Video screen

[mcochran]

I would like to have a video screen apear to be self lit in open gl render or renderworks, is this possible? Raidiosity takes too long to render and I am frusturated trying to get the right settings to make the image look correct. Anyone have any tricks?

[michaelk]

Have you tried setting Reflexivity to Constant?

Michael K

[Pat Stanford]

Have you taken a look at the VideoScreen plug-in from Landu-Design?

http://www.landrudesign.com/DefaultFrameSet.htm?MainStart.htm~LandruMnFrm

Pat

[Cris with no H]

Dropping your image as an Image Prop will get you the results you're looking for, as it is rotatable, resizable, and by default uses Constant Reflectivity.

If you need light cast off that screen, drop an area light of the same size just behind the image prop and set the image prop's texture to not cast shadows, as I did in the picture.

Oh, and Andrew's VideoScreen plug-in is genius work. Very worth the money, esp if you have to do more than one screen in a rendering, may have to change sizes/types, or need to be able to represent the projectors, stands, etc.

Cris Dopher

[michaelk]

Chris

Using an Image Prop for a screen is a great idea.

I second the praise for Andrew's VideoScreen plug-in.

Michael K

[C. Andrew Dunning]

Gents -

Thank you for your kind words.

mcochran, if you have any questions about VideoScreen, feel free to ask here or via any of the e-mail links on our Web site.