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[mskin]

im trying to contact Archvision with questions about what product i should purchase for my office, but no one ever answers the phone or returns messages... i've been calling since yesterday afternoon. Is this normal with them, and if so... i guess i would hesitate purchasing a product from them knowing that support is usually even less responsive than sales.

 

I need entourage... many people and foliage, but mostly people. i have onyx and dosch cars so im pretty comfortable with what i have there.... but i need a wide variety of people... students, walking, sitting etc... can anyone give me some good options to research...

 

thanks

[Limbus]

i've been calling since yesterday afternoon.

 

Yesterday afternoon probably means middle of the night in poland, where evermotion is based.

 

 

 

Cheers, Florian

[mskin]

???? ARCHVISION? says kentucky on their web page.

[STRAT]

evermotion are not archvision Florian.

[Limbus]

???? ARCHVISION? says kentucky on their web page.

 

Ooops. Somehow my brain replaced Archvision with Evermotion. Sorry.

[BrianKitts]

I've never had a problem with Archivision's support.... but on the other hand I quit using RPCs a while back a couple of years ago since they don't play well with GI engines.

 

What is the application are you needing these elements for.... stills or animation?

 

The problem with RPCs is that the lighting is baked into their characters and more often than not no attention is payed to the lighting of the character when people insert them. Then you end up with conditions where the character is lit from the left but the scene is lit from the right and in the final shot the people just scream "HEY I'M CG!!"

 

I prefer 3D people in the distance and adding foreground people in post where you can control the lighting and color balance on people to get the most realistic quality.

 

animation is whole different character though....

[STRAT]

if you're professionally serious about your cg i'd personally advise against RPC as well.

[mskin]

yes, i'm am serious. I guess my preference would be to insert people into the scenes in post. typically i spend hours upon hours scouring the internet for people with enough resolution and neutral lite. the scenes i want to populate are similar to the attached - What are your recommendations? i want kids sitting around the table, walking in the corridor, a teacher.

 

thanks

[BrianKitts]

yeah, I definately wouldn't degrade the quality of those renderings with RPCs.

 

my personal fav lately has been GOT3D.com for people.

 

http://store.got3d.com/3d-textures.html

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

I will back the use of RPC's in computer renderings, but only through the PhotoShop RPC plug-in. Never ever use directly in Max.

[John Dollus]

Oh, and this week is pretty much a holiday for most 3d software providers - Siggraph is this week so I would expect delays. Try again on Monday

[salvador]

I once had the commitment to resolve the light with RPC's in Vray. I found that selecting all your RPC's and accesing the RPC properties dialog and turning self-illumination to 0.0 lets them have the light of your scene. Still, I had to go to Vray proerties for those RPC's and turn Receive GI value to about 0.6.

This made them look pretty good and natural (although not enough to win a contest or so. . ). Unfortunately I did this for some company and I don't have anything to show. About Archvision support, well I don'r have RPC's of my own so I really cannot help there.

 

Hope it helps