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Hi everybody,

As I was following Phantom's thread from the first post and I received the chance to test the beta software, I thought that I post a few renders where I used Phantom Scatter beta to create the vegetation. Maybe you could better imagine what you can expect from it.
This project of mine is a little winery in Hungary. Our summer season is always hot, but this year it was very dry too, so I tried to reproduce this mood with my renders with the completly dead and parched grass and with the few living weed. I still want to improve the model, so consider these rendering as work-in-progress ones. Next to the building I have to model a few rows of grape, a few trees are also missing, and the interior is also only in 50% ready.
As always, C&C are welcome!

I think the pictures tell everything, but now a few words about PS.
However it could seem that the usage is complicated, you can be sure that is very easy to use after reading the tutorial.
The result seems to be extremely realistic even if I used only 4 types of grass/weed.
The modeled territory is about 1500 sqm.
There are 3700 instances of green weed, 59658 instances of dead grass (tussock), 115 pcs of poppy, and 644 pcs of wheat.
The memory usage (geometry) in Octane is 41,4 Mb.

During the testing I only encountered the so-called "cosmetic error". For me, everything else worked fine.

Hi you all,
Not an archiviz, but just a quick "fun and games" while experimenting with the Phantom Scatter beta.
I love the beta already after just sniffing it a bit.
I need to figure out more of all the possibilities to give a full comment though, but this is very very promising!
greetz,

Thanks for posting guys.

I'm busy working on the new BETA version where the addressed problems will be fixed.

Upcoming feature: per-triangle mode
I've come up with an idea that will push the possibilities even further. I'm calling it 'Per-triangle mode'. Instead of making scatter objects follow the scatter pattern, this mode will take a triangle and place a scatter instance in the exact center of it. You might wonder, why is this useful? I'll tell you why!

Things like streetlights and cars take up a lot of geometry right? My idea is that you'd place a single flat triangle, which would represent for example a streetlight or a car. Phantom Scatter Compute will then recognise this triangle and put an instance on it!

This way you can easily place indicators in your model where you want 'manually placed' objects to like cars to be placed/rotated. It will keep the model super light and make my software do the hard work.

If this is similar to http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtop ... 23&t=17306
that would rock!

PS. I'll test the plugin asap - currently I have a mess in my work.

Have you thought about generating 3d piles made from scattered object, like piles of stones?

Hey smicha, yes it is like that. Except that mine is going to be more powerful: I'm gonna make a script that takes the triangle and determines if there is a V shape by taking two vertex-to-vertex lines with the same length. Then Compute will be even capable of recognising the rotation, which is very important!

I've thought about it but we're going to have to think of workarounds to get that. A real pile of stones would require one hell of a physics engine, and that is not possible.

Good!

Phantom107 wrote:I've thought about it but we're going to have to think of workarounds to get that. A real pile of stones would require one hell of a physics engine, and that is not possible.

I thought so.

Great piece of software.
Triangle idea sounds awesome too.

Here is a quick test also using grass clumps

Peter

totally, totally great this software - bit of a faff getting the scale of trees right etc, but that's not an issue with Phantom, more to do with xFrog, Evermotion etc

can see this working very well for us standalone diehards, set up your 'forest' material, 'manicured_lawn', 'herbacious_border' etc, etc

did this this 'avey, think I need to splash out on a Titan, as had to reduce the number of textures, which was a bore, but yes, very very promising

tee hee!

Hi all,

here is a test made with Phantom Scatter to simulate a carpet.

The software is promising and it's easy to use,
when it will be out of beta I'm sure it will be a must have.

Nice work Guus!

Very cool results.

BETA 4 is still in development. Will take some time, there are some computational problems in per-triangle mode.

People who are interested in joining the BETA can still e-mail me at [email protected]