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I already post this in rhino newsgroup but for those of you that don't go there, here is a small movie showing what rhino can do in realtime.
It's far from the quality of maxwell, but it's pretty good already.

http://www.divshare.com/download/292249-62d

That's realtime ?! :O pretty impressive. But how did you do it ?

/ Max

That's really neat hyltom. I would've guessed it was Flamingo or something, not Rhino.

Did you make that movie Hyltom? what are the settings to do this?

I will show you and tell you more about it, but i have no time to setup what i have in mind. So i guess you need to wait...sorry!

Is that a real time shadow projecting on the floor ?

Thomas An. wrote:Is that a real time shadow projecting on the floor ?

No, it's just a transparency map apply on a dark grey surface.

hyltom wrote:

Thomas An. wrote:Is that a real time shadow projecting on the floor ?

No, it's just a transparency map apply on a surface.

aaah, you tricky ... but it would have been an extra cool surprise if Rhino could do real time shadows as well.

Since the new version of rhino, we get a really good realtime preview, as you have seen in my previous movie. But the rhino material are not so realistic compared to maxwell. So i had the following problem: how can I get the maxwell material in realtime with rhino? So i have done some experimentation and find a solution.
Here is my result: http://www.divshare.com/download/307032-8d7

I haven't so much time to spend on that, but i hope, in the coming days, i can make some more materials and share them with you. My only problem is that i would like to have these materials appear in a library (like for the maxwell material) and just slide them on an object to apply them to it. So if someone know how to do that ...JDHill maybe . Anyway, any help will be welcome.

Hi hyltom,

It's possible...but you want me to keep working on the Maxwell plugin, right?

Keeping a list of Rhino materials wouldn't be very complicated, but making them drag-drop would be. Have you thought, maybe you could make a .3dm with your materials in it, import it to new drawings, and use the Match function to apply them to your objects?

Just an idea.

JD

JDHill wrote:Hi hyltom,

It's possible...but you want me to keep working on the Maxwell plugin, right?

Keeping a list of Rhino materials wouldn't be very complicated, but making them drag-drop would be. Have you thought, maybe you could make a .3dm with your materials in it, import it to new drawings, and use the Match function to apply them to your objects?

Just an idea.

JD

Keep working on maxwell plugin, that's the most important and as a new version of maxwell is coming, you should be quite busy at this time. Maybe someone else can help me about the library creation. About the drag-drop, i can leave without it. A simple "apply to material" button can make me very happy already.

Maximus3D wrote:That's realtime ?! :O pretty impressive. But how did you do it ?

/ Max

I have share some of the map, so you can try by yourself. FOr more detail, see here: http://news2.mcneel.com/scripts/dnewswe ... 6261&utag=

And please give me some feedback, material request...

Thats so sick!!! I cant wait to try it....

Thanks for the links, f'ing impressive.

I just post a new movie to show you how it works on a product (boombox).
Download the file (ZIP) and open the html.
http://www.divshare.com/download/392776-cbb