Yep, that's exactly what I think aswell. I haven't tried it with volumetrics though, only with solid objects, which looked awful when rendered as pointcloud. Maybe you could get away visually with pretty simple volumetrics.
Am 17.10.2012 um 09:25 schrieb adam jones: > hey patrick > > cheers for the reply, I was just thinking that aside from the volume / cloud > evolving and undulating over time clouds could be rendered as a single frame > and camera independent from 3d and any camera move applied in nuke, hopefully > in time this is something that would be possible. > > -adam > > > On 17/10/2012, at 6:15 PM, Patrick Heinen wrote: > >> Hi adam, >> >> As you said you already answered your own question, "deepToPoints" gives you >> a pointcloud representation of your Deep files, similar to what >> "PositionToPoints" does. >> What you mentioned under 1.) is theoretically possible, but rendering >> pointclouds in Nuke doesn't give a satisfying result yet. >> >> Regards >> Patrick >> Am 17.10.2012 um 07:53 schrieb crunch fx: >> >>> ? >>> ? >>> ? >>> >>> >>> On 10/17/12, adam jones <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> hey all >>>> >>>> Being that I don't have Renderman install I can't test these things my >>>> self, >>>> so >>>> >>>> If I had for example a cloud rendered with deep comp values could I >>>> >>>> 1. fly a nuke camera though it and see the changes in opacity and density >>>> as >>>> the camera passes though it >>>> >>>> 2. would there be a way in the 3D environment using the depth values to >>>> have >>>> the cloud represented as a 3D volume, similar to what a ppp can do for >>>> other >>>> 3d renders in nukes 3d environment ? Might have answered my own question >>>> "deep to points"? >>>> >>>> -adam >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Nuke-users mailing list >>>> [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >>>> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Nuke-users mailing list >>> [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >>> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Nuke-users mailing list >> [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users > > _______________________________________________ > Nuke-users mailing list > [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ > http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users _______________________________________________ Nuke-users mailing list [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users
