implicit surfaces - again

[dimo]

Hi,

Something rather technical than artistic I rendered out a small animation with my implicit surfaces.
http://www.dimo3d.info/implicitelectric.wmv

I suppose this is only interesting for those who followed the thread about implicit surfaces:
http://www.chaosgroup.com/forum/phpB...ic.php?t=11887

I just wanted to show that the flickering really is reduced a lot now. Even with a 3d texure with very fine thin details like electric.dlt. The rendertimes with antialiasing (adaptive -1 2) and precalculated IRMap(with secondary bounces) were about 60 sec on a dual xeon.
The new bottleneck is the memory it takes to store my cache. If you try something more complicated than a single sphere it resets you to the desktop. But I have now a bit more time to work further on this.

Best Regards,

Dieter

[natty]

WOW .... pretty cool stuff !

[joconnell]

That's really impressive stuff - No doubt yourself and vlado have been in contact about this stuff but it seems like a really smart way of terrain modelling and rendering - great work.

[RichardBlank]

Oh Man!!! That looks totally Banaaanas!!!!

[Da_elf]

i notice a red tinge to the left and a dark tinge to the right. is that just the video compression?

[jacksc02]

dimo, have you updated the plugin? it would be great to get an updated version for further testing.

[dimo]

No, I'm using the built I sent around.
But I have resumed the work on it now.

Best Regards,

Dieter

[jacksc02]

fantastic news! keep me posted with any updates.

[dellis]

Dimo,


Can the 3d texture be animated?

[instinct]

jumping in here as Dieter is home already, and am working in at the same company

Great Job Dieter!

@dellis : yes it can and it can be as complex as you wish (just stick all those 3d maps into the submaterials and combine and animate them as you wish)

Thorsten

[DaForce]

Nice!! pleasedo keep us updated.

Now why could i never get results like that
*user error for sure hehe*

[dimo]

I will post the scene. Then you can have a look

Best Regards,

Dieter

[DaForce]

oh thanks

[dellis]

....yeah...if you need anyone else to test this...i'm already doing backflips over here to get your attention. I played with Peter Watje plugin and had a great time of it.

Is yours going to be a commercial plugin?

[dimo]

Ok,

here's the scene for the video above. The Calculation of the IR Map takes quite a while. but you can prerender it as you would for flythroughs. (Every 10th frame, etc).I have the 3GB switch enabled on my machine. If you don't have that there's a chance that you will get an exception.

www.dimo3d.info/Sphere2.zip


Best Regards,

Dieter