[Preview] Wrap-R Video #3

Rich O Brien

It's been a bit of a holiday period here with Paddy's Day, then School Mid-Term, Easter Rising Celebrations and Easter all running into one another.

But expect some big news soon...

Frederik

Although it didn't cure my impatience - rather the contrary - THANKS for the update, Rich...
I'm sure I won't get much sleep until "soon" will arrive...

cmeed

As we wait for this amazing extension with bated breath, can I ask a question.
What opportunities does it open for those waiting? What workflows are now available

I'm interested to know what people will use this for. For me I hope to get sketchup and unreal working together (fully as only simple rectangular geometry works at the moment)

Texture unwrapping will be a new discipline for me I know very little about how it fits in to workflows - mine is - sketchup to thea then presentation.

I'm very interested in unreal4 maybe just for fun but a goal would be to present moving visuals.

Bob James

I hope to use it to unwrap models to use in Substance Painter.

Frederik

@bob james said:

I hope to use it to unwrap models to use in Substance Painter.

+1

Rich O Brien

I intend to use it for Minecraft.

cmeed

So Substance painter then .... Thea or render package?

Basic question - as I use 'thea for sketchup' will wrap-r after its unwrapped a model then it's sent back to sketchup for 'thea for sketchup' to render - will sketchup hold this wrapped/unwrapped information?

So this unwrapping is one step further to texturing a model or asset that fredo paint for example, can do?

rv1974

Rich, I'm curious how your tool would treat the attached most primitive ramp. The goal is to place dark strips parallel to expanding side borders seamlessly. Could you post the video?
Another example:
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=44552%26amp;start=150
post #5 from below. Could Pap-R apply an un-distorted texture on every turn of the attached cornice?

Untitled.rar

Frederik

@cmeed said:

So Substance painter then .... Thea or render package?

Any render application will benefit from it...

@cmeed said:

Basic question - as I use 'thea for sketchup' will wrap-r after its unwrapped a model then it's sent back to sketchup for 'thea for sketchup' to render - will sketchup hold this wrapped/unwrapped information?

Of course...
It's a question about the UV- and UVW-mapping...

Rich O Brien

@rv1974 said:

The goal is to place dark strips parallel to expanding side borders seamlessly. Could you post the video?

Is this what you are looking to do?

olishea

this is unbelievable for SU

Rich O Brien

@oli

it could be a hoax though....

tuna1957

Fantastic........ no mac version , I'll go sit in the corner and pout now.......

olishea

@rich o brien said:

@oli

it could be a hoax though....

It's not April 1st though mate!

@tuna1957 said:

Fantastic........ no mac version , I'll go sit in the corner and pout now.......

I used to think that all the time so I just bought a PC instead. Much easier!

rv1974

@rich o brien said:

Is this what you are looking to do?

Thank you! Yes, the result you delivered is what I expected to get.
A couple of notes:

There's strong ripple distortion of the checker texture. It will seen if finer textures (like decking or tiles) will be applied. Ho to fight this issue?
2.We saw lots of tedious manual labor. Do you have any plans to automate somehow the aligning part?
There's by no means any bit of criticism- I only try to clarify the things.

JQL

I see a lot more manual work on my current process right now

Rich O Brien

@rv1974 said:

There's strong ripple distortion of the checker texture. It will seen if finer textures (like decking or tiles) will be applied. Ho to fight this issue?

Ripples are because the texture in the viewport is not a bitmap. here's the result for you to look at...

road-wrapr-rv.skp

@rv1974 said:

2.We saw lots of tedious manual labor. Do you have any plans to automate somehow the aligning part?
There's by no means any bit of criticism- I only try to clarify the things.

Of course. First we need to nail down to workflow then add the features.

rv1974

@rich o brien said:

Ripples are because the texture in the viewport is not a bitmap. here's the result for you to look at...

I'd disagree. I replaced the asphalt texture with decking and this here's result. It's important in Archviz and it should be addressed.

Rich O Brien

That's interesting.

I'll look at this.

One thing worth noting is we're only process Tri meshes. Distortions like this are artefacts of such meshes.

But not the outcome we want. Thanks for the heads up.

Bob James

@cmeed said:

So this unwrapping is one step further to texturing a model or asset that fredo paint for example, can do?

Fredo's extension is a great tool, but the Substance programs (Designer, Painter and BTM) along with SubstanceTheaConverter gives you much more power to add things like worn edges and other "realistic defects".

However, to do that you need an unwrapped version of your model. That's why Wrap-R is so critically important.