Oscar J wrote:Hell yes! This is the ultimate carpaint *floating around in ecstasy*.

Excellent, subtle looking flakes + orange peel! Creds to Nick for building the foundation of this.

Very sexy!

Will give it a spin! Much much thanks

OnoSendai wrote:Testing normal maps, material setup etc..

Model and textures from http://quixel.se/usermanual/quixelsuite ... do_samples

Looks badass!

bahamut, how is that new rig performing? I've been considering building a couple network slaves, and was checking out the Xeon E5-2630s as they seem to be a bit cheaper and only a little bit slower.

What motherboard have you got your 2640s mounted on?

Quick request: For emitters, could we enable <backface_emit> from the Blendigo GUI? Really handy for things such as fire and flames... Annoying to edit the .igs file each time you export

@vis4arch

You can already do a hell of a lot with Blender's particle systems and group instancing. You get quite a lot of control from within Blender. Have you tried that?

Oscar J wrote:Really? Where do I fin the checkbox?

Render Settings -> Rendering Mode -> Custom

Then check BiDir, Metropolis, etc. and if you check Alpha Mask, it will render with alpha

Oscar J wrote:Pretty much all features except alpha rendering for some reason.

It supports alpha rendering just fine.

Awesome release! Congratulations.

And to the devs: The latter requires quite some trial and error, is there a better solution in sight to rotate the env-map directly in blender? I quite like that method of rotating the env. map, it's very precise. If your environment maps are all consistently aligned, it's quite easy to position th...

- Are those objects meshes, not extruded curves?
- Is there any object scaling?
- Are all objects enabled for rendering?

Check these and see if that helps...

Must be a locality / language thing... It exports '.' for me. Will have a look, maybe there's an easy way to force using '.'.

Haven't had much free time at all lately, but hopefully will upload some material stuff and this fix at some point soon.

This is genius: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R00IvqcI9jU

Simulate it in Indigo, maybe? I have no doubt it would be well up for the job!

EDIT: And the paper: http://lgg.epfl.ch/publications/2014/Hi ... ustics.pdf

Got basic material export working. Indigo diffuse and phong materials are now options in the material editor.

CTZn wrote:cool Tom, keep it up ! Are you being in touch with the Rhino community as well to spread the word aroundv?

Nah, still needs a bit of work before that