[SunlightRocker]

Tim: Rendered with Mental Ray.

DrMerman: Yes.

[Tim Ellis]

Cheers mate.

Dr Merman, you have to set the rules so that each emitter will work with another, if they are not told to do so, they won't.


I spent yesterday trying to do a cloth sim. Bloody hell that ain't simple. The RF3 video tutes are not 100% relevant due to the upgrades in RF4.

If I tried to run a simulation on a cloth wrapped around a figure, then the verts ended up all over the place. If I ran a single stylised plane then it was pretty good.

I managed to get the cloth to deform around a mesh once, but since an RF crash I haven't managed it again.

The rule & exclusion system is a bit confusing, to say the least.

Saving a file that has errors will render that file unuseable. Two of my working cloth tests have been destroyed due to this. So I keep losing the settings.

I'll post a render as soon as I can get a mesh out of RF4. I've done it before for a fluid, but can't seem to crack it for cloth.

How come they couldn't write a more relevant manual, with specific case studies? So we can search for cloth and the relevant elements are suggested.

Tim.

[DrMerman]

Cheers Tim, I figured as much. So its good news all round then?!

[misterasset]

Sunlightrocker, very nice. Is that a "slow motion?" It seems that the water would slosh around faster. Maybe it's just me.

Has anybody is the US gone to look for this yet? I just ran over to Barns&Nobles to buy it but all they had was the December copy, but they said they should get the next issue in on Tuesday. Do you think it'll be the X-Mas issue with Realflow?

[ivox3]

Chris, .... yes. ...the next issue is the one.

btw: ...if you buy it from something like a Barnes & Noble or Border's , ... we get our issue way later due to the import fact.

..expensive too.

[misterasset]

Thanks, I'm glad it takes awhile, otherwise I would have missed it. It looks pretty good actually, maybe I should subscribe. Most of it seems to be tailored towards animators of characters, games, etc. Is there maybe a better publication for someone who does just ArchViz? I mean, some of the techniques would be nice, but not alot of my renderings need fur.

[SunlightRocker]

Sunlightrocker, very nice. Is that a "slow motion?" It seems that the water would slosh around faster. Maybe it's just me.

Thanks.
Yeah, I know. it looks a bit slow, but it wasnt my intention... My best guess is that the scale is of... (not that you really have anything to messure it with in this test... so... I dont know...)Any other ideas? Does someone know if the grid in RF is cm, or what is it?

[glebe digital]

Thanks, I'm glad it takes awhile, otherwise I would have missed it. It looks pretty good actually, maybe I should subscribe. Most of it seems to be tailored towards animators of characters, games, etc. Is there maybe a better publication for someone who does just ArchViz? I mean, some of the techniques would be nice, but not alot of my renderings need fur.

You should check out the 'architects journal' or Monument magazine, purely for a broad perspective of current trends in archviz rendering........3d world is a 20min skim-read at best, I stopped buying it years ago although I did get the RF demo issue.........the mag is still only threadbare content and a morass of ads, I should've spent the money on beer instead.