Sorry to dig up this old topic. But I just wanted to know if it was planned? Vray does pretty well to include both Edge Softening and Displacement from rhino. Our current "hack" is to extract RenderMeshes and then use those within Enscape, it just doesn't seem very intuitive to do it that way, seeing as Enscape should be able to get the Render Meshes from Rhino directly?
Posts by rheinason
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Hello!
Just wanted to ask if there's any progress here.Still having the problem that I have to explode the VisualArq objects to get correct UVs. That's the workaround for now, but yeah.
Thanks so much!
Yeah I'd like to know as well. This is a major PITA for us.
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Hi Alexander Devaykin I just noticed that when using a rhino material(using the material editor inside of rhino) I can easily adjust the percentage of the normal map and get a correct result, see below:
100%:
5%:
Perhaps this is because Enscape now reads the normal map as a bump map? But the result is pretty good, at least for a texture like this, something more geometric in nature might not work as well?
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Is it not the same like the supported box mapping?
Sure, but it's a one stop shop for all your objects, so all objects get mapped accordingly, and all objects with this material are correctly mapped as soon as they're made. It's more of a convenience thing, I don't really use WCS as I find it annoying in some applications, especially for natural materials where you need a random texture location to get better realism.
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jack c Why do you use WCS mapping and not the Rhino mapping tool? What is the advantage? I'm working with the mapping tool since years and never missed the WCS. I'm curious what the advantages are.
For architecture where Box Mapping can be used for 90% of all objects, WCS is an easy way of controlling the texture size in a single dialogue.
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Can you briefly let me know which CAD solution you're using, then I can help you further with that
Yeah I'm currently using Rhino.
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If you assign a cutout mask to your concrete and elevate it a few cm, you will get much better results! But anyway: Thanks for the request, we will consider this among other things for improved grass.
Could i see an example of that? Im not sure I understand.
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Hi there!
This would an excellent feature for when we need to do Reinforced grass:
This is very difficult to achieve with Enscape at the moment, but should be relatively simple to do with textures? Currently we're manually modeling all of the tiles and cutting up the grass material with these, it gets very cumbersome very fast(also very graphically heavy!) , but it has some potential:
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Guys this need to be fixed! if not fixed then at least some sort of hacky solution needs to become available ASAP, we're having a surge of homeworkers who are all having issues getting references to work correctly, all of the rhino materials work great(they just create a filepath search and it picks up the missing image files) but the enscape materials are all blank, and referencing the images back isn't enough! You'll need to add(and remember) explicit texture transformation, brightness adjustment, if it's inverted or not and so on. Times that 10-50 materials per file times however many files are currently in production and we're having a major problem here.
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Hi there
It would be nice to have a Shadow Pass render channel. This would be especially helpful now since we've gotten the orthographic views and compositing 2D and 3D plans, site plans and so on. At the moment we're creating an additional render with white mode and it works decently, but having it as a separate pass would be excellent.
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This is just a convention thing and in this case can easily be fixed by inverting the green channel of the normalmap
This might be a handy feature to have inside of the material editor?
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+1 for me, this would also make adjusting composition a breeze. Sometimes we want longer focal lengths to compress the frame and sometimes we want a wider angle. Being able to adjust this "on the fly" would be great.
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enable "Use Viewport Aspect Ratio".
I don't think this option is available in Rhino?
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Do you know what kind of texture mapping VisualARQ is using?
As far as I can tell, VisualARQ is using the texture mapping I apply inside of Rhino.
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Hi Demian, Update from the VisualARQ guys. Did you have a look at the issue? Pretty sure it relates to blocks or similar. Could you go into a bit more detail on how I could use the Material Editor to adjust the texture mapping? I'd prefer using the Enscape Material Editor as that allows a bit more control in some areas.
I meant that you could make use of the material editor in Rhino instead, as this may already be helpful with what you're trying to achieve. I've adjusted my last response accordingly.
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Thanks a lot! I'll file a bug report for this behavior accordingly since I was able to reproduce it.
Hi Demian, any update on this?
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Maybe it can be implemented into the bump map somehow depending upon intensity.
Often displacement and bump maps are used in unison, one for lower frequency and one for higher though.
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+1 for both Displacement and rounded edges! I also wanted to shoutout Blenders adaptive subdivision, as far as I can read about it, it works with OpenSubDiv. It works really well and could be an efficiency boost, both for preview and render settings, even if it's more of a final render type function.
+1 from me.
And if true displacement is too hard to make maybe take a look at Steep Parallax Mapping.
Looks pretty close to real displacement and is made for realtime use. See the links below.
http://graphics.cs.brown.edu/games/SteepParallax/In the live example below click and drag the mouse to change occlusion amount. Notice the "displaced" edges.
https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MtXyz7This also looks super nice and usable, maybe there's a universe where both could be added, so that when choosing Ultra on the render settings we'd get real displacement.
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It would be really nice and save a trip to photoshop