VFB Stereo

[Morne]

So when we going to get a save button that saves the stereo image already?! Seems like such a simple request. Why do I have to use a 3rd party program to do this when I'm sure its pretty simple for ChaosGroup to code?

[glorybound]

Vlado mentioned, a while back, why they don't allow us to save it. I usually do it in After Effects, which takes a couple minutes.

[Morne]

Vlado mentioned, a while back, why they don't allow us to save it. I usually do it in After Effects, which takes a couple minutes.

Well it will still be nice to have it. Just like there was no need for VRayIES, because Max IES was fine. The VRay one is just more convenient and better. So the save thing also. In a hurry I dont care about overlap or distance etc, sometimes you just want the quickest possible solution even if it is not "correct". The preview is "fine" whu not just save the thing? The code is already there to preview it. To save what you see can't be more than 2 or 3 lines of code.

[glorybound]

I agree, but is explanation did make sense, so I learned how to do it in AE

[Bruce Hart]

There's also this free utility to save your anaglyph from a side by side image:
http://stereo.jpn.org/eng/stphmkr/

[Morne]

I know about the free software and the various other ways to do it in photoshop, AE and Composite. That's not the point

[vlado]

It is on the "to do" list, so hopefully we'll get there.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Dave_Wortley]

I just had a little play to see what could be done with the Vray VFB Maxscript plugin.
This is just a simple bit of code to bake down an anaglyph image to a flattened saveable anaglyph image, which you can then save normally from the frame buffer. It's really not the best way to work, and will only work on an individual image not a sequence (although that could be done fairly easily). As it's maxscript it will be slow for large reners, but should do the job.


Dave

--Script to bake Vray VFB Anaglyph image to a saveable image.
--
--Installation
--
--1. Download the VRayVFBMaxScript plugin from http://www.spot3d.com/vray/misc/
--2. In 3dsmax, Goto the Maxscript menu, New Script, paste this code into the window, 
--then select all the text and drag it onto  a toolbar to make a button

(
	thesource = VrayVFBGetChannelBitmap 1
	thedest = bitmap (thesource.width / 2) thesource.height

	for i = 0 to (thesource.height - 1) do
	(
		thepixels = getpixels thesource [0,i] thesource.width
		newline = #()
		
		for j = 1 to ((thesource.width / 2)) do
		(
			r = thepixels[j].r
			g = thepixels[(j + thesource.width / 2)].g
			b = thepixels[(j + thesource.width / 2)].b
			a = thepixels[j].a
			
			append newline (color r g b a)
			
		)
		setpixels thedest [0,i] newline
		
	)
	
	display thedest
	
	close thesource
)

[Da_elf]

should be able to combine them in 3dsMax's video post. Seems to be forgotten by many people.