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Re: Modo Plugin Roadmap

Postby riggles » Tue Apr 08, 2014 12:33 pm

riggles Tue Apr 08, 2014 12:33 pm
face_off wrote:
It has to be baked down?
Octane 2.0's hair implementation is a vertex strand renderer. So any lines, arcs, curves, etc can be rendered. Modo's fur shaders needs to be baked to vertex strands (Cylinders) in order to be rendered.

EDIT: More than happy to enhance the plugin to accept hair strand data from the Modo Fur Shader if the Modo API is enhanced to provide this data.

Paul

I keep forgetting, since I'm not a plugin developer, that an application's feature is only as accessible as their API allows it to be. I'll put in a feature request to MODO.
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Re: Modo Plugin Roadmap

Postby face_off » Wed Apr 09, 2014 4:32 am

face_off Wed Apr 09, 2014 4:32 am
Displacement mapping sample below. It needs a 16 bit displacement map (as used in this sample) to get a nice smooth effect.
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Re: Modo Plugin Roadmap

Postby face_off » Wed Apr 09, 2014 5:22 am

face_off Wed Apr 09, 2014 5:22 am
Random Color Texture done - pls see below.

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Re: Modo Plugin Roadmap

Postby portnicki » Wed Apr 09, 2014 7:56 am

portnicki Wed Apr 09, 2014 7:56 am
face_off wrote:Displacement mapping sample below. It needs a 16 bit displacement map (as used in this sample) to get a nice smooth effect.


whoa, the displacement looks sweet!
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Re: Modo Plugin Roadmap

Postby face_off » Thu May 08, 2014 7:13 am

face_off Thu May 08, 2014 7:13 am
Hi

A quick update.....

The Octane 2.0 version of the plugin is virtually complete - with only a couple of issues to resolve.

The Octane 1.5 version of the plugin appears at this stage to be quite robust (awaiting Modo801 SP1 to resolve the "Scene Close" crash).

Unless people think strongly otherwise, I believe the 1.5 version of the plugin is ready to come out of beta (date to be determined). If you think there are functions missing or bugs that have not been addressed, pls let me know. As per the msg at the top of this thread, there are still a lot of features to add to the plugin - but this can be done on the full (non-beta) version.

And a question for people....for Viewport navigation, you will click a button and then drag the mouse in the Octane Viewport to move the Octane camera (using controls similar to the Modo Preview window navigation controls). Do you want
a) The Modo camera continually tracks the Octane camera in this mode, or
b) The Modo camera does not track the Octane camera in this mode, or
c) The Modo camera does not track the Octane camera in this mode, but when you exit Viewport Navigation the Modo camera is set to the final position of the Octane camera.

I am unsure if Viewport Navigation will be able to be implemented no OS X.

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Re: Modo Plugin Roadmap

Postby MagnusL3D » Thu May 08, 2014 1:25 pm

MagnusL3D Thu May 08, 2014 1:25 pm
I just have to say, amazing work and that it looks so damn sexy ! cant wait to try out 2.0 !
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Re: Modo Plugin Roadmap

Postby funk » Thu May 08, 2014 1:29 pm

funk Thu May 08, 2014 1:29 pm
face_off wrote:And a question for people....for Viewport navigation, you will click a button and then drag the mouse in the Octane Viewport to move the Octane camera (using controls similar to the Modo Preview window navigation controls). Do you want
a) The Modo camera continually tracks the Octane camera in this mode, or
b) The Modo camera does not track the Octane camera in this mode, or
c) The Modo camera does not track the Octane camera in this mode, but when you exit Viewport Navigation the Modo camera is set to the final position of the Octane camera.

Paul


I would like the modo camera to track the octane camera. I don't mind if it uses some kind of delayed approach (eg only update the modo camera when you mouse up)
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Modo Plugin Roadmap

Postby riggles » Thu May 08, 2014 1:49 pm

riggles Thu May 08, 2014 1:49 pm
I, too, would like the MODO camera to track the Octane camera. I don't recall though, what is the hangup with viewport navigation in OSX? The native MODO preview has it.
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Re: Modo Plugin Roadmap

Postby face_off » Thu May 08, 2014 2:04 pm

face_off Thu May 08, 2014 2:04 pm
I, too, would like the MODO camera to track the Octane camera. I don't recall though, what is the hangup with viewport navigation in OSX? The native MODO preview has it.
On OS X, the Viewport Navigation will be happening on a Cocoa window, which is not a child window of Modo, so I am expecting some challenges.

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Modo Plugin Roadmap

Postby riggles » Thu May 08, 2014 5:13 pm

riggles Thu May 08, 2014 5:13 pm
face_off wrote:
I, too, would like the MODO camera to track the Octane camera. I don't recall though, what is the hangup with viewport navigation in OSX? The native MODO preview has it.
On OS X, the Viewport Navigation will be happening on a Cocoa window, which is not a child window of Modo, so I am expecting some challenges.

Paul

Gotcha. Any word from The Foundry on adding the functionality to MODOs API so that Octane Preview could run in a native card/form viewport?
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