KT2008 Garden...

[solo]

I hope you do not mind all the questions, i would ask them in the KT forum but I figured here would be better as many other folk may want to know more.

In the images on first page I see a physical sky, is that a dome or does KT have atmospheres? (domes would slow the render times down considerably)

Is displacement mapping available?

If you can add components within the KT gui by way of instancing can one also position that mesh accurately, eg. Ivy is normally impossible in SU, but if one can import into KT can you position it onto the face that it was generated to fit?

Can you blend materials with the editor?

Is SSS qavailable?

Mapping textures in KT, does it wrap textures on all axis? or is it the same as SU?

[Frederik]

@solo said:

I hope you do not mind all the questions, i would ask them in the KT forum but I figured here would be better as many other folk may want to know more.

I don't mind at all...

@solo said:

In the images on first page I see a physical sky, is that a dome or does KT have atmospheres? (domes would slow the render times down considerably)

It's a spherical sky image, and render times are actually better than using a physic sky...
I've attached a very quick test, where I placed a sphere and made the material as a mirror... Note the render time... 11 sec on a slow single core laptop...

I suggest you download the Getting Started tutorial... Although only the KT2007 tutorial is currently available, the principles still remain...
Check pages 20 and 21...

In addition KT has physic sky, which you already know from Podium...

@solo said:

Is displacement mapping available?

Unfortunately not in the release getting out on Wednesday, but it's on the list...
It might be worth mentioning that we aim to have more updates than one per year... So in theory we could get displacement in a couple of month...

@solo said:

If you can add components within the KT gui by way of instancing can one also position that mesh accurately, eg. Ivy is normally impossible in SU, but if one can import into KT can you position it onto the face that it was generated to fit?

Actually you don't add the components by instancing...
You import the components and then you can use the instancing brush to populate your component (or parts of it) as many times as you want to... The instances can be identical to to origin or it can be rotated and/or scaled...

It's really difficult to explain here, without going too much in details...
Once you see one of the video tutorials, I'm sure you get the picture...

@solo said:

Can you blend materials with the editor?

Ooohhh yes...
Check out the A glimpse of things coming... thread...
But again, it will be really difficult to explain here, without going too much in details...

@solo said:

Is SSS qavailable?

It's already available in KT2007...
I suggest you make a search in the KT Forum... Here's one example... Some SSS materials

@solo said:

Mapping textures in KT, does it wrap textures on all axis? or is it the same as SU?

KT wrap on all axis, but you can make it work like in SU...
That's all about UV mapping...

Hope this clarified some of your questions...

[Gareth]

Great work....!!!

I have used SU for a couple of years but I am a new KT user....the questions and information in this thread have been brilliant.

Cheers,

Gareth

(greetings from Australia)