a great tool, Adam!

especially to compare the different sun-situations at different days of the year... so you can perfectly check, if your windows are shaded in summer but catch full sunlight in winter.

I am looking forward to this tool being implemented.

ps: how did you do the reflection in the water? obviously you didn't simply take the environment map as reflection reference - for the buildings show up in the reflective surface as well...

good morning REGIS,

the initial idea was discussed in this thread.

for the who is who test - could you give us some multiple choice answers?

@remus said:

i remeber seeing an instancing test on the indigo forums which had 200 billion faces, i was impressed by the number alone.

200.000.000.000 faces! if every 0 were a cheeseburger I would be quite full now (cheeseburgers as random sample to show how many zeros there are)

by the way. if you say: my model has XXX polygons - do you normally mean edges or faces? I think it is edges (because you can have one face, defined by a polygonal line...)

looks sweet. obviously indigo has no problems with several light sources.

how long did it take?

hi Didier,

I just wanted to clean up a terrain. I used the options

-create group: yes
-delete original: yes
-merge faces: no
-size 600mm

when it was finished it looked like this

the original terrain had not been deleted. but the new terrain was incomplete where the old mesh was visible (see image above). no idea, why it didnt work. just thought I would tell, in case you have a clue.

did probably take you quite a while to solve them all (I think I never succeeded in getting one of them ordered...)

instancing in indigo is soooo great fun!!!

I will soon buy a new laptop. then I will join in with some tests

yes let us know, how good it is - but nothing more than that!!!

what I heared/read was, that he did use sleeping pills for quite a while. but playing the part of the joker freaked him out a bit and therefore may have been the cause that he misjudged the ammount of pills he should take.
another rumour I heard, is that his sleeping pills reacted with his asthma medication and therefore caused his death.

but all I know for certain is, that Heath Ledger is one of my favourite actors and I am looking forward to see him in this role of the joker.

I am afraid, I was thinking in German...

what I mean is the spirit, the flair, the effect of the room

well, thats a proper instancing - nice one pav. thanks a lot for posting.

that is unfortunate, that your computer crashed. that leads me to a question I wanted to ask for a long time:

how precisely does the resume function work and which files do you need to export out of SU to be able to do that?
I never succeeded in resuming a render (always got an error message).
would be such a cool thing. if your computer is unoccupied... just give him some old images to render them a bit further

I have to wait for the 25th of July (UK-release)

bought my ticket yesterday. the most expensive cinema ticket (for a single film) in my life. but it is the biggest cinema I have ever seen (in Leicester Square, London).
...and, hey, it is The Dark Knight!, an event I have been waiting for for some years now!

may sound cruel, but the fact that it is Heath Ledgers last film (and perhaps the role that made him so upset and affected him so intendly, that he took more sleeping pills than his body could bear) makes it even more important to me.

oh my god, I am soooo excited!

(however, I don't know why Christian Bale forgot to send my invitation for the big premier on 21th of July... He knows how much I am looking forward to that movie...)

tancredi, if I understood your post correctly, you moved your camera, created an image export, then moved your camera again, creating another image export...

if you want a simple movement, use scenes (windows > scenes) to set up some views.
then you have to adjust the transition speed of the scenes (under View > Animation > Settings).

and finally export the animation under File > Export > Animation (under options you can choose to export it as an image sequence...)

if you already knew all this, I am sorry - shame upon me - but I mean to understand that you are looking for something simple.

as far as I understand all these suggestions assume that you definitely want to insert an additional face between the two pieces of terrain.

but if you simply want to merge them together, to make them one big terrain, without the transition being visible at all (and therefore an interpolation of the two contour-lines), you need something different

we should even consider to have an option where we can specify the amount of surrounding geometry that is allowed to be bent (a bit like when you stamp something in a terrain with the sanbox tools, but with smoother deformations, similar to the ffd-script), to perfectly allign the tangents of the two faces.

did that make sense to you?

it works for me too! thanks Tommy.

but I can't really see, what is the most important factor that influences SU's performance...

you beat me to it, remus.

the only thing you have to do is to make this happen is to give the detailed component a name (for example "Component1") and then create a very simple component of about the same size and call it "Component1**_dummy**".

that's it. indigo will replace the "_dummy" with the "" component.

the last one is marvellous. a separating wall in some installation ore exhibition - excellent!

extremely cool spaceships, rsw!

was the base for the first one the skull of a buffalo? looks a bit like it

very good indeed.

as remus said, the quality of the room is definitely visible.

I can't figure out, how the Vertex Weld tool works.

could you give me a short clue as how to use this script? that would be great.

cheers,

Jakob

does a ruby like this already exist?

for terrain modeling a script would come in very handy, that can stitch two contour-lines together.

there are two ways, the workflow could make sense:

• either you select both edges and then right click > stitch edges together (therefore the script has to understand how to distinguish between the two contour-lines by looking which selected vertexes are connected )

• or you choose the function within the tools menu. you select the first edge, confirm, select the second edge and confirm again to start the stitching process.

the first way is faster in terms of the workflow, the second one is more secure and is better for introducing an inputwindow for options.

this stithcing script may have to insert polygons when stitching the two lines together. one option to choose could be the decision whether the vertex-positions are supposed to be interpolated or whether one contour-line is aligned to the other...
[Edit] ...or if both remain in their position and additional faces are inserted to connect the two lines[]

what do you think?

@pav_3j said:

oh just so you know, i have a high res, render (with the extended ground plane) cooking as we speak, going to let it run over night and i'll post it up tomorrow.

cool - now I really have something to look forward to