Material/Texture project


#1

Hey Everyone,
I don’t know how usable this might be to everyone but I am creating a project of all of the standard EI textures that come with v8.0 and my textures (NX Shader) into one EI project file.

I have used a null as the folder heading (example: Skin & Leather which corresponds to the folders on my Mac) and then linked each cube (model file) that has animated visibility enabled on in order to create a .mov file with all the textures in it. I am then going to import single frames into the all the textures in the project file and then save them out over the current .mtr files via the Material Palette inside of EI so that any texture that is imported will come with a preview of what the texture looks like.

My questions are, would this be valuable for everyone to have making it available for download to all users? Is there a free software program that will split all of the frames out of my texture movies into single .jpg files? I have also created a “Set” that will show which files have the NX Shader in it so they can be filtered if you don’t have NX Shader.

Let me know everyone.

Material/Texture Folder headings are:
-Brick & Block
-Fabric & Textiles
-Flooring & Tiles
-Fruit & Veg
-Glass
-Hi-Tech & Hi-Gloss
-Landscaping
-Liquids
-Metal
-Paper & Cardboard
-Rubber
-Skin & Leather
-Space
-Stone & Ceramic
-Tree
-Wall Finishes
-Wood
ZZ Miscellaneous

Buggsy


#2

How about Ice & Snow?


#3

Ice & snow is reserved for Canada’s users, you don’t need it down south… :smiley:


#4

LOL! I don’t know, Richard. Those people in New York would probably beg to differ. LOL!


#5

It was -1º F this morning at my place in Utah and I still have over a foot of snow on my lawn. There is more snow forecast for tomorrow. So please feel free to include snow and ice. It would be nice to have snow I don’t have to use a snow blower on.

Ross


#6

This would be very cool, if you want to send me the .mov file, I can convert it to Jpegs for you…


#7

Does Electric Image do subsurface scattering? Is there a way to fake it if it does not do it?


#8

yep, it’s in the transmission tab


#9

Reginald,
You’ll find a nice setup from Michael B. for SSS in this thread:
http://www.eitechnologygroup.com/forums/viewthread/911/


#10

You guys are the best! I’m glad I made the reinvestment in EIAS 8. The community is very professional and supportive. Thank you.


#11

Yep, subsurface scattering works and works well (based on several tests with several spheres). Can’t wait to use this particular feature on a job.


#12

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