dimmer the light in an animation bongo ?

[Jean-Paul Paloux_cg]

I saw some animation rendering of maxwell with their multiple lights. Can we animate using bongo the multiplier of an emitter or rectangular light with vray ? Do we need a script ?
Thank you !
JP

[dalomar_cg]

dimmer the light in an animation bongo ?

JP Do you mind posting the link. I think I know which one your talking about, but I can't find it.

tx

[Jean-Paul Paloux_cg]

dimmer the light in an animation bongo ?

http://www.maxwellrender.com/videos.html#multilight

http://www.maxwellrender.com/img/gal.../rcmlight2.mov

http://www.maxwellrender.com/img/gal...t/h264_lan.mov

[joe_b]

dimmer the light in an animation bongo ?

The only animation possible in VfR is whatever bongo supports - I don't know if bongo supports light animation, but maybe thats something we should work toward.

[edit]
Note - I believe the ones that show like "Light One / Light Two" is actually a side-product of their rendering process. I don't think that is actually an animatable light, you can just change the intensity of the lights post-render due to the way they store render information (I believe ).

[dalomar_cg]

dimmer the light in an animation bongo ?

Okay... It was the ones that I thought. I think (atleast the h246 lan movie) that those are not neccessarily animations, but done through post work. Basically (as I understand it) you can take what would be the raw rendered file which would have each light on its own channel, the adjust the intensity of that channel in another program. I'm not sure if this is a tool that maxwell has bundled with its render, but fror the most part I think thats what those movies are. As for editing parameters in Bongo I doubt that there is the functionality currently. However in Bongo 2 I think have expanded functionality, so it may be able to animate light parameters.

[Jean-Paul Paloux_cg]

dimmer the light in an animation bongo ?

piece of answer:

Set its material properties Self Luminance to 1, and the
color to the color of your light, or brighter.

Ten place it inside your 'light' object, and make it
scale1d in and out, or make your 'light' move from behind
the case to infront of it (Thus the camera would see the
bright object), and then behind it (Light off), then
infront again, and back and forth.

That is only a work around.

or

I would use two lamp objects and
switch the visibility on and off for each of them.

[Jean-Paul Paloux_cg]

dimmer the light in an animation bongo ?

However in Bongo 2 I think have expanded functionality, so it may be able to animate light parameters.

I thought that they were on Bongo 1.0 Service Release 3 RC2 ?
Jp

[dalomar_cg]

dimmer the light in an animation bongo ?

Thats what it maybe. It was a few months ago that I was talking to the McNeel guys, so I can't remember exactly. Either way Rhino 4 is going to add allot of extended functionality to bongo. I think in v4 it will be possible to edit control points. We'll just have to wait and see about lights and other things such as materials or animated textures. All that would be really great...Then I could pretty much leave max behind for good.