[vbs_muc]

Good morning,

in addition to the discussion about mapping decals within the SW plugin, I was wondering how the image I linked below was done:

http://www.maxwellrender.com/plugins/so ... _adman.jpg

This is actually taken from the SW plugin examples on the Maxwell Render homepage. ... I asssume, this is just modeled in SW then further processed in MXStudio, right? ... Because I don't see how this could be done within the plugin....

Your thoughts....?

Regards
Roberto

[Eric Lagman]

Im not sure how that was done, but it could all be done using split faces from inside solidworks. There are no gradation or multi-colors in the artwork that look like they would have to be done in studio.

I am holding out hope that 2009 allows for some type of decal mapping to be added somehow by JD. I haven't messed with the beta, but from what I briefiely read on the forums there is still no native texture mapping like cubic, cylindrial, planer etc except through the PW interface.

[JDHill]

I remember that one:

All LCD text trimmed out of planar surface then placed 2mm above metallic shader with 50% roughness.
Glass then 2mm above text.

( http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... 386#134386 )

About decals - there are two issues here: mappings and decals. Mappings I intend to get done using 'Appearances' in the SW2008 API. This implies that you will be using RealView (try turning it on, assigning a textured appearance, then going to the 'mapping' tab of the appearance editor - there are some different mappings available there). As for decals, in the 2008 API I can also access the SW decal information, but with decals, access has never been the real issue - Maxwell really doesn't currently have any way of dealing with something like decals, and I haven't yet thought of any any way to fake them.