Thea - Shadow catcher tutorial

solo

Adam, I installed an app a while ago but cannot seem to find it online, I remember it was free and works well.

Here is a screengrab of the info box.

The link is dead

It also creates thumbnails.

hdr viewer.jpg

EarthMover

Thanks Pete. I couldn't find it either. Did some searching and came across this freebie though - Sage thumbs - http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?t=746 Downloaded, installed and all is working well. My HDRI images are now visible.

Frederik

I don't think the HDRView is the program that will show hdri's as thumbnails...
(btw - you can get the HDRView here)

solo

I have XNview also, so maybe it's that app which is enabling my thumbnails.

pilou

It was not HDRSHOP ? seems the v1 is free

Frederik

XNview doesn't do the trick, but Adam's find works like a charm...

@earthmover said:

Did some searching and came across this freebie though - Sage thumbs - http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?t=746

blair

The latest update cersion of XnView will read HDRI's as thumbnails (you can choose the thumbnail size),open them and you can save them as jpg etc. Now, if I could just figure out how to best use them in THEA I could take a little step forward.

http://www.xnview.com/

derei

@solo said:

Adam, I installed an app a while ago but cannot seem to find it online, I remember it was free and works well.

Here is a screengrab of the info box.

The link is dead

It also creates thumbnails.

The link is here: http://ict.debevec.org/~debevec/FiatLux/hdrview/
But I also use XnView

dtrarch

Solo

xnView is it to view hdr files.

dtr

solo

@unknownuser said:

The link is here: http://ict.debevec.org/~debevec/FiatLux/hdrview/
But I also use XnView

Yup that's the one, faster to open hdri's and show thumbs than both irfanview and xnview.

derei

@solo said:

faster to open hdri's and show thumbs than both irfanview and xnview.

Indeed, XnViev is a little slow, especially with large HDRIs (and most of them are pretty large).

whiterabbit

I do not see a "shadows only" check box in that pallet.

Frederik

@whiterabbit said:

I do not see a "shadows only" check box in that pallet.

This tutorial is dated September 2010 and development on Thea4SU has been tremendous during the past years...

I suggest you take a look at the model I've posted here where you can see how the shadow catcher material works...

solo

Yikes this is an old thread, when I started this my kid was in middle school, now in college, think about that for a moment.

Rich O Brien

I had a 1yr son when you did this.

Now I have 3 sons and grey hairs!