Planetary Project Tutorial ... Take 2

2006-01-03 Thread studio
Hi All : Thanks to some gentle and very effective suggestions by Robert Den Broeder I've redone the Planetary Project . http://www.studiodynamics.net/tutes/planet1.html Please check it out , as I've added a dozen or so Real- Soft V5 renders to it , as well as much more detailed step-by -s

RE: Planetary Project Tutorial ... Take 2

2006-01-03 Thread Karl.Ruben.Pettersen
Hi Garry and all Looking very interresting indeed. Nice to see my "material" actually have some uses :-) Oh, and a late merry Christmas and happy new year to all. I've been far to busy with other stuff lately; RS3D has dropped down on the priority list. Regards Karl >Hi All : > > Thanks to

Re: Planetary Project Tutorial ... Take 2

2006-01-03 Thread Neil Cooke
A winner Garry, I've redone the Planetary Project Christmas presents from Niagara are indeed generous. Very many thanks, Neil Cooke - Original Message - From: "studio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 9:47 PM Subject: Planetary Project Tutorial ... Take 2

Re: Happy new year grom Germany and good luck for RS Version 6 :-)) and more "beginner" tutorials ;-)

2006-01-03 Thread studio
Hi Neil : Please forgive my 'top-post' to your elaborate mail . I do hope that Realsoft inc takes the time to ponder your sit- uation , considering how positive a result you are having with your Renderings-To-Print success story . Myself , and my latest crusade concerning the RS community,

Re: Planetary Project Tutorial ... Take 2

2006-01-03 Thread studio
> > http://www.studiodynamics.net/tutes/planet1.html > A winner Garry, > Christmas presents from Niagara are indeed generous. > Very many thanks, > Neil Cooke Hey Neil : Not surprising , I was actually thinking about you when doing this tute , since I know you so do love the landscape potenti

Re: Happy new year grom Germany and good luck for RS Version 6 :-)) and more "beginner" tutorials ;-)

2006-01-03 Thread Neil Cooke
Hi Garry, No tutorial needed since the way to render as "bmp" is all that is needed and is in "render options" as well as the manual. Get your models done, line up the lights, set your "camera" and render to file as bmp. Tutorial finished. Print requirements depend entirely on printing devic

Video Tutorials for RS / Apps for same - Formally: Happy new year grom Germany ....

2006-01-03 Thread Aidan O Driscoll
Hi Guys, Re - video / audio / screen capture for tutorial vids, here are some ideas. Free where possible: Windows Media Encoder (free) - specific to windows though: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/encoder/default.aspx I have not tried this out, but I am sure if one uses the W

Re: Planetary Project Tutorial ... Take 2

2006-01-03 Thread Neil Cooke
Hi Garry, I just sent the Printer thing and then re-read it, I shouldnt have done that since there are some errors like the 8000x5600 thing is the final file size when I had previous mentioned file size calcs as a different formula. Anyway, just to mention that there are errors but the main thrus

Re: Video Tutorials for RS / Apps for same - Formally: Happy new year grom Germany ....

2006-01-03 Thread George Jenner
My little boy uses aviscreen classic (freeware) to capture video from the screen for school projects - http://www.bobyte.com/ I'm using Microsoft Movie Maker2 with 9 year olds and they can cope with it. PCAdvisor UK Feb edition had a ULead video editor on the cover disk - it looks more compet

Re: Video Tutorials for RS / Apps for same - Formally: Happy new year grom Germany ....

2006-01-03 Thread Aidan O Driscoll
Hi George and all, Good stuff George. What I was thinking of was one stop shop simple apps / workflow that would record the screen as you go while also recording the audio from your microphone live - all in one. Then commit to a video file or Flash file and upload. Minimum of steps! Reason f

Re: A little script - a little update

2006-01-03 Thread Zaug
I have posted an updated version of my Real GreebleZ script. This version updates the screen automatically when the script is finished running a greebling process; this is in answer to the bug Timo pointed out. You can get it at the same location: http://www.catmtn.com/realgreeblez.php Zaug -

Re: Planetary Project Tutorial ... Take 2

2006-01-03 Thread Mark Heuymans
At 03:47 AM 1/3/2006 -0500, you wrote: Hi All : Thanks to some gentle and very effective suggestions by Robert Den Broeder I've redone the Planetary Project . http://www.studiodynamics.net/tutes/planet1.html Please check it out , as I've added a dozen or so Real- Soft V5 renders to it ,

