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lllab
02-14-2003, 06:07 PM
hi there,
in the german c4dtreff.de cinema community is a link for an hdrishop to cinema plugin.it reads text data writen out of hdrshop into cinema and converts it to lights in cinema.

something like 50grey in oldtimes but far more accurate, for it takes the data from real hdri images.

link:
http://mitglied.lycos.de/ipharao/HDR/

cheers

stefan
lllab

AdamT
02-14-2003, 06:11 PM
Thanks for the link.

ThirdEye
02-14-2003, 06:15 PM
great news, they used this technique for the Adidas basketball spot with a mechanical player

FusionDG
02-14-2003, 06:28 PM
Thx :thumbsup:

lllab
02-14-2003, 06:55 PM
well i must say, this plugin is not by me. i just posted the link from the german c4dtreff.

the honor goes to the german guy, not me:)

stefan
lllab

mwa
02-15-2003, 12:58 AM
Thanks alot for posting this!

Jake-L
02-15-2003, 06:48 AM
I like this plug. With a little tweaking, you get a nice GI lighting without the rendering overhead. I believe the author's webpage is here: http://savards.fuzehost.com/index.php.

Btw, I think that Paul Everett's LightPro 2 is a must-have companion for this plugin.

Stray
02-16-2003, 02:13 AM
I can't get my lightgen plug out of HDRShop to work. It seems to freeze . I get an empty window that gives me an execute and a cancel button. It came up with the actual interface once and I followed the tutorials. Has anyone else had this problem. also the file that I import. is it the .pfm file?

Any help would be appreciated!!

-Stray

Jake-L
02-16-2003, 06:39 AM
For Lightgen, the HDR source image should be in Latitude/Longitude format and really small, something like 128 x 64 pixels. With bigger images, Lightgen will freeze. So, all you have to do is to scale your source image in HDRShop.

There is a bug in HDRShop where the app will report a plugin failure, but LightGen will still create the output file (provided the image is 128x64). For HDRShop/C4D import, the target format should be a simple text file. The pdf format is, I believe, the internal format for LightGen.

VestanPance
02-16-2003, 08:51 AM
Originally posted by Stray
I can't get my lightgen plug out of HDRShop to work. It seems to freeze . I get an empty window that gives me an execute and a cancel button. It came up with the actual interface once and I followed the tutorials. Has anyone else had this problem. also the file that I import. is it the .pfm file?

Any help would be appreciated!!

-Stray

Be sure to read all about it here:

http://www.ict.usc.edu/~jcohen/lightgen/lightgen.html

Look under "Usage"

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