mathes Posted October 1, 2003 Share Posted October 1, 2003 Hi there. This is my first post here, I figured this would be the best place to get some help, since I see some beautiful work on these forums. I'm making an animation for a new condo development in Camrose, AB. This is surrounded by mountains, and many many trees. I'm wondering if you have any advice on how I can represent all of these trees, keeping in mind that the animation goes all around the building. I'm using a two-plane tree right now, but it is looking quite repetitive. Also, lighting. Right now I have 10 directional lights. One at each 45 degrees, including one sun. And two pointing straight down and straight up. It doesnt look too bad, but I'm guessing there is a better way. Also, I'm using maya. Thank you for any help, Jeremy Mathes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted October 1, 2003 Share Posted October 1, 2003 RPC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Cassil Posted October 1, 2003 Share Posted October 1, 2003 in case strats post was a little vague. www.rpcnet.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted October 1, 2003 Share Posted October 1, 2003 yeah, sorry archvision recently created a maya interface Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Cassil Posted October 1, 2003 Share Posted October 1, 2003 Just realized your mention of using maya. The rpc plugin for maya isn't ready quite yet. But I believe it will be released shortly along with the new version. As far as lighting goes, I haven't used maya so I couldn't give you any specifics on global illumination for that package exept to say try looking into using some sort of GI. If your not familiar with that at all you should know that GI doesn't always work in animation, or at least you will be looking at tremendous rendering times to make it work. Here is a setup for faking GI. It outlines the process in max but the principles will work in maya as well I'm sure. Credit here to most honorable CGA member DelfoZ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Cassil Posted October 1, 2003 Share Posted October 1, 2003 archvision recently created a maya interface Really? I just checked the website and I didn't see on the list of plugins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted October 1, 2003 Share Posted October 1, 2003 hmmm, praps they havent updated their site. they definately released one, it was big news recently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathes Posted October 1, 2003 Author Share Posted October 1, 2003 Wow, quick responses. I'm going to try the Fakiosity posted above. I do have mental ray with this version of maya, but the render time would be too great. And hearing that RPC's are out for maya now made my day. I'll have to look into that further. Thank you all for the help. Jeremy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathes Posted October 1, 2003 Author Share Posted October 1, 2003 I setup the 3-ring system for my lighting, and on the side with the sun, it looks great. Much better than before. However, it makes the backside appear quite flat. I think i may need to add some lights back there to create subtle shadows. Once again, thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schmoron13 Posted October 1, 2003 Share Posted October 1, 2003 how about posting examples so that we can offer suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathes Posted October 1, 2003 Author Share Posted October 1, 2003 I did some tweaking with the lights, and I'm very happy with the results. The backside is no longer flat. As for posting examples, I would have to check with the supervisor first, I'm not too sure if that's a big issue or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 Hey Mathes, I see you are from Calgary. Who do you work for? Manataray Digital? BTW, if you like I can see if there is a beta program for that Maya plugin, mayve I can get you in so you can use it on this project. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathes Posted October 2, 2003 Author Share Posted October 2, 2003 Hi Jeff. That's freaky, good guess. I went to the ArchVision website to see if they had a demo of RPC for maya, but none was listed. If there is a beta program for it, I would love to test it out. They used it here for 3dsMax and the results were very nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted October 3, 2003 Share Posted October 3, 2003 Hey Mathes, I'll look into the Maya plugin and see what I can come up with. Well it was not too hard to guess that you were probably at MRD becuase you are the only medium size studio, other than in-house work at architecural fims that do architect viz work in Calgary. Well you and now Smoothe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted October 3, 2003 Share Posted October 3, 2003 Look like a public beta is very near on the horizon. I'll post more news here when they are ready. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted October 6, 2003 Share Posted October 6, 2003 Sign up here if you want to be involved in the Maya RPC beta: http://www.archvision.com/Maya/beta.cfm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathes Posted October 6, 2003 Author Share Posted October 6, 2003 That's great! I'm really excited to see how well RPC works. Thanks a ton, Jeremy Mathes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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