rtrowbridge
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Some very nice work there. On flyby shots, is the showtime composited in at a later date so you can reuse the flyby? Or do you have to render it out completely every time you want to change shows?
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I'm looking forward to checking these out. Thanks for sharing!
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Daz3D is still giving Hexagon 2.5 away. You will have to export obj files, as FACT files aren't supported. The following YouTube channel has over 100 tutorials on using Hexagon located in four different playlists...
http://www.youtube.com/user/GeekatplayStudio/videos?flow=grid&view=1
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Check out Accutrans3D. You can download it at www.micromouse.ca. It is $20.00 shareware. It won't go to dwg, but it will do dxf. If that works for you, it's a great deal.
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Rob,
I'm using Modeler on my Windows 7 64-bit machine. Most of the drawing issues are because of ClearType. If you turn it off before running Modeler, you get the rulers back. I found a free utility called ClearType Switch from Karpolan.com that makes it really easy to toggle ClearType on and off. I turn it off, run Modeler, and then turn it right back on.
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VERY nice!
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Oh gees... My son calls me "Ye Old One" Young like us is quite refreshing...!
Old and wise is the music clip from Alan Parson used in the title... I'm a fan...
VERY nice demo reel. Keep inspiring the rest of us to try to catch up with you.
I had my first "Old Man" moment the other day. A neighbor came by with her young son to drop off a town telephone list. My 4-year-old daughter came to the door with me. As they were walking off, the neighbor's son turned to his mom and asked... "Was that her grandpa?"
I'm 45, so it is technically possible, but Sheesh!!
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Ever since I began using EIAS on my PC, there has been an issue when looking at a preview. I can't read the time or frame display. The font that is used has some sort of conflict with the ClearType effect that makes text more legible on Windows machines. It wipes out the font in the EIAS preview display (Modeler also suffered from this glitch).
If I turn off ClearType, I can read these displays, but then I have to deal with the poor look of the rest of the screen text.
Is it possible to change this font to one that works better with ClearType? Or to find a workaround that doesn't require shutting off ClearType each time I want to use EIAS?
Thanks.
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It has been a long time since I've done this, but I can't get the Bind Skin to Skeleton command to work. I import a bvh file for motion control, select "Create as Bone" (I've tried Create as Joint as well), then accept defaults on the next next screen. I then select the root bone (or any bone), right-click and select Bind Skin to Skeleton.
Here's where I get into trouble. No amount of clicking on the object I want bound with the skeleton in any view or the project window will allow me to select the object I want to bind with the skeleton. I've tried this on multiple objects, as well as under Windows XP Pro and Vista.
Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong? Or is this not working in 9a48 (PC 32 bit)?
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I think many of us have seen the issue of where an object never comes to rest in Bullet. In my case, I'm shooting a ball through a wall of 700 bricks. The bricks tumble nicely, but there are always a few bricks that never stop twitching, no matter what settings I try in the Deactivation settings.
I am wondering what others are doing to keep this from happening. What linear, angular and time settings are you using? Or is it a friction/bounce setting?
I'd really like to hear what you are doing.
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Could you please give us a little more detail? I'm not quite sure if you are trying to get a slave up and running, or if it is an issue with Renderama itself you are having. I have Renderama running right now with 4 slaves on a quad core XP Pro machine running SP3 without any problems.
Here are some general pointers...
Run the Renderama slave. Your firewall may protest. Just tell it to allow the slave to work. You'll see the slave IP address along with its port number (defaults to 1616). Click on the File menu and change the port number to something else. Renderama likes 1616 for the local camera. My four slaves are ports 1617–1620. Write this number down exactly as it appears. You need it when you set up Renderama.
In Renderama, click on 'Add' and type in the address you wrote down. Be sure to use a colon, not a semicolon (been there, done that. It doesn't work...:blush:). You need the full address, not just the port number.
My slaves are located in a different directory than EIAS. Each slave has its own directory inside this folder. As I don't want the slaves running all the time, I created a desktop folder and placed shortcuts to each slave inside it. This gives me quick access to the slaves without having to go find them.
Make sure you copy over the required directories from your main EIAS location for each slave. I always copy Library, Resources, Shaders, Sockets, Preferences, and Temp.
I know these are somewhat general ideas. Hopefully, they will help. If not, give us more details to go on and we'll go from there.
