look at your Fade issue.. and it seems buggy. Though materials and rendering is not the area I am good at (if any hehe=) Here is what I found out.. Yep you only have to move (or scale or anything that change so at least some surface part of the two objects differs) the 2nd

Re: Revolution 4D and Chrono

Hi What about Revolution 4D and Chrono development for 7 release ? thanks for the answer Phil (New old user of Realsoft 6.1) Good question, I'm one of only a few Chrono users. And how about Dynatomics, is it ever going to see the light? Years ago, as a beta tester I built a fully

Re: The end of the development of Realman.

is the Mandelbrot shader. It was great fun to do that procedurally within RS! Thanks for sharing the news, and hats off to Richard Swingwood, - Mark Heuymans PS looking forward to V7, nice to see improved particles

Re: Update on my website and complaining

For more infos on my future software i added a Project Status section at the bottom of the previous text for the curious. www.CombadZ.com While further reading about renderman, I found that Realsoft has many similarities. Please tell me if you find me annoying about my software. Hi

Re: Updated scripts

All of the Realsoft Reserve scripts have been updated! Details here: http://www.catmtn.com/rr/realgreeblez/download.php Any and all testing results and feedback would be greatly appreciated. Zaug Jason, Bernie and Stefan, Sorry so slow to respond. Thanks for the nice words; hope you

Re: ivygen to rs3d

Hi all :) thank you for your help - at last my ivy look like ivy Woo Hoo Alasdair Thanks for saving it from the void Chris ;) Please show some results when ready Alasdair! -Mark

Re: animation

Arjo, thanks for the detailed explanations, this mail goes into the archive! I'll have to invest in software to keep up... -Mark Thank you all for the kind words! @Mark: Motion blur has been done with the ReelSmart Motion Blur plugin for After Effects. This is a very nice

Re: animation

Nice, very smooth and detailed animation! Motion blur, excellent AA... Was it scaled down? I wonder if this would be renderable in RS, or is it too slow... BTW the mill you showed earlier is great too :) forgot to congratulate you... -Mark Hi, Some of you asked to show the animation

Re: trees

Wow Arjo, very realistic! The Plant tool is so sophisticated that we're now using RS as a plant generator to use in other software (which sw did you use to render this, if I may ask?). Can't wait to see the animation! The only problem is the typical boring Dutch landscape ;) -Mark Hi,

Re: movie

Thanks for the tip, interesting stuff and excellent quality! Coincidentally, I just picked up working with internal reflections inside Platonic bodies and spheres, really crazy complex fractals! -Mark H ...a friend sent me a mail about his educative math movie...very interesting

Re: old musicvideos - done with real3d - amiga4000

Hello list, i found some old musicvideos on youtube, all done by me (not the music, of course) in the late 90s on my old amiga 4000/60 (and some other amigas) with the good old real3d v3:-) maybe somebody have fun watching this historic stuff:-) Seriously good work Tijai, nice to see

Re: New Chrono released

Hello, I noticed the new version is almost half the size of the old, should it be installed over the old version or is it a complete version and a fresh install is possible? The setup includes all required components. A fresh install is possible. Kind regards, Vesa It works like a

Re: qt: refraction + last little scene with glas/ice texture :-)

Hi Frank, I wish VSL would use the more familiar Refraction Index instead of this 'optical thickness'. Conversion: Refraction Index = 1 / (1-optical thickness) or optical thickness = 1 - 1/refraction index I found a table with refraction index values for several substances (for yellow light):

Re: Some QT

Hi Mark and others, I got this information about this work around for getting Chrono to help under v6, I hope it helps. Like I said, I haven't tested it extensively The current release of Chrono can work under V6, but it requires some manual changes to the installation (in fact the

RE: Some QT

Just below the bit you quoted: Chrono::R3D is also compatible with Realsoft3D v.6. :) http://www.deltaknowledge.com/chrono/requirements.php Ouch, completely missed that ;) -Mark

Re: Chrono for v6

Hello, A new, fully v6 compatible Chrono will be release in the near future. It will fix the discussed installation and program startup errors, among other things. Kind regards, Vesa Great, I hope those little GUI issues will be fixed too. Thanks, it's a great addition to the

Re: Some QT

Hi Thom, It says on the deltaknowledge site that Chrono is working with v6. Huh? Can't find that, I copy/paste: The software Realsoft3D v.5 must be already correctly installed into your system! (We suggest to install also the service pack SP4 for Realsoft3D v.5) I have installed it ok

Re: Some QT

Hi all, some QT. Is the maker of the Dabi shaders (Pat) still alive ? Hi Matthias, Good question, you mean Patrick Brady? He shared huge collections of interesting textures and materials, and I still have a Mercedes lying around he gave me when I won some little contest. Let's hope

Re: last little scene with glas/ice texture :-)

dear mark, oh yes, wonderful, I am curious how to build new vsl shader, cause of the learning curve myself! ;-) thanks for the tipps and your critics... you said channel ray*normal to Reflection directly with a Curve object, with horizontal range (ray*normal: the angle between camera and

