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New SimBall for displacement materials
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 6:01 pm
by m-Que
Since the release of displacement in Maxwell 1.6, an old SimBall Preview Scene seems to be not a perfect option for Dispalcement Materials. Simple applying material-to-scene isn't working that good with dispalcement, plus in the end there are some artifacts left. This all makes material preview not very impressive. Maybe that's a right time to create a new preview scene, specially for Displacement.
Anyone agree?
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 6:03 pm
by Bubbaloo
I think Maximus or someone made one.
It's just a flat plane in the simball scene.
Truthfully I would like to have one of that sort but with a slightly curved surface.
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 6:09 pm
by m-Que
Can some PLEASE share this scene!
Anyways, when uploading material to the MXMGallery, you HAVE TO use SimBall by default. You can upload the better one only as an additional example. So I was thinking of an official NL scene, that would look different. Plus when browsing through the images, one would know which material has displacement.
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 6:22 pm
by Maximus3D
Yes Bubba, i did modify Thomas An's scene. And my modifications were really simple as a standard plane does a good enough job to let you preview displacement. Atleast for non-curved surfaces this works just fine. And you can easily rebuild this yourself and then save it as a new scene in the same dir as the original simball scene is saved for quick and easy access.
The plane's position and rotation is as follows.
Pos: -0,011 0,043 -0,716
Rot: 45,204 49,122 0,062
/ Max
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 6:25 pm
by m-Que
Thank You, Max!
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 7:08 pm
by Bubbaloo
I'm testing one with a slightly curved plane right now.
I'll make it available if anyone wants to try it or tweak it.
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 7:22 pm
by Bubbaloo
Here is the mxs file:
http://www.divshare.com/download/3428775-b00
And a preview (not my material):
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 7:48 pm
by m-Que
Yes, it works:
BEFORE:
AFTER:
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 9:09 pm
by Mattia Sullini
M-que...i missed your mat! It's amazing!
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 10:23 am
by def4d
Awesome SimPizza
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 1:08 pm
by Maximus3D
Hehe yeah i love that pizza material
it's great! you shoulda won something with this, it bothers me you didn't win anything with it.
/ Max
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 2:45 pm
by m-Que
Thanks everyone! Glad you like that pizza material. If it didn't win anything, I guess it wasn't good enough
, but oh well, maybe next time...
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 4:12 pm
by sandykoufax
wow, very nice pizza material. looks yummy.
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 10:41 pm
by KurtS
great pizza material!
About your scenes, Bubbaloo and Maximus: IMHO it would be better to see the displaced material a bit more from one side, not just a frontal view...