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Guest · Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 2:57 am Post subject: DirectX Export, Rendering

Just tried out the directx export and having some difficulties. The mesh exports but the textures don't show when viewed with Deep Exploration. The two textures were exported to the directory with a .bmp suffix but apparently not assigned.

I have Povray 3.5 installed and able to render OK. I tried Virtual Light as well OK. However if I render with POV then try to render the same scene with Virtual Light =>No output. (Program not starting)- the reverse holds true

Request. - Having textured an object with UV projector when the object is viewed in the 3d window with textures enabled the object appears white with the texture only showing in one corner. Am I doing something wrong?

Should have mentioned this at the top that I think ppmodeler looks, works well and could be a valuable asset especially for low poly modelling.

Thanks
Matthew

craouette · Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 6:08 pm Post subject: Re: DirectX Export, Rendering

craouette · Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 3:00 pm Post subject:

I checked for the POV/VirtualLight problems...
I don't have it. But I updated the rendering scripts in the latest version,
because there was a bug in the VL script.
Can you download the latest beta and try again ?

pierre

Guest · Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 9:58 am Post subject: Texture View

Thanks. I will try the latest beta. Hope this picture shows

The lower box has a texture projector added with a jpg texture assigned to the whole mesh. Note that only one face shows textured while the rest of the mesh shows white. On the upper box the upper two faces have one projector applied with one texture however only one face shows textured. The lower faces each have a texture projector with different textures - both showing. Just wondering if this is how you designed the program.
Using ATI Radeon 9600SE - Athlon 2600+ - Windows 2000
( Just a side query - Are you still developing the Linux Version? - hope so :))
Thanks once again
Matthew

craouette · Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 8:09 pm Post subject:

I found the problem yesterday. will post a new beta later today or tomorrow.
for, linux, yes, I will.
I want to finish the beta for windows before starting the linux, BeOS/Zeta, and MacOS versions.

pierre

craouette · Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 7:58 am Post subject:

matty4,

I have just uploaded a new beta which correct the texture problem.
sorry for the inconvinient.
can you have a look ?
I can't reproduce the POV/VL problem. can you check ?
if the problem still there, can you send me your scene file (.3de) ?
For the DX export, you talked about Deep Exploration. Is it somethink I can get somewhere to test the generated .x files ?

pierre

Guest · Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 10:54 am Post subject:

Hi .
Please don't be sorry. Obviously you have put a lot of work into the program. Wish I were half as smart.
Anyway the texture problem seems fixed. I haven't been able to reproduce the POV/Virtual Light problem again. I did reinstall PPModeler -maybe that fixed it.
I tried the character tutorial but ran across another problem (oh no!). When defining the view along the x axis the z axis is vertical yaxis horizontal. However when defing the view along the y axis the z axis is horizontal and the x axis is vertical.

I was having trouble working with bones trying to add them but they appeared offset to the manipulator even when I manually set the coordinates of the end points. This may be related to the above??
Selecting a mesh is OK but when you left click on an empty area of the screen the mesh does not deselect. I can deslelect by doing a rectangle select on an empty area of the screen or by choosing deselect all in the control panel but would be nice just to click on an empty area of screen.
I am still getting my head around how some of the functions work. eg 2d Curves. These seem to be only available as a sub function of some other creation function such as tube. Have I missed something.
I will plod on.
Again thanks very much
Matthew

craouette · Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 11:24 am Post subject:

Guest · Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 8:46 pm Post subject:

Thanks. Deep Exploration was a demo I found on an old magazine cover CD. The program is a viewer for various 3D formats. The fullversion is expensive and distributed by Right Hemisphere. I also had an .x mesh viewer (freeware I think) somewhere. I will try to find it for you.
Matthew

RTbaild · Joined: 07 Sep 2021 Posts: 1 Location: Slovenia

Theres a bug in the other renderer.

1 only 1 light works because if you put two lights both will cast shadow even if you
turn of no shadow

2 anti aliasing doesnt work still crisp

render have tried: Sunflow & POV ray

The object export works but it doesnt generate a texture, only export the .obj file and the mtl file when you try opening it in other apps it is looking for the texture example: grass.jpg and it cannot find it because no texture have been generated.

Thanks

craouette · Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2021 12:29 pm Post subject:

which renderer are you talking about?