Re: last little scene with glas/ice texture :-)

dear mark, short interrupt... ps: do you have the example as a realsoft v5 file? (damned, just working with v5, sorry)... no, it's a good idea to work with the negative values to reflect the ray... I will check it if I can open your file:-) see you, best regards, Frank It's a V6

Re: last little scene with glas/ice texture :-)

hello again, dear realsoft friends: a little new picture with ice/glass textures... I will build now a bigger scene with various vsl shaders and nurbs objects, perhaps I can create an icecream pot :-) added picture: ... rendering times: 3:56, image size 640x480, recursion depth 4, two

Re: foresr

That's some forest Arjo, thanks for showing! Interesting trick to use a twig texture instead of a single leaf, you also see similar methods in games. A tip for big complex plant builders: If you get a message like 'cannot allocate . bytes' , try to save your project, quit RS, restart and

Re: foresr

Hi Neil, It can also happen when Undo = 0, I usually disable it when working with big objects like plants. I've been working without Undo for days without missing it! In real life there's no undo... Anyway, don't be alarmed by the odd error message, -Mark Hi Mark 'cannot allocate .

Re: trees

Hi Arjo, Yes, the new Plant tool is really addictive, I spent whole evenings fiddling with parameters! Has to be one of the most advanced plant generating tools around. They are memory-hungry but by careful tuning I managed to generate and render pretty complex trees on a 2.5 GB 32bit system.

Re: trees

OK, here are a few birch modifications: http://www.athanor3d.com/pub/birch03c1.jpg http://www.athanor3d.com/pub/birch03d1.jpg I'll upload some project files with a translucent leaf shader if anyone is interested. -Mark Cool guys! Lets see some images! :) Have a great day, Daniel

Re: Service Pack 1, for Realsoft 3D V6 released.

for commercial projects already). The RS implementation of parametric objects for Buildings, Plants and other brilliant stuff like the Packer is fantastic, but I had some problems with pure performance (stability/editing speed). Let's hope SP1 will address some of these issues! Cheers, Mark

Re: A .3DS import tutorial attempt with Wink....

Hello All, I have made a tutorial concerning importing the Sponza Atrium GI scene, utilizing the Wink .swf authoring software. It is far from perfect, but shows some of the potential of this great FREE! application. Addtionally, I learned a great deal about the process and am writing up

Re: GI rendering artifact fix

As you can see in the attached pic, I am getting the white blur around the edges of the tyres on the floor. Yes, I remember this one - it is a surface normal issue. Rotate the floor surface 180 degrees to fix the problem. You can also flip the normal direction in the material assigned to the

Re: landscaping (Re: Can We Export RS3D Camera Data ?)

Thanks everyone, I'll upload the materials as soon as I've polished them a bit (adding a GUI and simplifying/optimizing them). I've been working hard on the rock layers material but I'm not happy enough with it yet! BTW I recapitulated the World Machine - HDRShop - RS3d pipeline, things

Re: Landscape experiments - a render

Here's : Stylized render of a USGS .DEM (Alaskan ,USA) . Foreground is Cook Inlet , then Anchorage , mountains in background . MT. Gordon Lyon is the peak near center-right . http://www.studiodynamics.net/list/alaska.html 90KB cheers garry Nice one, including texturing! cheers,

landscaping (Re: Can We Export RS3D Camera Data ?)

Hi Mark : Yes , HDRI seems to work very well for displacements . RS wasn't really designed for landscaping but it's so flexible that much is possible if you stretch it a bit ;) I'll dig up some of these projects and re-install World Machine and the conversion SW to see if I can replicate

Re: Can We Export RS3D Camera Data ?

I have a project file (no readme.txt) that shows an HDRI image for displacement mapping . Is that yours ? Where did you get the bitmap ? Any info to share on this ? cheers garry Yes that must be mine, I generated that image in World Machine to see if it's better than .bmp for

Re: Can We Export RS3D Camera Data ?

Hi Mark : As I said , we love this S/W and so should speak up about things that are not doing RSV6 any good . I wasn't putting it down , just pointing out the obvious flaws that some of the inner circle people seem to love to ignore . Hi Garry, Maybe they get used to these flaws too

Re: Can We Export RS3D Camera Data ?

It's best , I think , that we do speak up , and not try to focus on being a very good boy . It's best for the Realsoft3D in the long run , in the bigger picture . Hi Garry list, True. I've always liked the software but I had my share of hairpulling too. I had high hopes of the advertized

Re: New Tutorial Uploaded -- SDS Texturing Using The UV-Image Tool

Long tutorial , but any mistakes noticed and reported (preferably here) , would be greatly appreciated . http://www.studiodynamics.net/uv/uv_image_tut.html Forum thread is here : http://tinyurl.com/49lvo7 studio Great (and big) job Garry, very inspirational! A few times you mention

more procedural concrete

I guess selection on objects should be possible. Maybe how the selective lighting works. Arjo. Yes, that's the next step... I also remember something about object ID, I'll check it out. Meanwhile, I added cracks to go along with the discoloration. Maybe it's too slow for practical use...

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