Thea Render Revision 470

[giannis]

Thanks a lot for the improvements on the viewport !! Now I can see my full model even from far away !!!

Ah, that was actually an older fix.

Duncan sent some bug reports on the camera updates, these were probably on the last moment changes to support... translation.
We will also add IES multiplier for both point/area lights. The good thing for us, is that we have made important changes on engine
level and I am happy we did them before release.

best wishes

[nigec]

the camera updates are working well, I also like the headlight feature, which is a nice when importing 3ds etc.. would it be possible in IR too?
does the default camera start set at pinhole now?.. I haven't checked

[riccky]

Too tired lat night, yes camera update in IR.
@nigec : what is the headlight feature ?

[nigec]

if you import a model with no sun, sky or lights, usually a 3ds or obj, if you go to the dark room and try and render you now get the option to add a light source, before TR1/2 would fail to render or just black

[giannis]

It also saves me when trying test scenes where all lights are off and before panicking that something is wrong...

[Zacchia]

Thanks a lot for the improvements on the viewport !! Now I can see my full model even from far away !!!

What means this? I see no difference in viewport.

When i use IR it seams that the image looks now closer to the darkroom image, i mean it has the same brightness, bevor it was brighter in IR i think.

[nigec]

Yeah I've done that giannis, maybe I've moved the HDRI or an old scene and the path's changed, then wonder why nothing happens lol

[Panga]

Thanks a lot for the improvements on the viewport !! Now I can see my full model even from far away !!!

What means this? I see no difference in viewport.

When i use IR it seams that the image looks now closer to the darkroom image, i mean it has the same brightness, bevor it was brighter in IR i think.

Zacchia, I'm refering to an old behaviour of the viewport where the model was disappearing when you were farther than 1 km. It was a big problem for me as I'm working on very large aeras.

[Zacchia]

ah, OK, thanks for answer.

[ThomasHelzle]

Thanks for the update!

The problem with anisotropy seems indeed gone in all tests I did today - Hooray!

One image came up extremely much more bright than before using IBL only.
I had to set ISO to about 30 instead of 100 to get it to a similar brightness as before.
Is that to be expected from the calibration you did?
Before I sometimes needed to turn up HDRIs to an Intensity of 3 to get the lighting I would have expected at 1, so I guess all is good now


Ghost in the machine?:
It seems that sometimes HDRIs in the IBL slot snap to a Wrapping called "Center" that isn't in the list but exists sometimes when I start a new scene. Does that ring any bells?
Is it possible that there is some forgotten "ghost wrapping" left in Thea?

(I'm actually very comfortable with having a friendly ghost in the machine ).

I'll make a screenshot when I encounter it the next time.

Cheers and many, many thanks for all the hard work!

Thomas