If Octane's round edge shader is as poor as KeyShot's, then I would prefer real geometry.

KeyShot's shader struggles mightily on any but the smallest of settings, especially with CAD models converted to poly's.

Michael (and all),

https://youtu.be/jnTZLh4Na0c

Please consider this video. Forget for a moment that it's focused on decals. What strikes me the most about this video is the relationship between the modeling and then the rendering. Design details which I thought too coarse in the model view, looked correct in the rendering.

I have seen this same phenomena in my own designs when working both in SketchUp and MoI.

I believe this iterative affordance of modeling and rendering quickly is a huge assist for designers and artists. I hope this helps provide further encouragement for the addition of a photoreal rendering or ambient occlusion addition to MoI.

Hello,

Maybe some sort of post-process micro beveling that works at the mesh level could work better than a full auto nurbs fillet idea. (might be part of the mesher ?)
I kinda like the rounded edges at render time, it works very well for stills or normal map baking, and I never had problems with it in Modo and Clarisse.

However, people seems to extract normal maps using SubstanceDesigner now, and last time I checked, there wasn't any round shader available for the baking (but there are so post trick possible once the normal is extracted).
I end up to create a little process in Houdini, that 'voxelize' / decimate / export Moi models, the result was super crisp.

Talking about hard surfacing, this video get lot's a attention lately from non CAD users ^^

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctI-tMc8U7M

Spaceclaim for gun concept :
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/3DJdB

Widget Kitbash Library link seems to be broken anyone still has it?

Maybe here ... http://moiscript.weebly.com/kitbash.html and scroll...

https://filedn.com/lLMW4jXsJqxXkRYjd1UCoKL/markdown/MoiObjLibDontMove/mdwiki.html#!index.md

Sorry, the images and links are down right now (ever since Dropbox quit hosting files). You might be better off with Pilou's version.

Cool: i was affraid about copyright trouble! :)

***NEVER FOR YOU*** Pilou. You do so much for this community! :-)

I agree!!

Pilou: the N. 1 Ambassador of the 3d world!!!

:)

Hello!

I'm new to MoI. I had some fun with these kitbash objects :). Thanks Chipp for making them and thanks pilou for your website!

I found that it will be even easier to use these with Flow. Just a few clicks and you can project them onto your geometry. Using Flow these will even work on curved surfaces.





I added a Flow Surface style to the kitbash item.





And you can project multiple kitbash items together








For curved surfaces you might want to do it in 2 steps. For example in this case I don't want to deform the fan blades and the cutter geometry so I projected them with Rigid option enabled.