5 000 000 000 000 polygons

[voltron7]

Spikeadeliv, very impressive, wish I could play, too. It's good to hear they fixed you up. good luck with the job!

[devin]

Are you still waiting for your license? I sent a second one off yesterday and got it back today so they are doing much better.

[voltron7]

No, I'm just waiting to register for access to demo, so far. They emailed me today asking when I purchased it, etc. but as I've said all along, I just can't even register to try the demo. I appologize for continuing to post about it, I'll just keep trying to email iCube...

Thanks, all, sorry to waste the BW

[raistlin]

I've bought the plug but doesn't work yet... I mailed some questions but i wan't to know if someone have the same problem, the key generator provide with the installation don't identify the C:/ volume and, i think, this is my problem... When I authorize the plugins in 3dsmax 2008 or 2009 (64) it doesn't work and i can't tweek it...
So many thanks if you could help me, i'll posted some renders when it work, i promise !

[raistlin]

so... finally i've finish to install this fantastic plugin ! here my contribution as i promise, it's a very first pic of it, so... not very worked. I promised i post better job when i got the time to do !



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[Da_elf]

can i see your grass model?

[raistlin]

so, because your are not the one interest i've made a simple pic/making off of my grass...

[peterguthrie]

looks good raistlin, I started a tutorial on how I did mine (which will eventually become part of my main website): http://peterguthrie.wordpress.com/20...rass-tutorial/

My main criteria for the grass was to keep the poly count down (8 per blade x 100 blade per 'clump') and I also kept them single sided so I could make use of the vray2sidedmaterial.

[raistlin]

there is a lot of trick to do, here is only a way to make it, if i have the time i love to made my "grass texture" with a map and alpha etc, it's the better way, but i haven't the time now... Your pictures are really fantastic, and smell like a natural hill i'd like to know how you do the translucent for the grass

[peterguthrie]

no problem, i just drop the vraymaterial for the grass into a vray2sidedmaterial and leave the translucency swatch at default (ie grey 128,128,12. Obviously this only works if your grass is modeled with no thickness.

Remember also that 75% of the battle in making something look translucent is giving it a reason to look translucent, like the camera looking directly at the sun.

[raistlin]

for sure ! this is why it should be interesting with leaves from a tree... which should be in the very front of a pic.
and thank for the tip !

[simmsimaging]

Just bought the plugin today and I was blown away at the speed, but I'm wondering if this can be used with Backburner? I am having problems with DR nodes crashing and thought I'd try Bburner, but it doesn't work at all - just renders without the VrayScatter objects.

Does the node license prevent using BB? That would kind of suck as I use BB all the time.

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[duke2]

Theres a different version of the plugin for nodes - it has N in the name as opposed to W. Also, if you're using the SP3 beta, use a version prior to 23 January.

[tricky]

Contemplating this plugin, but before I try, does anyone know if the demo will work with DR?

[raistlin]

that work fine for sure, test with 5 blades of dual quadcore, work perfectly... (vista 64)