Re: A little script - a little update

2006-01-03 Thread Mark Heuymans
At 08:53 AM 1/3/2006 -0700, you wrote: I have posted an updated version of my Real GreebleZ script. This version updates the screen automatically when the script is finished running a greebling process; this is in answer to the bug Timo pointed out. You can get it at the same location: http:/

RE: Planetary Project Tutorial ... Take 2

2006-01-03 Thread Robert den Broeder
Thanks for your most kind words, Garry :D I am having fun maintaining my website and I am happy to hear it is so well received! Best regards, Robert http://members.ams.chello.nl/rbroeder > -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens studio > Ve

Re: Planetary Project Tutorial ... Take 2

2006-01-03 Thread Aidan O Driscoll
Hi Garry and all, Result from doodling with your Planetary tutorial mixed with a sun scene I did a while back: http://www.tidalsound.com/3dstuff/sun_scene.jpg Cheers Aidan At 08:47 03/01/2006, you wrote: Hi All : Thanks to some gentle and very effective suggestions by Robert Den Broede

Re: Video Tutorials for RS / Apps for same - Formally: Happy new year grom Germany ....

2006-01-03 Thread studio
> If making these tutes involves > compositing seperate audio and video OR if there is any grunt work involved > in doing same - the number of people willing to participate in a potential > RS video tute library will be very small. - ITS HUMAN NATURE - also people > have other things to do in t

Lead a Horse to Water was : some :-)) and more "beginner" tutorials ;-)

2006-01-03 Thread studio
Hi Neil : Man , that is some huge post of good info . I really have to ask , however , with a little imagination could you not have used some of this info in a very small tutorial ? You say no need for a tute , then you write this big long email (that will disappear forever into the void i

Re: Lead a Horse to Water was : some :-)) and more "beginner" tutorials ;-)

2006-01-03 Thread Neil Cooke
Hi Garry, Yeah, it got away from me, it was after midnight, sorry about the "book". Regardless of format, it's hard data so will be text heavy. I'll do a bit of work on it sometime and post it to my site ... maybe send a copy to Robert too in case he feels it would be useful on his site. Tha

Re: Shadow Error

2006-01-03 Thread Neil Cooke
Third try no attachments since these fail. The JPG mentioned is at   http://www.neico.co.nz/3d/RS3DImageFilesToPrint.html   and so is the "Guidelines to Getting Image Files to Printers" ... it's not a tutorial.   Anyway, hoping there's an answer to the Shadow error I've run into,   Neil

RE: Video Tutorials for RS / Apps for same - Formally: Happy new year grom Germany ....

2006-01-03 Thread Ross Hopkins
>Hi Aidan : > > Same applies to making HTML tutorials , of course , but as I've said , >there are so many good and totally free HTML editors out there that I >wouldn't even consider trying to list them here . > > So why then do so few people bother to take the time to create tute's ? >(just a ret

Re: Shadow Error

2006-01-03 Thread Mungenast & Standley
Hi Neil, I have had similar puzzling thingies with large file. Are you using massing nested instances? You say it is only with older objects? Analyticals? Convert to something else? What type of light fixture with what type of shadow? Try changing to direct. Or spot with raytrace and 0 shadow qual

Re: Video Tutorials for RS / Apps for same - Formally: Happy new year grom Germany ....

2006-01-03 Thread studio
> WOW! Great post Garryand you are right about the FEAR factor...well for > me anyhow, that is the fear of the tutes not being good enough. > I would complete a tute, think it was OK, then later decide that it is not > very good so don't even get to post it on the web > ...something I have

RE: Video Tutorials for RS / Apps for same - Formally: Happy new year grom Germany ....

2006-01-03 Thread Ross Hopkins
>Hi Rossco : > > Thanks , and good luck with your lighting problem . I got to tell you >though , it was so much better being able to look at your renders on a >web page than in an email ! Can't explain it really , but once on your >site I almost felt compelled to try and help , somehow . > > Ch

Re: Shadow Error

2006-01-03 Thread Neil Cooke
Hi Chris, Thanks for your reply. I can't attach the file so I posted it to my site again. Below is some more guess work. Anyway, the file and new test results which are meaningless to me link is as before http://www.neico.co.nz/3d/RS3DImageFilesToPrint.html In this state it shows th

RE: Shadow Error

2006-01-03 Thread Karl.Ruben.Pettersen
Title: Message Hi   I once had a similar problem, but unfortunately I'm not sure how I dealt with it, or how or by whom I got help from (maybe from Vesa?). I think the problem was either related to cylinders, imported v3.x cylinders, or imported cutted elliopsoids (curved conecylinder sortof)