wiki addition request: 3D tutorial

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Sjeiti wrote: this would also be very usefull for people creating surface-filters to check their render maps.

Good point!!!

Thought I would put a couple of example renders in here I did using Daz Studio.

These are a couple of tables from a furniture package one of the daz artists created.
The one on the left is one that I completely retextured. Usually for best results in 3D programs fairly large textures work best. However most of my textures are saved at 600 x 600
(FF default) which are automatically adjusted to 512 when I upload them into SL.
Even tho mine are smaller IMHO they dont look too bad. As you can see their are options for texturing each assigned element of the object. As for the render itself Studio has real time render preview, that helps to see what your final render will look like. And you can see the shadow, lighting and
if you look closely you see some reflections on the floor. The metallic ornamentation on the table on the right is brighter than the one I did. That is because I felt that the reflect map
loaded in the initial texture line up made it a bit unnaturally bright. But it does show you can input your own texture enhancement maps in just about all the categories. Such as difuse,
specular, ambient, bump, reflection and refraction. I have been so busy making textures that
I have not entirely kept up with all the new improvements. I just reviewed the new stuff and
realized that I dont have the current update 2.2 yet so am getting ready to dl that next.
This render took me 3.5 mins mostly because of the reflection takes longer. Shadow only takes
a slight increase in render time. a simple scene with a variety of objects without reflection
takes maybe a min on my comp anyway. AMD 3700 single core, 2 GB ram, ATI x1300 graphics card
with 512 MB ram. The image below is another render with different textures and no shadow.

Textures on 3d objects with finalized with a good renderer make the textures look even better
than the way we often see them in 2D.
This is the easiest fastest and cheapest studio rendering program that I have come across outside of POV Ray but then again POV Ray is'nt all that easy.
Any of you guys could get up to speed with this program within a day or two I bet.

Hi Sjeiti,

Yes I wasnt sure how much knowledge of 3d apps you have, no disrespect intended in any of my comments.

I think the most basic structure would be...Create object-UV map-apply texture-adjust lighting-
render.

But as has been mentioned variables abound just in that seemingly simple sequence.
I'l be happy to contribute where I can.

now, wouldnt it be cool, if there was something on the FF web site, where you could just drag and drop your texture from your filter onto a model of your choice and it would texture the model with your texture. i mean, just that simple; you arent building the model and all that. it's just a number of pre-made models where you would import your texture onto that model to get an idea of how it looked. nothing really more. the lightng would all be fixed, the model is fixed and so on. you're just uploading your texture image to the site and it gets applied to the model. something simple would be best, like those sphere's dilla used to display some of his texture use.

Infiniview, those samples look great!!!

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Sjeiti wrote: I've seen several people posting very cool 3D renderings of filters. Since FF is also intende for 3D use and not all of us are that experienced with 3D rendering (as am I to some extent) I would like to see some simple 3D tutorials in the wiki on this subject (preferabaly one with open source software). Nothing fancy, just something basic on simple primitives and shaders.

As this is from 2008, is there already any 3D tutorial as Sjeiti suggested ?

Thanks