Kstudio - Architectural Visualization

V-Ray RT, CPU vs GPU comparisons

Alexander — Fri, 21 May 2010 11:58:24 +0000

10th Anniversary of ScriptSpot

Alexander — Wed, 19 May 2010 21:50:50 +0000

Tell “Happy Birthday” and Get Gifts from Christopher Grant.
Prize#1: CG Textures Memberships.

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VRaySpeedLight, The acceleration of rendering under complex illumination.

Alexander — Wed, 19 May 2010 16:10:50 +0000

Andrey Kozlov aka Karba ( creator of VrayScatter, MentalScatter and MadCar ) anounces his brand new plugin.
VRaySpeedLight allow to optimize light calculations in Vray.
Depending on the distance and brightness of the Light source VRaySpeedLight recalculating the number of samples for each light source.
Rendering Accelerate occurs not only at the final stage, but on the stage of GI.
Plugin is under development.

Forum topic(Russian)

MultiScatter is realeased.

Alexander — Wed, 19 May 2010 16:00:37 +0000

MultiScatter is a plug-in for 3ds max which works with V-Ray and Mental Ray.
Creator: Andrey Kozlov (Karba)

Features
Capability of creation huge amount of objects in array (hundreds of thousands and millions)
Quick rendertime generation of objects with optimized RAM management
Random transformations (scale, rotation) of objects in array
Distribution of objects based on bitmaps or procedural maps
Scaling of objects based on bitmaps or procedural maps
Realtime viewport preview of objects placement
Different types of viewport preview of objects
Special procedural map the MultiScatterTexture
64-bit support
Differences from VRayScatter:
1. Mental Ray support (geometry and Mental Proxy)
2. Not only VrayProxy but any kind of geometry supported
3. Many objects in one Scatter
4. Probability texture for objects “clustering”
5. Multithreading support in all operations including viewports
6. Picking objects directly from a scene
7. Materials, property and animation interactively depended to scene objects.
8. “Help pictures” for new users (possible to switch off).
9. Revolutionary viewport preview mode – points.
10. Diffuse colour or wirecolor preview in viewport.
11. Collision preview in viewport.
12. Converting MultiScatter object to single mesh or instant copied objects.
13. MultiScatter utility.

NPR renderer Pencil+

Alexander — Mon, 17 May 2010 19:15:22 +0000

NPR renderer Pencil+ from P SOFTHOUSE Co., LTD.

2010 CGarchitect.com Architectural 3D Awards

Alexander — Mon, 17 May 2010 12:48:34 +0000

CGarchitect.com is hosting the 7th annual Architectural 3D Awards to be awarded at this year’s Mundos Digitales Conference in La Coruna, Spain.
The Awards Competition is open to everyone in the Architectural Visualization industry to highlight the best imagery and animations done in 2009/2010.

http://www.cgarchitect.com/3dawards

SIGGRAPH 2010 : Computer Animation Festival Trailer

Alexander — Mon, 17 May 2010 12:37:20 +0000

Scripts pack updated

Alexander — Sun, 16 May 2010 11:35:22 +0000

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FilePathFinder PRO v.3.2.33

Adds support for Max 9SP1

Sweep Profile v0.67

Adds support for Max 9SP1

Adds ability for Scale section

Convert to Base Object

Adds ability for convert multiply selections with saving Instance link (see small video)

Add to Pack the new script:

Render Preview (beta-version 0.74)

Utility for making preview thumbnails for 3ds Max scenes, Material Libraries and IES files

It also included to FilePathFinder PRO

MadCar 3.0 Tyres trails Test 8

Alexander — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:50:27 +0000

Generate mapping coords by default and assign materials automatically

Alexander — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:57:47 +0000

Is there a way in which the “Generate Mapping Coordinates” would be switch on automatically when you create objects, splines, modifications, Extrude, Sweep and etc.?

For example on VrayMtl:

global dmat
fn defaultmat=(
(
mybitmap=“Path to your bitmap file”
mytexmap=BitmapTexture filename:mybitmap filtering:1
dmat=VRayMtl Name:”White” Diffuse:(color 210 210 210) reflection_subdivs:16 reflection_fresnel:on texmap_bump:mytexmap effectsChannel:8
showTextureMap dmat mytexmap true
)
)
calbScr=”if objects.count!=0 then (newNode=objects[objects.count]\n”
calbScr+=”dmat=sceneMaterials[\"White\"]\n”
calbScr+=”if (newNode.material==undefined) do (\n”
calbScr+=”if dmat==undefined or (classof dmat != VRayMtl) do (defaultmat())\n”
calbScr+=”newNode.material=dmat\n))\n”

callbacks.addScript #filePostOpen “dmat=sceneMaterials[\"White\"];if dmat==undefined do defaultmat()” id:#VGCreate
callbacks.addScript #sceneNodeAdded calbScr id:#VGCreate

Place text in Notepad with extension “ms” and save to directory scripts\startup