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    Bending on the diagonal

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by mjm
    poor language usage

    >> another fast-ish route turns out to be: 

    • draw the poly shape

    • convert to nurbs surface, adding as much U / V / Weight as desired (3 is a good start)

    • if bend is specific height, add 3D locus over corner at desired height

    • move vertice to locus

    • shell result to desired thickness

    Hidden Line Rendering 20 min vs 3 Seconds

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by mjm
    added portion of petapixel's Adobe LR CC review

    I am following this thread with avidity, as it consolidates so many of the VWX issues in one place, primarily VW's focus on 'shiny new', rather than 'simply better'. 

    Another software vendor recently: 

    What’s more, Lightroom Classic is getting a major speed boost. Adobe admitted earlier this year that Lightroom has performance issues, and now it’s launching a major update to fix that.

    “While the palette of Lightroom features grew, our performance detracted from these gains,”Adobe says. “So we took stock of where you were feeling the most performance anxieties, and dedicated this launch primarily to addressing these issues.”

    Lightroom Classic is being updated with improved speed in major areas, including launch time, preview generation, import selection, switching between Library and Develop, navigating between photos in Develop, responsive brushing, and more.

     

    DO note this fresh focus has taken Adobe most of the past decade to get around to…

    Loft Surface

    in Solids Modeling

    Posted

    On 11/8/2017 at 12:29 AM, Claes Lundstrom said:

     

     

    A much easier way to build for example a fencer is to just generate a clean basic shape, in this case the entire side panel of a car, and then trim out the opening with simple extrusions from the side. In the case a circle with a rectangle extension (add surface) for the wheel arches and a double line polygon for the door gaps. 

     

     

    fender.jpg

    Claes: Great forest / trees example, thanks.

    Twinmotion Plugin + Sync

    in Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests

    Posted

    On 8/25/2017 at 12:05 PM, JimW said:

    … it turns out they just have a REALLY good OpenGL implementation, giving them high light counts, reflectivity, bump shader quality and of course, object animation.

    This doesn't make me like it less, just makes my thoughts (related to stealing from it) switch gears from enhancing Renderworks Animations and more towards enhancing OpenGL.

    ++++++++

     

    SPEED UP AUTO-HIDE PALETTES?

    in Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests

    Posted

    17 hours ago, zoomer said:

    I gave up on auto hide.

    I also overshoot and open thing unwanted or I edit something with setting window

    exceeds the Palette an when I OK the palette auto hides and such things.

     

    Main reason may be my Wacom Pen Input that does not work somehow to switch

    the little "+" to temporarily lock auto hide.

     

    So I set that feature to OFF completely and open my RM by CMD+R.

    SAme. The auto-open/hide seemed useful till it obstructed my window every time I went near it. Simpler to Cmd+R currently

    Open GL and Opacity

    in Rendering

    Posted

    3 hours ago, JimW said:

    In general, if it isn't 3D conversion res or the Curved Geometry setting in the render style causing the faceting, then yes the rest of it usually comes from DPI.

    Thanks for the clarity (bad pun maybe?) there JimW.

    All Architectural PIOs Should Have The Option For 3d Only

    in Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests

    Posted

    4 hours ago, Kevin McAllister said:

    I wish all architectural PIOs had the option for 3d only. Often I will use a door or a window PIO to generate geometry in a set model where they are inserted into custom 3d geometry instead of walls. When you create a symbol I end up with a partial hybrid symbol because my custom geometry doesn't have a 2d component but the door or window does. I wish there was a checkbox for 3d only like the Truss PIOs.

     

    Thanks,

     

    Kevin

     

     

    Great KM, Just gonna add that ALL PIOs should have A 3D ONLY option.

     

    Open GL and Opacity

    in Rendering

    Posted

    On 10/26/2017 at 6:59 AM, Luis M Ruiz said:

    The facets are controlled by the viewport resolution. I had the other two at 300dpi and rendered the cartoon at only 72dpi,  just to make a point on this post.

    great, so if the viewport resolution is sufficient, the facets will be resolved, true story?

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