Still plugging away on workflows. Now playing around with 3DCoat -> Toolbag (baking) -> AE Element 3D -> VR
Another one I want to try is MoI3D (hi-rez poly and lo-rez poly meshes) -> 3D Coat (voxelize and add detail to high poly mesh then retopo and UV normal/displacement map using MoI low poly mesh). If I can get that to work it would be *very cool.*
I also just received the gift of a Vive to start playing around with (but I have to use Unity...)
One other thing. If possible (and it's not too much trouble) could you possible upload your large images as the code below? This way it doesn't force the whole browser (and other messages) to go wide. Once someone 'clicks' on the image it will open in a new tab at full resolution. Thanks!
@chippwalters
This way it doesn't force the whole browser (and other messages) to go wide. Once someone 'clicks' on the image it will open in a new tab at full resolution. Thanks!
Yes!This is a feature should be implemented by default Michael... ;)
> You wrote : "Another one I want to try is MoI3D (hi-rez poly and lo-rez poly meshes) -> 3D Coat (voxelize and add detail to high poly mesh then retopo and UV normal/displacement map using MoI low poly mesh). If I can get that to work it would be *very cool.*"
Yes! Worflow Moi3D -> 3DCoat is absolutely amazing in order to retouch Mechanical things made in Moi3D to make them more natural and organic!!
It's one of my favorites workflow :)
> You wrote ; "One other thing. If possible (and it's not too much trouble) could you possible upload your large images as the code below? This way it doesn't force the whole browser (and other messages) to go wide. Once someone 'clicks' on the image it will open in a new tab at full resolution. Thanks!"
Thanks a lot for the suggestion. ASAP I will try it.
About InsatntLight it's true that it has a not finished UI, but their new RC1 to RC4 versions are AMAZING from the point of view of SPEED
and QUALITY of the realtime PBR rendering ind DirectX 11 e 12.
If they will improve a bit its UI, InstantLight will be a very valid and powerful tool.
I think, MUCH MUCH more powerful than the more famous Mormorset Toolbag 3.
> This way it doesn't force the whole browser (and other messages) to go wide. Once someone
> 'clicks' on the image it will open in a new tab at full resolution. Thanks!
>
> Yes!This is a feature should be implemented by default Michael... ;)
I've managed to modify the forum so that wide images will automatically be shrunken down, when it happens a text label "Image has been resized, click for full size." will appear below the image and if you click on the image the full sized image should open up in a new tab.
If you want the old behavior of no size limiting, you can disable it under forum Options > "Display" section > disable "Resize images and reflow page to prevent horizontal scrolling." checkbox.
You're all welcome! I also added in a link to the "light" version on the forum login page to use for mobile. That one uses no frames and simplified text output.
Just another very interesting workflow involving in this case, not MOI, but only Rocket3F, 3D-Coat, InstantLight and Affinity Photo.
This workflow complements the other one that I'm already testing and using with very good results, that is Moi->3DCoat.
Look at this resources :
A Realtime recorded video with water and rain effects!
The original video was recorded in FullHD but I made a mistake during Youtube upload and the final
quality is very bad (360p).
I'm currently exploring similar pipelines. I've been hired by a large east coast consumer products company to help create their AR/VR product visualization strategy. I'm now working on bringing CAD files into a virtual environment and being able to view it on a Vive headset. In particular, I'm exploring workflows and pipelines into Unity and UE4. I suspect there may be some tutorials along those lines, as well as CAD (in my case MoI) -> 3D Coat -> Marmoset (optional) -> UE4 and/or Unity.
Stay tuned for what I hope is an interesting discussion :-)
@chippwalters "CAD (in my case MoI) -> 3D Coat -> Marmoset (optional) -> UE4 and/or Unity."
A very interesting and effective workflow !
If I think about that only 5-7 years ago all these kind of stuff where the exclusive preserve of super pro users with a very high knowledge and super hardware...
Instead now, with some weeks spent to learn the Retopo/Uv/Baking/Texturing fundamentals with the help of some good online course and a fairly decent hardware, with all this very cheap software we can create decent things with a good 3d quality! And only with some hours of work!!
Incredible ...
Of course all these PBR realtime technologies can't absolutely reach the photorealistic quality of a classical Biased/Unbiased render engine,
and in fact for the moment the only thing that I really don't love too much of PBR is that often all the renderings have a 3D Game quality.
Or, at least, for the moment I'm not able to obtain better results :)
But...we can't have everything we want :)
@chippwalters "Stay tuned for what I hope is an interesting discussion :-)"
Hey Chipp - I've just picked up a Vive - really interested to see your workflow to get everything cracking in VR. BTW Jama is busily working away in Medium for Oculus. You should try it out, like a super basic voxel environment in VR...I'm guessing he'll be sharing this on Learn Squared soon.
Strata is looking for beta testers who have a VR ready computer and the full HTC Vive set to help test Strata's upcoming VR app for visualizing projects on the HTC Vive.
If you, or someone you know, might be interested, send an email to vrbeta@strata.com.
My primary goal is to try and create as real as possible virtual environments where product models can be loaded in one of many use-case scenes. I'd like to try and see if the Vive controllers can be used to interact with the scene elements.
Yes, I've heard of the voxel based Occulus modeler. It looks pretty cool and I'm interested in what Jama will come up with. I haven't had the time lately to don my Rift and check it out-- and I probably won't any time soon as I'm pretty much booked with the Vive project right now. I'll keep folks posted as I figure things out.
