S. Houtzager

I see them, thanks!

OK EI is running now! But camera is asking nicely for the file libiomp5md.dll.

So I need to install EI9.1 on windows 8. I went thru the install ok but when i start it I get the window about entering my launch code. I do that and hit enter and EI crashes every time. I know I have the dongle drivers and dongle in place. Any ideas? Steven Houtzager

What is going on! I am doing several snapshot renderings and not getting any kind of image. Camera starts up and it renders but the image disappears. There is no snapshot in the EI snapshot folder. It never is saved. This is with mac el capitan and 9.1. I was getting snapshots appear behind in EI but now they don't appear. thanks!

turbo and axyz are my favorites. I have the clerk from turbo and he is low polygon and axyz doesn't have the right person. I need to learn how to move a rigged person. Thanks.

I have searched and searched on turbosquid and metropoly and others for a clerk w a apron on doing some work. There are hundreds of business people and casual people but I am looking for a clerk moving some things around. Anyone seen this? Thanks. :)

To add to this thread, you can just lower the FOV settings for the camera. I use a setting of one to get ortho views.

Here is another thing I just discovered. To create a map out of an EI rendering, see image. Is that a spherical map... not sure. https://www.dropbox.com/s/c7rme53wxlxfp1o/longitude.png?dl=0 Steven Houtzager intuitionusa.com

Hey Alex, I import SW files all of the time using Rhino. Send it to me and I will try. I say try because .asm stands for assembly file. It needs the parts files as well. Steven Houtzager

Just thought I would share this. Never saw this before in all my years. Control Click (mac) on the arrow allow you adjust the Range of the slider. Who knew that? https://www.dropbox.com/s/au3a3sw96fw2z5b/control_click.png?dl=0

Maybe this will work. Go into the Render Information window and go into the Resolution tab. Set a "different" Aspect Ratio and then go to the aspect ratio that you want to render to. Sometimes the camera view does not match up with final render view and just needs a little help. Steven Houtzager intuitionusa.com

Try displacement instead. Or try having a light that is very low to catch the bump map. Bump and normal maps are a trick of the eye so I use them sparingly. Steven Houtzager

I have had good luck doing that with Path Finder and Swage. Could not get contortionist to work for me. I use FormZ and Rhino for my models.

Impeccable work! I like them all. I have a smart watch so I can have them all.

It would first need to be a light that has direction to it such as a parallel, cone, or area light. Just select the light, under constraint menu select "auto look" and then select the null in the pjt window.

Don't know the shortcut. There is a Crop tool in the tool palette to adjust the cropped area.

You can render a certain area over and over by using the Crop function. In the Render Settings and in the second tab "resolution" you can turn on crop. Is that what you are looking for?

This is really interesting work Mike. How is it progressing? I have seen some character modeling done straight out of Rhino but not much btw. Were there gold walls in the chamber?

It is just adding another shelf to this forum to put the resources. There are lots of posts already which could be housed in the Resources section.

Would be great if there were a Resources section to this forum. There are lots of resources that are useful to EI users and most forums have a Resources section. Would be cool to have a Materials section to this as well where people could download materials! ;)

Well I found that the GI was causing the irregularities in the front so I don't see a way to use the shader with GI. I was hopin. I could separate each side into a separate part.

Hey I have always struggled with getting a real looking brushed metal material and am seeing if Scratches will do the trick. Can anyone spot what is wrong via the attached image? The shader is aligned to the "whole" front part, which is all one piece. btw, there are brush marks on the very tops of the doors.

Very nice VR action!

Well after 15 years I have finally put together a new showreel. I have been avoiding the chore but not anymore. Lots of my animations are too small for this day and age : |. Nearly all of this is EI. http://intuitionusa.com/Popups_Animation/showreel.html

I vaguely remember a method of showing and hiding all the children of all of the parents in a file all at once. Is this possible or am I just dreaming?