New plugin suggestion

[zanderadrian]

I am finishing my degree in Informatics and I have to do the final project. Since it's going to take me time anyway I would rather (try to) do something useful for the community and our general workflow and productivity. A 3ds Max plugin. Considering there are a lot of people with years, maybe decades experience in the business I would like to ask you what plugin would you consider helpful.

What is bothering you, what would you find helpful for your productivity?

 

I am open to any suggestions.

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

Here is a simple one that may actually fall under script category but I would like to have something that automatically named my render output file after my camera name as soon as I hit render.

 

I can do this Sergo's Batch Render, but it would be nice if it was default.

 

If you are looking for something more robust that you can make money off of.... how about something that generates elegant skies/clouds/atmosphere without a lot of work. Something that you could dial a few parameters and hit render. Vray compatible of course.

[fadi3d]

-How about something that could analyze the scene (incl numof lights, intensities, ports and openings)

And suggest appropriate Vray cam settings or lights adjustment.

-something that analyze the scene and the vray rendersettings and suggest things to turn up or down

So that render time is optimized and still meet the desiredquality.

Good luck though.

 

[Francisco Penaloza]

If you are studying something related with programming, I would recommend to to to develop are good batch render, Backburner, it broken and Autodesk do not have any willing to fix it of further develop, there is other renders out there and they are expensive, if you can create something middle ground, at a good price for a small studio or freelancer that would be great.

 

how about something that generates elegant skies/clouds/atmosphere without a lot of work. Something that you could dial a few parameters and hit render. Vray compatible of course.

There is one already develop by E-on and is called Ozone, create incredible skies or use it to create your own HDRI for Lighting .

 

 

-How about something that could analyze the scene (incl numof lights, intensities, ports and openings)

And suggest appropriate Vray cam settings or lights adjustment.

-something that analyze the scene and the vray rendersettings and suggest things to turn up or down

So that render time is optimized and still meet the desiredquality.

Good luck though.

 

so in other words something that just click render and you get your image? really?

[fadi3d]

@Francisco Penaloza

 

yes really (and i can see it in the long run that's where we are heading) my renders are good enough for me, and considering i use renders to show my clients the design i'd rather spend my time designing rather than rendering.

[Nic H]

isnt that called 'solidrocks' ?

 

a vray compatible cloud and sky generator would be amazing - never heard of anyone using ozone sucessfully with vray...

[Francisco Penaloza]

Well maybe you are using the wrong tool for your renderings then, I always heard some architects saying how long take to learn V Ray, or Mental Ray, they just want click and render, but when I ask them why they want to lear V Ray they really don't know, they just heard it was the a good render engine, I Always recomend To them Maxell, Shader Light, Fry render, even Lumion or Lumen RT or something similar, a render engine more design they way they want to work.

But if you really know V Ray or Mental Ray, it wont take long to set up a scene and get the result you need.

[Francisco Penaloza]

isnt that called 'solidrocks' ?

 

a vray compatible cloud and sky generator would be amazing - never heard of anyone using ozone sucessfully with vray...

I use to use Ozone, in a previews company and it works pretty good, yes it is un stable, but latest releases it become pretty good.

But for me it work more solid in Cinema 4d than Max.

I have a tutorial in my website to work with Ozone and Mental Ray, VRay is easy to set up.

[Nic H]

yeh it is still broken from what i have read. it need to integrate smoothly with the arch vis standard vray 2.2 phys cam set up

 

i wanted it for the animation capabilities

 

i looked at your website but the videos are for mental ray and seemed to be playing from a funny player making shockwave flash crash in chrome?

thanks

[fadi3d]

I’ve read about solidrock but never used it.

The thing is I am not trying to be rude or anything but maybe my idea didn'tcome as i intended it to.

The fact is i am not an Architect and I’ve never really studied design itall started as a hobby and I am pleased with my render ability. But wouldn’t itbe nice if setting up a scene took less time?

let's face it if you want a good render with a bit of practice this can bedone in vray but if you want an excellent super photorealistic render well Idon't know if anyone can get that easily especially as every new render ordesign comes with new materials etc...

Now returning to my idea and elaborating (maybe this is a bit too much toask for) let’s say I need I new material, then I Iog in to the manufacturersite and download the settings (much like Ies data) and speaking of Ies theydon’t work as they should exactly in Max (I’ve read an article about it by Pierre-Felix Breton) so what aboutsomething that fixes that automatically.

Thank u all.

[Francisco Penaloza]

i looked at your website but the videos are for mental ray and seemed to be playing from a funny player making shockwave flash crash in chrome?

thanks

 

I'll take a look on that, it suposed to be flash, I may have to update it to youtube or something like that much better, and I'll do and update with V Ray too.

[Francisco Penaloza]

Hey maybe you can joint forces with this guy that is trying to create a crowd simulator,

That would be great

http://forums.cgarchitect.com/72808-crowd-system-development-ideas-you-2.html#post372458

 

Fadi, you are not being rude, I understan where you are coming, but for me is like, when you take a nice photo and show it to your friends and the first thing they ask you is "what camerea did you use" there is not credit at all to the craft and hours spended of the photographer to capture and process that image?

Photorealistic renderings do not come from the software it self but from the person who spend serious hours working on them, yes software make it easy every day but presets stadard will take you so far and to create a great image you need more freedom.

Again if you want to stream you workflow there is softwares already that will help you with no problems.

 

Sorry for getting out of the thread

[zanderadrian]

First of all sorry for the delayed answer. It's one of those busy times.

 

I will look into what is being developed by ozone (regarding the sky generator ) to get a feel of what is out there and see if it's worth taking another shot at something that is being developed by another team.

 

Regarding the "solidrocks" type of plugin I think it would take from the thing that makes us who we are. It would be a step further to having an out of the box 3clicks render software and there is Lumion and other programs for that. The small, user defined settings and tweaks make the render stand out of the crowd. Just my opinion.

 

Third, thank you Francisco for the suggestion, the problem is that the project has to be done entirely be me so a collaboration in this case would not be accepted.

 

I will keep you posted and ask for opinions as soon as I have news. Thank you!