S. Houtzager

Hey folks, Trying to get to the bottom of this. With FZ V7, when exporting to fact "with" a texture map and importing into EI V9, it does not work. The material changes to a purple (always) and the map is not viewable in Electric Image. I tested it so that the map starts as a jpeg so no conversion has to happen. Tried this with FormZ V6.7 and it is the same. Here is a simple test. http://intuitionusa.com/1/formz.png Wondering if it is Electric Image's issue or FormZ?

Don't do a lot of medical animations but this one was fun. Had to noodle out a couple of things to make this animation. Click on "how it works" to see the second animation. Thanks for the help Tomas! http://femcerv.com/ might gross you out!

You just clipped me! When did you build that Windows machine?

Man this version is fast. On my 12 core mac it sees all the cores and all of the virtual cores. It is 3 times faster than my 4 core i7 iMac which I thought was very difficult to do. Even the shaders have a preview in the camera. Question, is the 2GB limit for a rendering a thing of the past? I hope that in the near future someone does a video tut on the new Photons and GI settings.

Hey bw, Did you try rendering out to the 32 bit camera? I use Dante a good bit myself.

Wow! What an impressive upgrade! The video on Facebook is Boss! I just bought it with my credit card. How long a wait until I can get the authorization code? I signed in as a guest to paypal to use my credit card.

Most impressive lighting Tomas! What sort of lighting did it take for those bugs? That is rotoscoped scene you rendered into correct?

Hey Dave, 3D ATL hasn't met since last Nov. Time to get something new on the docket for the fun of it. Sign-up on the meetup page to get a notification. http://www.meetup.com/3D-Atlanta-User-Group/

Hey Dave, Do those HDRIs come in sets of 3? lo rez for illuminating, etc. I would like to see a few samples of renderings done with the illuminators, just to get a taste of what they can do.

Cool Stuff Dave! Web site is svelte as well. Did ThinkIt do the site?

I did some tests last year and did not get any speed up in rendertime with solid state drives.

I have been testing that beta for a year and it is an awesome program. It is an overhaul of the program and is much leaner. It has some Sketch-up in its DNA. For those who do not know, all layering info and color of objects and names of objects comes thru from FormZ to EI. Creating meshed objects is a little different in that you have to create a smooth object and then convert that to a mesh.

I have the "Particle" socket that was made by EI copyright 2001. That must be basic.

"Lots" of little things with this one. Integrates better with the other apple devices if you have em. Only 20 bucks!

Hey Tomas, Have you tested out EI8 on Mountain Lion?

Hey Scott, Doesn't the Northern Lights Socket "Realflow" still work. I still have it but haven't tested it in years. It just imported the meshes, but that was when I could use Realflow for free.

The best outline animation out of EI that I have seen. Solid stuff.

Thanks, you know this shader renders extremely quickly because it is ignoring the lights in the scene. Makes doing interations very fast. Hey Tomas can you bump up the capacity of this forum for uploads? Each person only has 500k.

DId this one to show how this device works. Used the aSEM shader from triple D. http://www.intuitionusa.com/1/Xray2.jpg

Just learned this trick of the trade. You can render png still files out of EI to a Dropbox folder. After each frame uploads you can view it from your iphone, ipad, etc.

You could just use the free Dropbox. Upload a zip file to your dropbox public folder and after someone pays you send them the link. Change the link every so often.

Hey Alonzo, Why not just make the whole thing downloadable?

Very impressive Alonzo! You mentioned the arch viz market. I can see where that market could use finished animated people walking, talking that are ready to merge into a project. I always prefer 3d people to the animated 2d people you always see.

Thanks Richard! Good eye Alex. We tried to make the parts fly in horizontally but the way the parts assembled meant more of a vertical assembly. We wanted to keep the parts out of the camera until they were moving in but I let that slip for a few parts like the little turn knob.

These were done for a tradeshow to show the guts and bones of these 2 machines, They were rendered out HD to get all of the details. Work done with J. Villanova. http://intuitionusa.com/2_dyn.html http://intuitionusa.com/2_dyn400.html