StompinTom's Simple Studio Setup

[StompinTom]

hey all
here's a veeery simple studio setup that's pretty useful for just about anything. very generic, but it does the job when all you want to do is show off your model. so just place your model at the origin, above the floor/background and hit render. the background can of course be textured/changed in color to your liking.

.igs file for you text fiends
http://www.tomsvilans.com/temp/studioSetup.igs

.blend file (with included Suzanne so you can see right off the bat what it looks like)
http://www.tomsvilans.com/temp/studioSetup.blend

and a 3-4 minute rendering of said .blend file.


so you get the idea. 2 softboxes set up on either side of the camera, big enough to make a reflective object look reflective which i find is the biggest problem in most early/noob renders (if theres nothing to reflect, it wont look reflective).

have fun!

EDIT: shit. i seem to have deleted the .igs file from the server.
EDIT 2: fixed.

[DaveC]

Thanks, Tom! Very helpful.

[Cire]

Quick question: is there any particular reason that the studio 'backdrop' has thickness, instead of being just a curved plane?

[drBouvierLeduc]

neat !

[StompinTom]

yeah, maybe its just me, but sometimes i find that a single surface object (ie. a plane) appears black w/ bidirectional or something. i figured it was just safer to have an object with volume so i can be sure the normals are pointing the right way regardless.
most likely its completely unnecessary.

[filippo]

Thanks

[filippo]

Thanks

[kadajawi]

Can you post pictures of the setup and give informations so that those not using Blender can somehow rebuild your scene? Or maybe give a short explaination how to use the igs file?
Thanks

[jansan]

Charger blend ....render (Blendigo) and........
File "<string>" , line 1689 , in exportIndigoScene
Zero division error: float division

[StompinTom]

sure, no prob. its very simple, ill whip up a diagram or something in photoshop.

[Phr0stByte]

StompinTom
Simply awesome idea - would really help out newbs like me. Unfortunately, I load your scene, import my object (after deleting Suzanne), bring up Blendigo, and export. Blendigo promptly crashes and says to see the error in the console (witch a newb like me doesnt know how to do).

Can you shed any light on this? (<====That was cute, wasn't it?)

[CTZn]

Can you shed any light on this? (<====That was cute, wasn't it?)

That was done, already

Hem, if you want debug info we need debug info. Please post the last lines (or the whole) log.txt.

[Phr0stByte]

CTZn
StompinTom
This seems to be the critical stuff at the end:

Skip "Camera" (type "Camera")
exporting mesh "Suzanne"
exporting mesh "softBox"
exporting mesh "background"
scene.getCurrentCamera() deprecated!
use scene.objects.camera instead
processing Camera...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 2544, in buttonEvt
File "<string>", line 1949, in exportStill
File "<string>", line 1939, in export
File "<string>", line 1765, in exportIndigoScene
ZeroDivisionError: float division

[Kram1032]

It divides through 0....

I'm not sure, but isn't that caused, when nothing is selected?

[Phr0stByte]

Kram1032
CTZn
I solved the issue by simply starting a new scene in Blender and importing everything from Stompin's scene except for the camera.