General useful links

[Micha_cg]

Thomas An. started this collection and I continue it.

_Micha

Nothing much here yet.
This post will be used as a repository of stuff (sort of a bookmarks thingy)

Vray - GETTING STARTED[*]Official V-Ray Documentation www.spot3d.com[*]V-Ray for Rhino Wiki www.asgvis.com/vfrhino/help.htm[*]VfR user materials and test scene
http://www.asgvis.com/index.php?opti...d=90&topic=890[*] Vray user tutorials (a must ) www.asgvis.com/VfRtw/bin/view/VfR/UserTutorials[*] http://www.cgarchitect.com/upclose/V...ngs_Part_I.pdf[*]Other Sources
www.aversis.be/extra_tutorials/00.htm
www.tirad.com/plugins/max/vray.htm
www.spot3d.com/vray/help/VRayHelp150beta[*]V-Ray Help in Italian
www.vray.it - Post

TECHNIQUES / EXPERIMENTS[*]Virtual Reality in mov format
www.asgvis.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=1479[*]Dispersion (with Vray)
www.myweb.tiscali.co.uk/elvis/dispersion.html[*] render objects invisible for camera
http://www.asgvis.com/index.php?opti...=90&topic=3782[*]Trees: generators and usage
http://www.asgvis.com/index.php?opti...d=90&topic=401[*]Grass
http://www.asgvis.com/index.php?opti...d=90&topic=566[*] Texturing
http://www.asgvis.com/index.php?opti...0&topic=2380.0[*] Jewelry
www.gemvisiononline.com

IMAGE GALLERIES
www.chaosgroup.com/gallery
http://www.cgarchitect.com/gallery/g...earchChecked=5
www.3dluvr.com/grid/gallery.htm
www.myweb.cableone.net/amylenhart/gallery.html
www.richardrosenman.com

GENERAL[*]General CG references
http://www.neilblevins.com/cg_educat..._education.htm[*]Photography concepts:
www.dpreview.com/learn/?/glossary/[*]Lighting concepts:
http://www.erco.com/guide_v2/guide_2...ex_guide_2.htm
www.erco.com/news/en/en_frameset_news.htm[*]Color tempreature chart:
www.velocityfactor.com/Scripts/Spectrum.html
http://www.mediacollege.com/lighting...mperature.html
www.neon-lighting.com/articles/kelvin_colors.htm
www.truesun.com/crikelvin.htm[*]Kelvin and RGB:
www.flash.lakeheadu.ca/~rgirardi/kw_rgb.html
http://www.planetpixelemporium.com/t...ges/light.html
http://www.graphics.com/modules.php?...icle&artid=151
http://www.graphicsnews.com/modules....icle&artid=153
http://www.graphics.com/modules.php?...icle&artid=157[*]Resolution Explained:
http://www.fotofinish.com/resources/...htm#printimage[*]Color conversion formulas
www.easyrgb.com/math.html
www.forret.com/tools/color.asp?

DEFINITIONS[*]Z Buffer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_buffer[*]Alpha Channel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_channel[*]Camera Cosine:[*]Hyperfocal Distance: [*]BRDF (Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function):
http://www.graphics.cs.ucdavis.edu/~..._2004/BRDF.ppt
http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/onli...s/reflectance/
www.math.nist.gov/~FHunt/appearance/index.html
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/CAVE/soft...uret/index.php[*]BSDF (Bidirectional Scattering Distribution Function):
http://www.graphics.cs.ucdavis.edu/~...DFs_BSSDFs.ppt
www.graphics.stanford.edu/papers/veach_thesis/
http://www.integra.jp/eng/products/s...rized_bsdf.pdf

CAMERA TERMINOLOGY[*]Overview
www.maxwellrender.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8218[*]F-Stop, Apperture, Diaphragm:
http://www.dpreview.com/learn/?/Glos...perture_01.htm
Each step halves the amount of light. Large apperture decreases the DOF (blurrier image)
Typical stops (from large to small): f/1.4 f/2 f/2.8 f/4 f/5.6 f/8 f/11 f/16 f/22 f/32 f/45 f/64[*]Lens (focal length):
http://www.dpreview.com/learn/?/Glos..._Length_01.htm

• <20mm = Super wide angle
  24 to 35 = Wide angle
  50mm = Normal lens (human eye)
  80-300 = Telephoto lens
  >300 = Super tele

