At 01:19 AM 6/21/2006 +0100, you wrote:
Hi Mark / List,
"What comes to mind first is: is it possible to export .obj from RS with
textures (texturing done in RS)??"
YES - in a word. I exported OBJs from RS to Messiah with textures - isssh
:) - Thanks to Matthias.
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Hi Aidan,
Nice to know! Although I have/use neither Messiah or LW it's good to know
there's a workaround. Long live the .obj plugin: RS would be a lot more
isolated without it!
A more direct way would be better though - I don't want to have to buy big
software like LW or Max just for import/export.
The textures / materials editor AND the Terrain Editor AND the Plant
Editor in VUE are great though for an outdoor type look - walls, rocks,
plants etc. As i stated in the previous mail - RSes OBJ exporter is a
saviour here as setting it up properly can give you the smoothed SDS
surfaces you created in RS and separated mesh components in an app like
VUE for later texturing.
Here is a further render with more objects in my alley scene:
http://tidalsound.com/3dstuff/streetvue4.jpg
In VUE this Scene has 358,872 Polygons and takes 15 minutes to render
including the GI and env map behind.
Nice experiment! Is the environment HDR?
Rendering quality is pretty 'blobby' though - like a RS render with too
low Raycount and not enough blur. I bet a really good VUE render would take
an hour or more - good news to a RS hermit ;)
And: RS isn't too bad at rendering high polygon scenes; I have more trouble
with the *editing* of scenes containing them! Every action is delayed to a
point that it's becoming unbearably slow. Workaround: add the high poly
objects at the last moment, after the editing of the rest, and then render
the projects.
The main reason to move the Street Scene to VUE was the 3D Vegetation
which I wish to add. But I also love the idea of using / interchanging
between different apps to get the best out of each.
Cheers
Aidan
I'm now working on an outdoor architectural project with a garden: some
older RS tree scenes revisited... deadline: one day left. No time to learn
Vue so I'll have to fall back to RS again, it can handle a few plants ;)
more to follow,
-Mark H
