Stephen Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 Hi, I am creating a time laps effects were the clouds change shape and move over time. I tried just working with noise on the shader but I have found working with the i3d gives a better result. Were I am getting stuck is the rendering. I rendered out my i3d sequence and all is well. Now I can not figure out how to update the iso every frame when doing the mantra render. Anyone have any ideas? I tried to use $F to pull in the correct i3d but the iso doesn't like it and errors. Until I figure this out guess I will just have to change it frame by frame . Stephen P.S. I am not really sure if this is a rendering issue (forgive me its my first post) so feel free to move it if need be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aracid Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 Hey Stephen Welcome to odforce! your approach sounds correct, and $F should itteratate through the files as expected. Try making sure that the files exist on the drive then if the file on the drive is numbered with pads then read them in using $F4 ie volume.0001.ifd = volume.$F4.ifd volume.1.ifd = volume.$F.ifd i think its best when posting a question that can be really simple, is to post the file and then someone can open and trouble shoot your network hope this helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Posted April 11, 2008 Author Share Posted April 11, 2008 Thanks aracid, I forgot that I had pading on in the i3d's haha. $F4 worked like a charm. Stephen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Symbolic Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 Hi Stephen, Could you please post an example of the result for your i3d... just a frame? ... and maybe you would like to describe your i3d workflow briefly... Will be a great help. Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Posted April 18, 2008 Author Share Posted April 18, 2008 Hi Stephen,Could you please post an example of the result for your i3d... just a frame? ... and maybe you would like to describe your i3d workflow briefly... Will be a great help. Cheers. Here is the hip file I put some notes in there that i think will explain things well. If you have any other questions ill do my best to answer them. i3d_cloud_test.hip Example images from the file showing how it breaks apart. Here is an image from a bit more testing that I did. Clouds are fun! Hope that helps, Stephen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CeeGee Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 Very beautifull. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kumpa Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 Wonderful. Are render times wonderful too ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Posted April 21, 2008 Author Share Posted April 21, 2008 Wonderful. Are render times wonderful too ? Haha ya render times are wonderful! Took around 30min I think for the large img. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 Haha ya render times are wonderful! Took around 30min I think for the large img. Raytraced shadows? Or DSMs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Posted April 21, 2008 Author Share Posted April 21, 2008 Raytraced shadows? Or DSMs? Raytraced. With depth map shadows it cuts the time in half. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Symbolic Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Hi Stephen! Thank you very much for the example. Great work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodoer Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 Here is the hip file I put some notes in there that i think will explain things well. If you have any other questions ill do my best to answer them.i3d_cloud_test.hip Example images from the file showing how it breaks apart. Here is an image from a bit more testing that I did. Clouds are fun! Hope that helps, Stephen why no render cloud Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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