• Shutterspeed:
  http://www.dpreview.com/learn/?/Glos...erspeed_01.htm
  
  SCIENCE
• Online physics reference:
  www.hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hph.htm
• Periodic table of chemical elements
  www.webelements.com/
• Database of optical indices:
  www.sopra-sa.com/more/database.asp
• Dielectrics (abbe, ND numbers):
  http://www.edmundoptics.com/techsupp...?articleid=259
  www.hoyaoptics.com/specialty_glass/optical.htm
  http://www.renderaid.com/infoDetail~...~Resource.aspx
• Real life prisms and dispersion:
  http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/photofile...m-DSCN5016.jpg
  www.rit.edu/~andpph/exhibit-spectrum.html
  www.kgg.org.uk/spectrumh.html
  www.digital-depictions.com/images/dispers01.jpg
• Human Vision:
  http://www.olympusmicro.com/primer/l...sionintro.html
  www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_system
  www.dpfwiw.com/vision.htm
• Light:
  www.olympusmicro.com/primer/lightandcolor/
  http://www.tvtechnology.com/features...rh-color.shtml
  
  UTILITIES
• Image Hosting (Use these services to post your images into the forum)
  www.666kb.com ... very easy to use
  www.imageshack.us
  www.imageuploader.net
  www.photobucket.com
  www.xs.to
  www.putfile.com
  www.imageknockout.com
• File Hosting
  www.rapidshare.de
  www.megaupload.com
  www.mytempdir.com
• Panorama tools
  www.webuser.fh-furtwangen.de/%7Edersch/ (PanoTools)
  www.panoshow.com/panocube.htm (PanoCube)
  www.autopano.net (images to panorama - easy done)
• Denoising software
• www.tinyurl.com/e2g5r (PaintShop Pro 9 Menu: Adjust --> PhotoFix --> DigitalCameraNoiseRemoval)
• www.neatimage.com (Neat Image) - Recommended
• www.picturecode.com (NoiseNinja)
• www.imagenomic.com/detailsstandalone.asp (NoiseWare)
• Seamless texture generator www.texturemaker.com
• Image Browser/converter with HDR support www.xnview.com
• Compression Utilitie www.7zip.org (Highest compression ratio, Open source, Highly recommended)
• 3D file and image browser www.mootools.com
• Rhino file image preview at Windows exlorer, Mootools 3D browser www.rhinocenter.fi/tools.php
• Video capture tool for tutorials
  
  http://news2.mcneel.com/scripts/dnewsweb.exe?utag=&group=rhino&xrelated=246091&cmd _related=View+threads
  
  
  Objects and Scenes (free)
• very large archive www.archive3d.net
• Stanford 3d Scanning repository
  www.graphics.stanford.edu/data/3Dscanrep/
• Cornell box specifications
  www.graphics.cornell.edu/online/box/
• Jotero.com
  http://forum.jotero.com/viewtopic.php?t=41
• Japanese culture models
  www.archibase.net/articles/1156.html
  www.3dchaya.com/
• Building
  www.greatbuildings.com/types/models/models.html
• Furniture
  www.ultra3d.com./
• Miscellaneous
  www.george.3dbeast.com/page2.html
  www.honda.co.jp/WebPlamo/
  
  Rhino scripts and tools
• Camera allignment for architecture renderings
  news2.mcneel.com/scripts/dnewsweb.exe?cmd=article&group=rhino&item=240905&u tag=
• set focus of DOF and show focused plane
  http://www.asgvis.com/index.php?opti...d=90&topic=782
• Render Queue
  http://www.asgvis.com/index.php?opti...d=90&topic=443
• Render selected
  http://www.asgvis.com/index.php?opti...d=90&topic=417
• Rotate and render script for IM cache calculation
  http://www.asgvis.com/index.php?opti...d=90&topic=162
• mesh texture manipulation without RCM tool
  news2.mcneel.com/scripts/dnewsweb.exe?cmd=article&group=rhino&item=237469&u tag=
• Add UV coordinates to objects without UV
  http://www.asgvis.com/index.php?opti...d=90&topic=904
• Batch render of Rhino files
  http://www.asgvis.com/index.php?opti...d=90&topic=927
• Billboard script for allignment of 2D textured planes to the camera
  http://www.asgvis.com/index.php?opti...d=90&topic=416
• Show reflection vector of a surface point
  http://www.asgvis.com/index.php?opti...=90&topic=1061
  
  OTHER LINKS
• NCS->RGB converter
  www.polykat.de/index2.htm
• all around colors
  www.easyrgb.com/index.htm
• Color tools link collection
  http://www.charneira.blogspot.com/20...1_archive.html
  
