... Hmm. I think I recall we compared them against Lightwave at various anti-aliasing settings as well, and we found that LW with no AA was faster, since we...
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Adam Hauldren
nlightuk
Sep 8, 2009 3:43 am
... Okay - I can't find that original message thread in my archives. I distinctly remember doing tests on the render speed of different 3DO settings within...
34198
Adam Hauldren
nlightuk
Sep 8, 2009 4:12 am
... Another good point is that other rendering engines are often multithreaded, giving the impression that they are faster to render, whilst leveraging the...
34199
Chris 'Xenon'...
xenonofarcticus
Sep 8, 2009 4:38 am
... Ah well, there is that. Sigh. -- Chris 'Xenon' Hanson | Xenon @ 3D Nature | http://www.3DNature.com/ 3D Earth: http://3d-earth.net/...
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davifi21
Sep 8, 2009 5:14 pm
What if I use Superconducter, run from a machine with Windows XP, to control renders on a PC with Vista64? Is there any reason I wouldn't be able to take...
34201
billisenberger
Sep 8, 2009 5:16 pm
... Sorry I've missed the discussion. Adam was correct that the speed takes a hit when generating shadow maps. I was doing a render with a landsat image draped...
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Chris 'Xenon'...
xenonofarcticus
Sep 8, 2009 5:49 pm
... I think that will work, yes. ... That is undecided at this point. Very few people use WCS these days, so obviously that's where we are focusing. I haven't...
34203
Ev Wingert
crlamac
Sep 8, 2009 6:02 pm
... Kind of been waiting for this to come up. It will be sad if WCS just drifts away for new OS's. My teaching lab cannot afford multiple seats for VNS as much...
34204
Chris 'Xenon'...
xenonofarcticus
Sep 8, 2009 6:11 pm
... Remember, WCS 6 does work under Vista, just not Vista-64. We still haven't made a final decision, but right now, we don't sell enough WCS units to make...
34205
Ev Wingert
crlamac
Sep 8, 2009 6:23 pm
UHM is bypassing Vista altogether and waiting to see what happens with 7. ... I certainly understand the economics of a small business, sharing my home office...
34206
Adam Hauldren
nlightuk
Sep 8, 2009 8:28 pm
... Hmmm...well in defense of the software, that may very well have been due to your choice of shadow settings. I can set up pretty much any piece of rendering...
34207
billisenberger
Sep 9, 2009 1:04 pm
... Hi Adam, don't get me wrong. I love VNS for working with large GIS data sets. If you could share the settings that can be tweaked for rendering 3d object...
34208
billisenberger
Sep 9, 2009 1:36 pm
... For additional information the scene I was working on consisted of 90 meter SRTM data covering an area approximatly 470x350 kilometers, a Color Map image...
34209
Scott Cherba
rscottcherba
Sep 9, 2009 3:25 pm
... I know from many years' experience that the 3DN support team places a high priority on promptly replying to support requests. If you received no response,...
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Adam Hauldren
nlightuk
Sep 9, 2009 11:54 pm
... I don't think I did ;) ... Each project will have its own requirements. But there are some general issues to observe: - vector bound shadows with as small...
34211
billisenberger
Sep 10, 2009 11:12 am
... Thanks Scott, This is good to know. Whenever I talked to 3D Nature on the phone they were always very helpful and responsive. Bill...
34212
billisenberger
Sep 10, 2009 11:15 am
... Thanks for the detailed information Adam. 14 seconds that's incredible. When I get the time I'll go back to the project and try your suggestions. Right now...
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David Osti
freestyle000...
Sep 10, 2009 3:23 pm
Hello List, I'm running an animation that comes up to an area where I have a lot of vegetation. When using the distance dissolve, there is a strong contrast...
34214
Chris 'Xenon'...
xenonofarcticus
Sep 10, 2009 3:49 pm
... The renderer actually already does use a dissolve zone rather than a hard-edge disappear point. The trick with distance dissolve is to make the dissolve...
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David Osti
freestyle000...
Sep 10, 2009 3:57 pm
I will try to create a better dissolve texture. See attached for some images. David Osti 34 North 310-628-9944 david@... From: wcsml@yahoogroups.com...
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Chris 'Xenon'...
xenonofarcticus
Sep 10, 2009 5:21 pm
... You have to upload it to the files section, the list strips attachments. -- Chris 'Xenon' Hanson | Xenon @ 3D Nature | http://www.3DNature.com/ SketchUp...
34217
wcsml@yahoogroups.com
Sep 10, 2009 6:01 pm
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the wcsml group. File :...
34218
Chris 'Xenon'...
xenonofarcticus
Sep 10, 2009 6:14 pm
... So, in the image, please explain what is dissolving to what. -- Chris 'Xenon' Hanson | Xenon @ 3D Nature | http://www.3DNature.com/ 3D World Maps:...
34219
freestyle00072000
freestyle000...
Sep 10, 2009 6:37 pm
... About a 1/5 of the way down from the top, to the right of the long straight canal, is where the dissolve is taking place. It is dissolving into the aerial...
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Chris 'Xenon'...
xenonofarcticus
Sep 10, 2009 6:50 pm
... And so the grey-ish color is the color for that sort of vegetation as seen in the airphoto? yeah, they are quite different. I would use a fractal noise...
34221
freestyle00072000
freestyle000...
Sep 10, 2009 6:57 pm
... Thanks Chris, I'll give that a go. David...
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Adam Hauldren
nlightuk
Sep 10, 2009 10:12 pm
... Alternatively, you might want to try tinting your foliage with the underlying colors of the aerial image. Add a color control attribute to the foliage...
34223
billisenberger
Sep 12, 2009 5:15 pm
... Adam, I tried your settings and they made a huge difference (very straightforward I might add). My 3d objects are elongated square boxes. The side facing...
34224
Adam Hauldren
nlightuk
Sep 13, 2009 1:42 am
... Good to hear. ... ;) ... Just increase the shadow offset value on the shadows page of the 3DO editor. Your objects are quite large, so I suspect you will...
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Adam Hauldren
nlightuk
Sep 15, 2009 9:40 am
...and the team at the Manhatta Project: http://www.themanhattaproject.org We first saw some of the artwork back in April on the NatGeo site, but I just...
