cindigo 0.8 - beta 1

[Marcofly]

did you import it or modeled in c4d? and do you mean only the crossing line that divides the area in two-grey tones, or also the small white square areas?

you can send me the scene as pm or here (simple, please..), and i can have a look at it, if you want..

[fused]

i modeled all parts in c4d. i mean both, the line and the white squares.

thanks, ill see if i can make a simple scene with the same problem.

[Marcofly]

mmmhh.. it seems like the square panels are not cubes, but some sort of hypernurbed elements.. try to replace one of them with a 2 segments cube, converted to polygon, no normal_smoothing..

send me just one element of them, if it still doesn´t work

[Marcofly]

fused, a couple of questions:
-i have a mat with texture and bump, and an alpha-map for it:

where do i have to load the alpha-map? as blendmap?

-an object with blend-map tag doesn´t need a cinema material.

true?

-the order between blend mat 1 and blend mat 2 is not

important. true?

[fused]

1. true
2. true (but you should make sure that the mapping is correct by applying a material with the alpha-map in the colour channel to the object)
3. if you exchange mat1 and mat2 the blend will be different


it think my problem is fixed, btw

[Behrendt]

Anyone got a idea how to make a nice carpet?

[Kram1032]

can C4D use Softbodies?
If so -> basically subdivide a plane, make holes in it, where you want it to hang, "hang it up" and then, use the softbody tool, to get a carpet look

[Behrendt]

No, that would be a curtain Carpet is lying on the floor
But your method of making a curtain is very good! I did it with Clothilde and it works very well

[Kram1032]

oh, sorry
wrong word

hmm.... carpet = beveled, thin cube with bump-, and texture map.
If you want SSS, or such, which isn't needed, in my oppinion, as there wont be a strong SSSeffect when lying on the floor, you could try to blend an SSSmat with a diffuse transmitter mat.

MAYBE, you also can use alpha maps for it, but I guess, it wont look too good.

[manitwo]

If you want SSS, or such, which isn't needed, in my oppinion, as there wont be a strong SSSeffect when lying on the floor, you could try to blend an SSSmat with a diffuse transmitter mat.

lol - kram, you know why im laughing

[Behrendt]

oh, sorry
wrong word

hmm.... carpet = beveled, thin cube with bump-, and texture map.
If you want SSS, or such, which isn't needed, in my oppinion, as there wont be a strong SSSeffect when lying on the floor, you could try to blend an SSSmat with a diffuse transmitter mat.

MAYBE, you also can use alpha maps for it, but I guess, it wont look too good.

Hehe, no problem. I'm thankful for everybody who wants to help me
Yeah, bump seems to be best method, will take a lot of experiments.
Alpha maps would work like the grass-tutorial, woulndt it?

[Kram1032]

I actually said, it's not really necessary

[Behrendt]

@fused
I think I got a bug. If you create a blend material without a blend map Indigo crashes. You got to edit the igs on your own to proceed without a map. Could you fix this in your exporter so that it only creates the tag for an map if a blend-map is defined in Cinema? Would be nice for usability

[fused]

well.... it shouldnt crash...

ill have a look at it.

[kadajawi]

Ok, finally I got around to actually using Cindigo Works great, after having learned how to set up everything etc.

2 things I noticed:
1. I need to have everything on the highest level, grouping objects doesn't seem to work (haven't fully tested that though).
2. It seems as if you either can render with Phong shading or without, but I'm making quite some use of "Phong shading unterbrechen"... that doesn't seem to be taken into account. Probably a hard thing to do, and I can think of a work around, but maybe you want to implement that somewhere in the future. Would be great.

Oh, and maybe some descriptive "Überschriften", especially in the material tag. It's a bit confusing.

Edit: And another thing... is there a way to manually focus? Autofocus often doesn't focus correctly for me because I like stuff off-centered, focus something at the side etc.