  Gamma correction
• many infos around calibration
  www.aim-dtp.net/aim/calibration/index.htm
• Monitorkalibrierung
  http://www.simpelfilter.de/farbmanag...itorkalib.html
  
  HDRI
• software
  www.hdrlabs.com great resource for infos and textures
  www.hdrshop.com
  
• textures
  http://www.asgvis.com/index.php?opti...d=90&topic=665 HDRI links
  www.spectralogue.com/textures/index.php?path=50 (free highres)
  www.aversis.be/hdri/index.htm
  http://www.lightworks-user.com/hdri_...collection.htm
  www.hdri-locations.com (commercial)
  www.maxzoom.de (commercial)
  www.doschdesign.com (great highquality commercial collections)
  www.debevec.org/Probes/
  www.realtexture.de/
  www.sachform.de (commercial and free sample files)
  www.dbki.org/hdr/index.html
  www.paralumino.com/
  
  

[laurent1023]

Re: General useful links - version 2

hi,

thanks for this list. Unfortunatelly the links related to asgvis.com of the "Rhino scripts and tools" are broken!

[Micha_cg]

Re: General useful links - version 2

All old forum links should fixed now.

[dalomar_cg]

Re: General useful links

Added Riccardio's Italian V-Ray site - www.vray.it

[SamPage]

Re: General useful links

Micha, thank you for taking the time for putting this list together. However, as with what seems to be a large portion of the ASGvis site, it seems to be suffering from many dead links:

[*]V-Ray for Rhino Wiki www.asgvis.com/vfrhino/help.htm

This link does not exist

[*]VfR user materials and test scene
http://www.asgvis.com/index.php?opti...d=90&topic=890

The Material Studio Download link in the linked thread does not exist

[*] Vray user tutorials (a must&#160; ) www.asgvis.com/VfRtw/bin/view/VfR/UserTutorials

This link does not exist

TECHNIQUES / EXPERIMENTS[*]Virtual Reality in mov format
www.asgvis.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=1479

Does not exist

[*]Dispersion (with Vray)
www.myweb.tiscali.co.uk/elvis/dispersion.html

Does not exist

While I am enjoying my new purchase of V-Ray, I have to say learning it is a bit challenging when the majority of the resources for doing so apparently no longer exist. As the product did not come with a manual, and the online PDF is a decent start but certainly does not cover a majority of the tools, having learning resources available would seem imperative.

Again, thank you for taking the time for putting together what does exist, but is there some hidden repository for information that I can not find?

[Sando]

Re: General useful links

Another one to add to the list. Great site for Free textures

http://www.mayang.com/textures/

[matus.nedecky]

Re: General useful links

Free 3D models, materials, visopts, vismats, textures... http://www.flyingarchitecture.com/
Free textures, all of them seamless with diffuse map, displacement, bump, specular: http://www.rendertextures.com/
CG news worth of reading: http://www.renderspirit.com/

[cadmonkey1]

Re: General useful links 2d people

This list is huge but here are my favourites

textures - www.cgtextures.com
General stock photography www.stockvault.net
Cut out people www.kropped.com
Cut out trees www.vyonyx.com

[bambrose]

I concur.
As with much of this forum the links are all dead, and point to the same page on the main website. presumably as a result of a re-jog of the site at some point. Unfortunately it has rendered all the hard work of those people generous enough to provide the information (which Chaos Group themselves have not) useless.

[Carlosbh]

Hi, in my web site there are some basic resources for Rhino and Vray for Rhino,
Thank You !
http://www.personalrender.com

[bambrose]

Hi, in my web site there are some basic resources for Rhino and Vray for Rhino,
Thank You !
http://www.personalrender.com

Thanks Carlos. Everything helps at the moment !

[bambrose]

Hi, in my web site there are some basic resources for Rhino and Vray for Rhino,
Thank You !
http://www.personalrender.com

Hi Carlos,

I'm afraid your website is down ?

[Carlosbh]

Hi bambrose, I accessed now and saw that it's all right! You are not can to access?
Thank You.

[bambrose]

Hi bambrose, I accessed now and saw that it's all right! You are not can to access?
Thank You.

Hey Carlos, No I'm afraid not. I've tried it in a couple of different browsers with the same 'connection has timed out' error resulting. I've been online all day so I think it is an issue with viewing your site in the UK (well London anyway) ?
Bill

[Carlosbh]

This should probably to be same, here I can access!
A Big Hug.

PS. Maybe you can by the google translator.
Thank You.