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Published: 2008-02-26 01:47:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 315; Favourites: 0; Downloads: 1
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House of Yellow Leaves - with some windowsThis is only some of the many many many many windows that this space station will have ....
Blender 2.45a2
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They are not opaque - as the joint has no interior.. killing my system just doing the external....
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And is there no way to get a similar result with something a bit less memory-intensive? Something that maybe works during the render phase? Even with the screen render?
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I looked at doing the windows on the UV MAP, but I'd just never get the same results....
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Maybe not, but who's ever gonna use a 100meg model? Quality only goes so far, before something has to be sacrificed for speed...
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Yeah, but the conversion to .obj will reduce verts..
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How so? A shape is a shape, with however many polygons, and vertices it has. Just changing the format doesn't change the basic structure, does it?
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It does, as most other programs don't use 'quadratic' shaping... they up polygons or tri's ... I prefer the 4 vertice plane over the 3 vertice tris and Blender does not support polygons (more than 4 vertices per face)
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Poser/DAZ do use more than three sided figures. I know, because there's the option of splitting them into triangles on import.
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Poser/DAZ object being created with other programs - this tells me that DAZ can use a lot of different types of .obj (as Wavefront is not the only .obj anymore...)
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Don't know... They do call it a wavefront object, I believe. At least DAZ does. But I've never noticed any problem with the imports, even if it does something to them. And since the materials are set up to work with certain polygon groups, it can't very well go changing anything in the model...
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Anytime I export to .obj, or to .3ds my mesh does not look 'exactly' the way I made it... and it usually imports back in (ie I export, close blender, open blender and import the .obj that I just exported and it comes back abou 1/3 the size that I created it at... )
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Oh! Oh! I remember having a problem with that! I wish I could remember the option, or check box to eliminate it... It's just an option. I vaguely remember it having to do with the unit scale. they're not meters vs inches, or anything, they're something like Wavefront vs blender scales. If you choose a different one, it comes in absolutely humongous.
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Yeah, it's one extreme or the other ...
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Right! So, the scale in the import and export have to be the same, or it changes size. That's my point. I had to select something in particular to get it to import into DAZ the same size as it was in Truespace, and Blender.
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The import into DAZ - to me was always a pain in the ass... I never seemed to get it to import in a 'normal' size --
Also, as an example when I import Millennium Man (ie M3) into Blender he comes in SO small that he fit into one of the keys of the keyboard on the Office scene I made...
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It has import size options. But it's just import TO a particular size. The model is the same, as is the file.
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I wonder if the export options have anything to do with the importing sizes...
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Some, yes. When you export to a particular scale, you would have to import to that scale, or it would change. I'm trying to render transparent bubbles yet again at the moment, or I'd go look. 12% opacity, inside a non-shadow cube, with three lights. Highly reflective. It doesn't matter how high the reflectivity is, if the opacity is zero. It doesn't matter how transparent it is, it still shows the bg color on the edges. Makes a nice circle, though. The cube is just for some sort of actual color for reflecting. I'm trying to get soap bubbles.
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oh, I've heard that soap looking bubbles are difficult...
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Seemingly impossible, but I keep trying. This setting, render, that setting...
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hmm I will have to try in Blender and see what I can come up with...
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The problem is that bubbles are always in a background/scene. So I'm not sure you can actually do just a bubble. They interact with light, and scene with reflection, and refraction. I'm trying them inside of another sphere at the moment.
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It's the how to make it look like 'liquidy soap' that I'd have an issue.
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I managed to get milk bubbles! Before I gave up again.
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Wait.. if you got a 'milky' looking bubble then change the color to a blue hue...
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Tried that. I got a blue bubble. Tried a rainbow fractal and got a rainbow colored, semi-transparent sphere. Looks good, but it's no bubble. I think I should try black diffuse 100%, 100% reflective, low ambient, reflection rainbow plane BEHIND the camera.
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Above and below = the rainbow reflective plane.... (out of camera view...)
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I've about got it. But it only works in scenes. It takes a different one to work as an overlay.
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hmm now I never really tried to work much with overlays ...
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Well, regarding stocks.. They come in handy there. Interesting thing... As I lower the opacity, the render looks brighter. 16% opacity looks more see-through than 5%. I can't figure it. I think I'll try going REALLY low, and up into the 20% range.
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remember that 99% is near see through ... your thinking backwards
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As I lower the opacity, the actual image becomes less see-through. But it seems to be extra reflection. As I raise the opacity, the reflection decreases, and it begins to look murky.
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There must be a happy medium between the two settings that will look like soap bubbles...
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So far 16% opacity seems about the best. I have 2.3% rendering now. I should remember to lower my resolution when I do these things. 3kx3k just takes too long for an experiment.
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yeah, but if you have it right your done instead of having to re-render at a full res
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I just let it run in the BG anyway. So unless I get impatient to see it, I'm good to go. They take about an hour each to render. Which is a drastic improvement over the old system. My simple reflective ball took at least three hours on my old machine.
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I render while on DeviantART
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Me too. I just uploaded the bubble to markopolio.com/downloads I don't even see it in Blender. It might be huge or tiny... It doesn't work for Poser, the settings don't transfer. Right this minute, it only works in DAZ. But it works GREAT there!
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hmm email it to me and I'll find out how small it is... remember the M3 came in smaller than the smallest square that you can zoom to...
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Cool... where's the rest of your website?
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I deleted it. The spam attack back when, convinced me that it was no place for so-called art. And the bulletin board was also spammed, so chop, chop, drop, downloads is all that's left.
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Well, I think you should put it back up - but set it up as INVITE only site ... leaving only the D/L as an externally linkable part of the site...
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I suppose I might be able to do that. But I probably won't. I'm working my way toward selling stuff. So this would be my freebies section, for a sales page on say Renderosity, or something.
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I was thinking it would be good for collaborations and such
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Freebie collaborations, yes. But I don't feel like setting up a shopping cart and merchant account. I'd rather let someone else maintain that security, etc.
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no no no ... you be missing the Point - I put a file - you convert - I retrieve 
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I can upload secret files. Just a button with no image, or maybe a direct link, with no button.
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I think the direct link will work best.
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