Cool lightwave plugin/previewer !

#21

HowardM; The graphics coder sighed profoundly upon my eager asking about Volumetrics :slight_smile: . So not in the near future Iā€™m afraid. Shaders are the number one priority for now.

#22

Suppose thereā€™s not a price known yet?

#23

Nope, not yet.

#24

so is this a replace for the openGL window in LW ?
if so will this have super OpenGl speed for Character animation ?:bounce:
Give me a buy button :love:
I WANT IT :buttrock:

#25

Hmmm, would it be possible to script it, so I can replace my use of Macromedia Director with this oneā€¦?

#26

Yes, is most certainly is. And as for animation, if you use FK, absolutely ! For IK, youā€™ld have to bake out the keys. Then turn off Lightwaveā€™s deformations and create your animation within the Pim Previewer with comfortable framerates. Hereā€™s an example of a mocap scene;

http://www.bcdeklamp.be/Enki_Temp/botje.exe

#27

wot:) hehe i am back to office to continue rumble u
are there any chance to see IK fully suported LIKE worley did in near future?
i know it would probable suffer a bit of share data speed but i dont mind if i get frame drop from 60 to 30 as long it is realtime:) lol.
tell guys to do some smart buffering:)
how fast is curent refresh ?
this mocap need frame cleaning:) or da robot is in love with vodka.
how it handle OGL transparency? will it show off ALPHA textures corectly?
and will we be able to see procedurals in future?

#28

Yes, there is full scripting support. (Assigning objects to subscenes, adding sound, tracking subscene animations, switchable surfaces for mouseovers etc.,ā€¦)

#29

I Just tried to run the demo. It went fullscreen and changed my desktop resolution. All my desktop icons have been displaced! :banghead: Cool demo but please warn the users about that resolution change.

#30

Hey, itā€™s Mav3rick again:)

  • Fprime doesnā€™t calculate IK, it just get the shape of the objects from Lightwave. But IK wonā€™t be supported in the near future, shaders are next, then physics.

  • Refresh is instant for surfaces and timeline, and there is a small delay when saving your objects and scene.

  • Instances are sorted to ensure correct rendering of transparant surfaces. Transparant polygons are drawn back face first, then front face. So alpha textures wonā€™t be a problem at all. Thereā€™s also a no Z impression option for glows etc.

  • Procedurals come automatically with GLSL shaders

  • The scene is a Poser scene converted by the programmer , so that figures :twisted:
    If you feel like frame cleaningā€¦:slight_smile:

#31

Sorry about that Dennik,

Exe has been replaced with a windowed version.

#32

Oooh, thats great. Oh happy days! ECMA/JScript type scripting?

#33

btw. how come the lw opengl display is far off and slow if you compare your pim viewer since both are opengl? is it that bad?..

mlon

#34

wout heheh naa thanks i would really like to hang that keys to youā€¦:]

ESHRA: well we could soon see lot of new stuff from ELMAR but i would like wout guys and newtek and elmar put heads together:)

and yea
ESHRA when u will get some coder to update that CHANLUM ? why antti wavk or mlon not want to contribute anymore?

#35

hey mav3rick :slight_smile:

i am mlonā€¦ both antti and wavk are doing different things and are
quit bussy. currently i am in talks with newtek to get the stuff sorted out and get a mac port up but it isnt going fast. there will be an update but i dont know whenā€¦
i hope elmar and consorts will come up with a coolā€™nā€™fast opengl update for lw.

sorry for being off-thread wout, im really excited 'bout PIM :slight_smile:

cheers,

mlon

#36

i wanna pimp my lw :slight_smile:

bring it on wout

#37

Pimp Lugin ?:slight_smile:

Eshra, thatā€™s quite allright :slight_smile:

#38

WOW! Very interesting stuff. I hope this thing can boost LWā€™s OGL performance.

#39

i must be retarted cause i cant get the exe files to openā€¦am i missing somthingā€¦i clickā€¦then get a frozen desktop :banghead:

#40

Hi eshra,

The lw preview in scene from the screenshot is so slow because of the 250k polys in the scene ā€¦ LW really canā€™t handle large polycounts ā€¦ pim has no probs with huge scenes because of much more intelligent culling mechanisms ā€¦

The lw previewer also manages to totally *** spherical reflections ā€¦ and canā€™t really handle
multitexture the way it should. Pim will handle all types of multi-texture (also multi-layer on
the color channel), although the sample screenshot just has diffuse and reflection textures applied ā€¦

The pimtools plugin was originally designed to facilate content creation for products
based on my (distributed, and if so desired stereoscopic ā€¦) pim 3D engine. However, since itā€™s display is way faster than that of LW, and the rendered result is often much closer to
the LW rendered result the plugin works just as well as a ā€˜LW-acceleratorā€™ ā€¦

There are other advantages ā€¦ pimTools runs as a seperate process which means if you
have a multiprocessor or hyperthreading machine, you can work with 1M poly scenes just
as smooth as with no scene loaded ā€¦

If anyone has an opinion about why you would like a plugin like pimTools, I would love
to find out ā€¦ the options i see are :

  • LW acceleration (really cool to be able to preview your camera path smoothly ā€¦)
  • creation of standalone viewer exeā€™s (e.g. kiosk applications, without leaving lw ā€¦)
  • creation of screensavers
  • creation of web-applets (under construction)

And off course, any other creative feedback would be greatly appreciated !