Rhinoceros News Blog

[Antisthenes]

very useful for announcements if you don't follow the newsgroup

 

http://blog.rhino3d.com/

[Fran]

Thanks for the heads up Jonas.

[Fran]

This edge softening plugin is way cool! I wouldn't have known about it except that Bob blogged about it yesterday.

 

http://en.wiki.mcneel.com/default.aspx/McNeel/EdgeSoftening.html

 

It works with fryrender and any other RDK-compliant render engine. When you install the plugin, Edge Softening becomes an object property that you can enable and set parameters.

 

This is a very (very, very) quick render I did with fryrender:

[Antisthenes]

yes it makes a great difference

 

how did you get fryrender to work i am still getting DLL errors trying to load the demo, witch RDK do you have to make it go?

[Fran]

Hi Jonas,

 

You use the latest RDK that is available from McNeel. If you are running xp64, you still need to download and install the 32-bit version of the demo and install that first. Then install the 64-bit version. I only mention this because I was having dll errors until I did that.

 

BTW, the Curve Piping plugin is very cool too, and also works with fryrender (and any other RDK-compliant renderer). It's like having renderable splines (ala 3ds Max). To demonstrate, I very quickly created a box and extracted the wireframe, then set the curve piping object property to .5. I think it is actually much nicer than the Max equivalent.