FlytE Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 Has anyone had any experience with RTRE? Having been an amatuer games level designer for a number of years, the thought of a fully interactive virtual reality environment is somethign i find quite exciting and potentially incredibly useful. I had a look at rtre recently but was slightly disappointed by it. Ok yes its novel and it does the job, but the quality of the rendered environment is really not what i would come to expect. What really bothers me is that I could build a computer game level of a scheme that would look 'pretty' realistic, would be very atmospheric and fully interactive - but would have no way to distribute it in a legal licensed and portable format. I downloaded some rtre examples off turbosquid and I was wondering if its possible to use other renderers with it like vray to try and get a more realistic environment? Any thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesTaylor Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 couldn't you render the scene in vary and then bake the materials catching the soft lighting etc in the textures? then use these in your real time applicaion? it is an area i have little experience of but something i keep meaning to explore! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlytE Posted March 7, 2006 Author Share Posted March 7, 2006 I too am not very familiar with this as i have not been using vray long. Ill have a look at 'baking' and see whats up with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesTaylor Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 could you post your finds i'd be interest how you get on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DennisHolland Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 RTRE is not worth it's money. The only capability is that you can view/walk somewhat through a scene with quality at 65% of original rendering. Difficult, complex/annoying workspace and very expensive. Allready thought about another tool? BS contact is great, Anark hmm...not all that and for just a presentation, straight from your HD there's Blender. It has a standard radiosity calc. nice and smooth movement etc. Dennis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 If you already have Vray you could probably bake, then get the model into Blender and set up the walkaround, so the whole thing would still be a Vray render. It's free and it's got a built in game engine maker, but I have no idea how to use it. The files you end up with would be huge (depending on the resolution you bake at) and would probably play best on a computer with a heck of a lot of video card memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DennisHolland Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 Blender is your solution. It is a bit strange at first, but the results are cool. They (Blender) even started their dev. dept. again after two years of silence. Bake your maps at 1024px and you'll walk around full screen without a shake. The only problem with baking are the brick textures lose their detail but it certainly is worth a try... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlytE Posted March 9, 2006 Author Share Posted March 9, 2006 thanks for some great feedback, I will have a look at this and get back with results! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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