ViaCad and MForge test

#1

Playing about trying to get a better feeling for ViaCad, although I still find some of the tools to be very unintuitive compared with Modler.
Also having fun with MForge. Strange thing is that I can’t access a lot of the presets because Rampbase keeps giving me an error message every time I try and load it. Anyone else have this problem?
Mike.

#2

if you don´t mind, i have a question about MForge. Does it work also with GI and the Lightplane shader? I´ve seen only images so far which look like if they are made with standard lighting set-ups.

Regards
Stefan

#3

[QUOTE=sacenator]if you don´t mind, i have a question about MForge. Does it work also with GI and the Lightplane shader? I´ve seen only images so far which look like if they are made with standard lighting set-ups.

This is with GI turned on. I haven’t used the Lightplane shader so…
Mike.

#4

Thanks for showing Mike!

Regards
Stefan

#5

I get the Rampbase error with some MF presets, too, because I don’t have the Rampbase schader I guess.

MF works well here with GI. Some examples using MF presets, hdri IBL or RI:

ennepermod1_4
miniholes
modG_2
dodecahedron5_1
dualcube3
eightstrips1
tetrahedron1_1
pyramidtubes7_1
sphereholes3_2
tubering2_1

#6

Nice examples, VK.
Looks like MForge is fine with GI and HDRI.
How about RT reflection skymaps and GI glossy?

JimM

#7

[QUOTE=atlantis23]I get the Rampbase error with some MF presets, too, because I don’t have the Rampbase schader I guess.

You can get the Rampbase shader here:

http://www.konkeptoine.com/

in the free section. I have it in the shader directory, it just doesn’t want to load for some reason.

Freaky models - I like them.

Mike.

#8

Hello, nice Mforge examples… dodecaedron 5-1 is my favorite.

Here I can not open, Material libraries Mforge in EIAS 7.0.1, every time I try EIAS closes…

perhaps there are Mforge libraries updated to UB but can not find them.

someone knows anything about this?

Cheers
Diego

#9

You can find the update request here.

Regards
Stefan

#10

Hola Stefan, I already have Mforge UB and works well, that just could not find Library presets, now the library opens ok:thumbsup:

Thank you very much!

Cheers
Diego

#11

Thanks for the comments and for the Rampbase hint.

I installed the Rampbase shader. However, when I try to load it as a diffuse texture, Animator reports
“The selected file cannot be used as a
texture or shader (missing image data or shading code.)”

When I load an example material using MF and Rampbase, the Rampbase shader is listed in the diffuse maps list. Doubleclicking the shader crashes Animator. The example material is in “Additional_Materials.prj” in the MForge_Samples collection.

Camera reports
“A system API function has returned an unexpected
error number. Library: SCAL Error ID: 2 Error number: -1
File: …/RampBase.shd”

I’m using the current Rampbase (downloaded today), EIAS 7.0.1, iMac G5, OS X 10.4.11.

#12

I guess that Rampbase isn’t UB compatible.

The Gradient shader will do a similar job.
Ian

#13

Just as a matter of interest this is a test done with Maxwell renderer - I just started using it so don’t really know what I’m doing.
Mike.

#14

OOPS, where did the attachment go?

#15

Very nice Spleeve!
Hate to say it, but I like this a lot more than the one you did in EI.

JimM

#16

nice modelas, where from?if u dont mind asharing
thanks

#17

thisa isa a beautyful image.

#18

I strongly assume he used those…:wink:

3D-XplorMath = http://3d-xplormath.org/

TopMod = http://www.topmod3d.org/

K3DSurf = http://k3dsurf.sourceforge.net/

Regards
Stefan

#19

Incredible. Too much solutions avaiable for now on the modeling and the rendering side of the spectrum. Now days is hard to have style so many softwares so many tools.WOW

#20

Yes, the models were made with TopMod and k3dsurf. I used Silo to clean up and export.