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BradPeebler

San Mateo
1978 posts

Happy Friday fellow modonaughts!

It has been a good week. I would say not as good as last week, but the project marches ever forward. We did have a couple silly bugs that got introduced at the beginning of the week but they were quickly identified and killed. On the other hand, we also had some really killer optimizations done for projects using instances. Since I promised to do some paint tricks for today, I'll have to do some instancing on one of the next fridays. THere is so much to show you!

I would also like to tell you that one of the things that was a much bigger project than we anticipated was the complete input remapping system. It has been a real bear to get right, but I think it is really coming together now. I plan to do some videos for you on that soon as well. The results are really very cool. I think it will make you all quite pleased.

We also added something this week that was not on the original spec. Our scripting system now supports Python! Based on user feedback (and some heavy hittter studios!) we decided to extend the supported languages from Perl and LUA to include Python. In the process we discovered Python is actually pretty sweet!

This weeks 201 treats include a couple of images rendered in modo from the Sponza project. These are tests in performance and do not have the quality settings maxed out but for roughly 2 to 3 minutes a frame they are pretty sweet.

We also bring to you two new video clips (I spoil you). As promised I show a little more on the painting front as well as some tricks using Ambient Occlusion baking and the paint tools for creating a grime map. Good times.

(Disclaimer: There are a couple user errors in the first video. I forgot to activate Projection Paint so you may notice the paint stroke moves away from the brush where the UV map distorts. Thats not a bug, just my bad. Also, I had the wrong tool active when I went to use the blur and painted some black pixels instead. It was about midnight last night and I was too tired to re-record them to correct it. So there you have it.)

Enjoy!

This one rendered in 3 minutes 31 seconds on the quad G5.

This one rendered in 1 minute and 33 seconds on the quad! Thats a fast combo...

If you mock my painting skills you get no more soup! ;)

modo can paint but Brad can't!

I have to run to a meeting and the Ambient Occlusion-Grime Map video is not on the server yet. I will have Jason post a link in this thread as soon as it is up.

Jason Edit - Here it is: Ambient Occlusion - Grime Map Video

Enjoy!

BP

Message edited by Luxology Webmaster on 12/16/2005 - 2:31 PM

lol Brad...the Sponza project images look excellent and for that time...even better. :)

Thanks for the goodies. :)

Thanks for the update.
Looks very nice!

Keep up the good work.

Alrighty then! Lux finally secured my upgrade!!!

12/16/2005 - 2:03 PM

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Jose Vergara

Madrid, SPAIN
400 posts

Great! The quality is good for the time invested. It is fast.

Tonight i will render it in Lightwave to compare.

Mmmm, i have looked at the file names for those pics and i have discovered that the first pic says "modo201_sponza_01_5m19s.jpg" and the second "modo201_sponza_02_2m44s.jpg".

So you said the first one was 3 minutes 31 seconds and the file says 5 minutes and 19 seconds. The second you said 1 minute and 33 seconds and the file says 2 minutes and 44 seconds. They were rendered in a different computer and not in the Quad G5?

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Message edited by Jose Vergara on 12/16/2005 - 2:13 PM

12/16/2005 - 2:05 PM

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Tim Vazquez

Orlando, FL
568 posts

Awesome!!

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12/16/2005 - 2:11 PM

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Mylenium

Leipzig, Germany
1124 posts

Luvly. Can't wait for the occlusion video.

Mylenium

[Pour Mylene, ange sur terre]

Cool! And a nice subtle fisheye distortion in the second image. Me like :)

But where's the second video?

I just got up and started clapping. Bravo!

12/16/2005 - 2:25 PM

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Steve McRae

Calgary, Canada
1088 posts

very very cool. cant wait

I think Brad needs to clear his throat more often ;) we should all send him some mints or lozenges . . .

Message edited by Steve McRae on 12/16/2005 - 10:01 PM

12/16/2005 - 2:28 PM

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Tom Kirby Green

Kensington, London
40 posts

Veeeeery cool. I'm wondering if it's even possible to be more excited. Brad, dare we imagine a Q1 '06 release for 201?

thanks a lot for these! :)

keep'em coming!

12/16/2005 - 2:50 PM

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Javier Velasquez

Leipzig, Alemania
125 posts

Yupi. Thanks folx.

J.

Awesome!

Quick question for Brad....I noticed that one video was done on a Mac and the other on a PC. Are there some features, such as the advanced open GL, which are better on the PC or unsupported on a mac? I'm considering a new computer...what is the recommended video card for 201? Thanks!

Great video and amazing that we get updates so frequently.

Thanks a lot Brad and the Lux team.

I think Brad needs to clear his throat more often however ;) we should all send him some mints or lozenges . . .

Fort Myers, FL
469 posts

woohoo.. cant wait for 201.. i wanna do rendering IN modo.. no more go to this or that app after modeling :)

meloncully

MODONAUT :D

12/16/2005 - 3:24 PM

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Son Kim

California
3687 posts

Well im sold on the painting tools! good job, Lux.

Now all i need to see is Solid Sketch ;)

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12/16/2005 - 3:26 PM

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Cheers

Hertfordshire, UK.
335 posts

Thanks for the continued update Brad...it is appreciated very much...especially as what you are showing us is so cool :)

Fast render times as well on the pictures...an ambient enviroment I pressume?...if a GR enviroment then, wow! :P

Once again, thanks for the updates.

Cheers

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12/16/2005 - 3:28 PM

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