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Re: Sweet Home 3D 3.0
Emmanuel,
- 1 - "matt" = without brilliance "matte" = is a term from film making (wikipedia )
- 2 - I'm not sure I understand what you mean with this behaviour. But, as you said, v3.0 introduces some major changes, so one more shouldn't be too big a problem. Means just more questions on the forum :-)
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Re: Sweet Home 3D 3.0
Puybaret, Thanks for your answer. And maybe what I am seeing is only a difference of tweaks made between the two renderers. I only have time to show a very small sample of what I see as sun shadows unfortunately, but maybe it will give you an idea of what I see. It is a subtle difference, and I might be making a mountain out of a mole hill, and I do apologize if I am.
This is 3.0 v8 This time is 9pm with the sun at 120 degrees
This is 3AM Sun at 240 degrees which is as far as I could get the source of light away from the scene
This is 2.6 with the Advanced Renderer
The files are as close to the same as I could get. And I do have to say I am very happy and pleased at the Sunflow ability now to handle transparent textures, and thank you for adding this into SH3D. Almost all my trees have them.
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Re: Sweet Home 3D 3.0
change the toggle magnetism short cut from the Shift key to Ctrl+Shift keys (or alt+Shift under Mac OS X), and use the Shift key for horizontal/vertical move + proportional resizing,
I'm all for that! Sounds good to me. Yes, that's what other programs do and that is what I'm used to. :D
I have yet to test the latest beta. Been kinda busy lately. I am eager to check it out though!
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Good evening,
Google Translation
Matte or glossy option for walls is really interesting. Is it possible to integrate it on the furniture? The interest would be to choose a color or texture of the furniture in SH3D and have a look painted or not.
Another topic. Is it possible to lock the base plane, which prevents accidental mishandling while leaving the possibility of having access to the parameters of a wall or object, without needing to unlock?
Sorry about this translation Google
FR: L'option mat ou brillant pour les murs est vraiment intéressante. Est il possible d'intégrer cette option sur le mobilier? L'intérêt serait de pouvoir choisir une couleur ou une texture du meuble dans SH3D et d'avoir un aspect laqué ou non.
Autre sujet. Est il possible de pouvoir verrouiller le plan de base, qui empêche ainsi une mauvaise manipulation accidentel tout en laissant la possibilité d'avoir accès aux paramètres d'un mur ou d'un objet, sans avoir besoin de déverrouiller?
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Re: Sweet Home 3D 3.0
Hi Emmanuel,
While testing some ideas, with the new transparency, I've just discovered an interesting bug with 3.0 beta 9.
It should be easy to recreate.
All I did was create a square building, added a floor/ceiling.
Next added a simple rectangle obj with (a 50% Alpha blend) your cloudy sky texture.
Turned off the ceiling light and added 1 light source behind the rectangle at the default 50% brightness.
First render, everything looks great!
Thought I'd take a look at the image on the wall/floor, so moved the point of view to the right.
It's then I discovered the bug.
As soon as the light source goes out of the frame, the centre of the image receives no photons to render.
It get progressively worse the further the light source goes out of the frame.
Tried it several times with different angles.
Then moved the view back to the centre and tried looking down. Here the centre fails to receive photons while the light is still in the edge of the frame.
Once the light goes out of the frame, (as before) it gets worse the further the light is out of the render frame.
It happens with both highest render settings and with yours or my lights.
By the way, thank you for adding the "Keep proportions" tick box! Did you decide not to lock proportions, while editing light bulbs?
I've not had chance to try the tweaked glass colours yet.
db4tech
Edit: To attach file.
Update!
After some further tests I'm not so sure that it is the light source going out of the frame causing the problem. It seems more connected with the Alpha mapped objects angle of view to camera.
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Another quick test and a different bug, or could this render problem be connected in someway?
Made a plain white image in GIMP, added an Alpha channel, then used the erasure tool set at different opacity levels, to remove areas from the image.
All levels (apart from full opacity) render with the same level of opacity, not sure if that is how it is meant to be? That's not the bug though! The bottom 2 left discs have 100% opacity yet they are the only discs that render as none translucent?
Here is the reduced size image produced in GIMP used as a test Alpha texture. I've had to add a beige background, so the different levels of opacity can been seen against the white background of the forum.
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Just a quick render. I finally saw the texture option for the furniture and tried it out on the corner desk: I don't know if I can make that texture rotate so that it's not diagnal:
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Pencilart,
It doesn't help (very much) if you rotate the texture. Try the following: take a box and apply a texture. Then rotate the box and watch what happens in the 3D window.
You'll see that the texture is applied correctly on the top and two opposing sides. The other two opposing sides are diagonally striped.
It's the same with every other model that you apply textures to. Sometimes it's understandable (textures can never cover a sphere properly), sometimes it's not so easy to understand (as with the box).
Personally, I'm glad we can apply textures, and I don't complain about imperfections.
Hans
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And maybe what I am seeing is only a difference of tweaks made between the two renderers. I only have time to show a very small sample of what I see as sun shadows unfortunately, but maybe it will give you an idea of what I see. It is a subtle difference, and I might be making a mountain out of a mole hill, and I do apologize if I am.
