just answering one of your many questions. The Glow property in XSI is mental ray only. To my knowledge there is no equivalent in redshift (a 2D glow). Redshift does "glows" in a physical way, meaning with volume shaders. That might be overkill just to have a simple glow on objects. Glows, sparkles etc are usually done in comp. Or Photoshop maybe, if it's a still rendering.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nicole Beeckmans-Jacqmain Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2017 5:14 PM To: Official Softimage Users Mailing List. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/xsi_list Subject: Re: Redshift_plugged_into_XSI Hi. I thought hearing Sven three days ago telling me it was 25.4 and not 2.45 to devide with: it was a Bonne Nouvelle, a Feast!! I have nevertheless, down loaded Redhsift demo so far, but cannot seem to be able to get the "glow" that I used to render a star for instance, in Mental Ray and XSI. Do you know by chance how to quickly set Redshift to compute the "glow" property? Learning Redshift seems more difficult than Mental Ray at the moment for me. I am in a hurry for the book. Besides I am interested, to seek Redshift vista on this, because in Mental Ray, with my limits in knowledge, the Glows I rendered have this striking limit between what part in the image is affected by the glow, and what not. Do you see a way to soften the glow/non-glow difference? --> Either Mental Ray, & what about Redshift? Also do you know a quick way to re-assign textures files to meshes when you change computer to access Softimage files? (I can do that manually, it's okay, and tried via "external files" but got stuck with "string to search", "strings to replace" ? do not know what to put there, and cannot understand if it's worth the pain, or if doing everything by hand is just not quicker... ''''''''''''' anyway to answer your question, i am publishing a book next october2017. i was working this last June with one of the best graphist in Town, and it's his and the "maison d'édition" decision, aswell as mine, to do all the cover of the book recto verso, and in between pages (c1-c2-c3-c4 etc) -> 6pages of 20cm -> 1200mm, and its going to be processed by a professionnal printer. so 300dpi is ok, its not a poster. i'll let you know if i stumble upon other and new questions, and when the book will be about to be published, i am sure it can be of interest to freelancer, or directors in 3d, when i'll give you an invite on a website (this summer), or a quick way of having book sent to you via amazon or stuffs. thank you for your time!! regards, Nicol. ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' 2017-07-05 11:16 GMT+02:00 Rob Wuijster <[email protected]>: Rendering for print with 300dpi will get you into trouble really quickly when the size of the deliverable goes up. A while ago I was asked to deliver a render/PS file for a banner, and with the 300dpi request PS wasn't able to create the file as it was too large. With some discussing I was able to deliver in a regular 72 pdi and was able to keep the filesize and renders to a more manageable size. Most large format printers interpolate anyway, and calculate in lpi, not dpi. So always discuss the whole thing beforehand before starting ridiculous large renders that make no sense. And the render a bit lower and rescale/sharpen in PS tip from Morten will work most times, as 3D renders are very sharp by default. You can get away with a lot here. cheers! Rob Rob Wuijster E [email protected] \/-------------\/----------------\/ On 5-7-2017 10:56, Morten Bartholdy wrote: When you say a cover for a book publication and say 1200 x 250 mm, that is a very large book. Is it for a poster or banner perhaps? Anyway, having done a fair amount of renders for print, in my experience you rarely need to render bigger than 5-6.000 pixels wide even for large prints. The larger the final print, the further away people stand to look at it, so the relative viewing distance (relative to size of image) sort of remains the same. We recently rendered for A3 which is 5040 x 3564 pixels at 300 dpi and our client printed a A1 poster from it which was pretty sharp and clean even on closer inspection. BTW your calculations are a decimal off it seems - 1200 x 250 mm is 14.400 x 3000 pixels at 300 dpi. For posters and banners you can easily do with 150 dpi actual resolution. I would render something like 7200 x 1500 pixels and scale it up to 14400 pixels in Photoshop, apply a bit(!) of smart sharpen and deliver that. Good luck. Morten Den 3. juli 2017 klokken 01:12 skrev Nicole Beeckmans-Jacqmain <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]>: do you know of a good introduction to how to install add-ons on xsi? i have used the file>add-on>install and installed all versions of Redshift for softimage2011 till 2014sp2 this for user add-on, then aswell factory add-on. now even mental ray doesnot work anymore!! and Redshift doesnot even show up in render manager tabs. yet it seems installed. i think i will need help from somewhere. i will first need to uninstall what i did. § by the way i tell you about why i have decided to test/buy Redshift: my "client" want for a book publication, a cover with my old Softimage scenes(from a movie to be published aswell). big: 1200mm x 250mm i have learned by browsing that to get as required a dpi of 300 in TIFF ill compute to get a 144212,59 pixels on x & 30236,22 pixels on y resolution. [ 1221 x300 (dpi) / 2.54 + 256 x 300 (dpi) / 2.54 ] - mental ray was crashing, not even ready to compute one percent of that size it seemed. i got "unspecified errors red messages" so i was wondering knowing that Redshift is capable to do this, to add-on it. can you help me with a link or a handy intelligence of my inexperienced use of the machine? thank you a lot. 2017-07-03 0:29 GMT+02:00 Nicole Beeckmans-Jacqmain <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]>: ok sorry for talking before daring. happy night! Nicol. 2017-07-03 0:21 GMT+02:00 Nicole Beeckmans-Jacqmain <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]> : Hello List. I am sure you will want to deride my ignorance: I'have downloaded the demo version of Redshift v2.0 (for use with Softimage 2015 latest availabl)- I have never used a plug-in or an add-on - in my life.. I would not want to cause a destruction in my Softimage perfect install. the xsiaddonextractor, if i click on it, just opens as a commandprompt blackwindow a quarter of a second, then closes. same with "redshiftcompatibilitycheck" file. do i need to access the downloaded files via xsi instead? how so? i have Windows 8.1 with 64bits and a up-to-date computer. thank you for any help, Nicol. ------ Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. ------ Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. ------ Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm.
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