Updated irradiance map viewer an .ply to .vrmesh converter

[vlado]

An updated version of the imap viewer is available on our site once you log in, in the Docs section; there is also a small utility for converting (large) .ply files to .vrmesh files for rendering.

Best regards,
Vlado

[plastic_]

i have no idea what ply is but it looks like the imap converter can be automated now...very cool...

[vlado]

The .ply file format is a mesh-description format; it is used sometimes for scanned 3d models - for example, the models from the Stanford scanning repository are available in .ply format.

Best regards,
Vlado

[jojo7077]

.ply converter...

Vlado,

Interestingly enough, I was laboring last evening with attempts to download and convert the Lucy model on the Stanford site.

Have you successfully converted tha tmodel? It might help me a great deal.

jojo

[vlado]

Re: .ply converter...

Vlado,

Interestingly enough, I was laboring last evening with attempts to download and convert the Lucy model on the Stanford site.

Have you successfully converted tha tmodel? It might help me a great deal.

Yep, it works. The converter works with any of the standford models that we have tested it with.

Best regards,
Vlado

[percydaman]

ya it works great! Ive never tried rendering one of them, and man it takes a long time to render that many polys. The crappy lighting is due to using a make shift lightdome. skylight just seemed to take sooo long.

[Syclone1]

Nice one Percy

-dave

[percydaman]

its funny but I reopened the scene later and the vrmesh appeared gone. even rendered and it wasn't showing up though it said it was in the scene. So I reimported it from scratch and low and behold, it rendered alot faster for some reason. was even able to use GI and it was no big deal...

[cpnichols]

Nice Percy... I think I will make one too...

BTW... Vlado: These utils are located under Docs, sorta hard to find. Can you place a link from the main download page telling people that these utils exist here?

[percydaman]

thanks.. I think I definitely chose to test it out on the biggest mofo model on that page...lol

[cpnichols]

Ok here you go... did a 1k and saved the IR map for it (90 mins for that) then resued the IR map to see how big I could go. Did a 5kx3k and did it in 52 mins.

Other stats. Did a slight reflection with Fresnel, Used an HDRI fill with a Vray arealight for key.

Used the Dynamic option in the system tad so I never went above 1gig of ram.

Can send you the full 5k jpg on request.

Fun way to play around on a Sunday huh?