Good luck!!!
Ross
Hi all
unable to open rama on xp service pack2
drop the PC Slave folder
os respond config incorrect
THX
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When I'm using Modeler, I like to give my wires a name that helps me remember what I created it for. I then create a new layer in the Layer view and move my wire to it once I'm done using it. That way, the organization of my objects is cleaner. Plus, I can hide or unhide my wires all at once.
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One of the first things I did was to make sure "Inherit Scale" was selected by default in Preferences.
Ross
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This image is the result of a quick lighting test during my lunch period at work. The background image of Thor's Helmet was also used in global illumination for the purple glow.
I then placed a spotlight with soft shadows in position directly in front of the brightest portion of the background for the backlighting. I set Intensity at 6.0 to get the effect I was after. It had soft, raytraced shadows and took about 45 seconds to render on my dual core XP laptop.
Ross
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Impressive work! The whole process was very clear in its representation.
Nice job.
Ross
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Mark,
I was able to download 1, 2, and 6. I'll have to wait until I am at my in-laws to get the others. They're larger than I am comfortable downloading at work.
I did have to change the address slightly
https://public.me.com/markjohnston99me
the "Quality" leader wouldn't let the page load in IE8.
Thanks for making these available.
Ross
Hi Ross, I don't know . I have an I disk if I put them on it and make My I disk where you can download from it is that what could do it. Sorry I don't know much about this stuff really.
Mark
HI I was able to put a zipped of the mov. file that exported from screenflow and it's not compressed a second time by Quicktime so it should be a little better quality.https://public.me.com/markjohnston99me
I tried to load more but it gave me an error, apple keeps doing this. Only been able to load one so far, first one . I'll try later again. If anyone downloads it let me Know if it worked.
Mark
I have them all as zip files contain the .mov files there larger then the others. I think I need to make them at a lower resolution.
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Mark,
Any chance of posting direct links to the mov files instead of the embedded HTML page? I'd love to add these to my DVD containing all of Ian's tutorials.
thanks,
Ross
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In Windows IE8, I used Freecorder 4 to record from Vimeo or Youtube. But it doesn't get movs. Mark mentioned that there is a dropdown menu on his page, but on mine, the option to save is ghosted as I don't have Quicktime Pro.
Ross
There are ways to do it, often via browser addons that let you select the movie element and save it. There are several of those for Firefox. In Apple's Safari, you can locate the movie via the Activity window (it's quite noticeable while loading) and Alt-Click on it to save it to disk.
EDIT: aw, I was thinking Vimeo or Youtube, sorry. Mark's web hosts them as Quicktime movies, and the QT player allows for saving the files.
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That's looking pretty cool. I hope the plane and custom issue can be worked out.
Ross
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Tomas,
I'm at 31.1 mb right now. I tried downloading it yesterday, but it stopped at 25 megs.
BTW, do I need to have my original unlock code available? Or will it just install the new files over my old ones and let me start rendering again?
Thanks,
Ross
P.S.: Now at 39.1 mb (slow download for some reason)
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Mark,
I'm one of the ones using VisionLab Studio from fxhome.com. You can download the program for a free trial (watermarked). If you decide you want the program, look for it on ebay listed by TubeTape. They are an authorized reseller in the US. I got it for about half price, and it included a 9' x 12' green screen.
Ross
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Richard,
I have 1.0.2b3 (Windows version) of Rodeo. With Ramjac not supporting EIAS since v.7, is there still a way to get the updated version?
thanks,
Ross
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Thank you for showing this to us, Yhloon! This is a great little program! I am attaching something I threw together in it. It's nowhere what you have done, but I'm pretty happy with it, especially since I've never used a program like this.
Incidentally, I was only able to open an obj file in Sculptris if I first opened the file in Wings3D and exported to a new obj file with the Tesselation set to triangles. But that does let me paint UV maps on some of these old obj files I have floating around my hard drive.
Ross
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Thank you for the quick update!
Ross
Light scaling
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Many of the grouped objects I use have lights embedded inside the group. When I scale the group, everything scales as expected except for the lights. They retain their original targets, and usually their position as well. It would be great if lights scaled with their parent object. Settings like drop-off would scale as well, so spotlights would retain their position and light only what was originally planned for. As of right now, you have to go back through and fix all the lights if you have to scale an object.