Hi Brian,
I hope you're getting better.
I added a short tutorial on the website:

http://www.inagoni.com/content.php?content.18

It's mainly screenshots, but it can help understanding what the Replica Array options are.
Let me know if you need more information.

Julien

I can make a tutorial for the small animation with the cubes if you want. Maybe next week-end if I find enough free time.
Julien

Hello,

Could you send me the file and a few steps to reproduce the problem ar support'at'inagoni.com. I'll check what's happening here.

Julien

The 3D objects on inagoni.com are also free of rights. They can be used in any commercial project. Julien

Hi, I just saw the question about using shaders from Inagoni on commertial products. Feel free to use them as you want, there're no copyright on them. Julien

I think the ^ operator is not reconize by the parser, you should try with a multiplication instead.

Message edited on: 03/12/2006 05:36

Hi, You can find here another build for C5Beta: http://julien.chaplier.free.fr/DownloadLink/C5BetaPluginOld.zip for those that have the error that says the plugins are too recent. Julien

The Full Raytracing is also required when the camera is inside the bounding box of an object, otherwise some triangles are discarded. I had the problem when the camera was inside an ArchiTools building. Julien

Hello Ed,

Volumetric objects in Carrara can't cast shadows (Primivol as well as Carrara's volumetric primitives). It a limitation due to the current implementation of this kind of primitive inside Carrara: volumetric primitives are rendered in there own space, appart from the scene. It's this same limitation that makes the distant lights the only one available for volume lighting. I sent these remarks to Eovia when I was working on Primivol and I hope the SDK will show some improvment for Carrara 5.

Regards,
Julien

This information might help: I know that some of Carrara's shaders have a nice bump implementation (like the Cellular shader), but others use a default implementation that depend a lot on the scale of the shader (like the brick one). When I did Veloute, I made specific developments for the bump, so they usually give better result than the Carrara one's. What you could try if you want to use the Carrara brick shader in the bump channel, it's to use it after the Veloute Filter shader: it should improve the bump. Julien

Usefull links. I added them to Inagoni website.

Thanks for using them. I'm glad to see that these plugins are usefull. And if you want to share some of the images you'll make with, feel free to send them, I'll add them to the Inagoni gallery. Julien

There's in fact 2 rooms separated by a short wall. The wall height is set to .2 inch, the floor on one side to .1 inch and on the other side to .2 inch: this make a .1 inch step. You can also set thte wall thickness to 0 if you don't want to see a border on the floor shading. Julien

Hi Johannes,
The glow of the fog can be set using the Intensity parameter. And you can darken the profected shadow of the cloud on the scene by increasing its density.
Currently the fog can't receive shadows from other objects, as well as it can't receive light from ligth cones and light bulbs. These are 2 limitations I'm aware of, but I couldn't find a way to solve them with Carrara 3 or 4 architecture. I'll complete the volumetric model as soon as a solution is available.
About the evaluation version, if you lower the renderer quality ( setting the Antialiasing to Fast or None, and the Pixel accuracy to 2 or 4 pixels ) you should be able to render more than 4 or 5 times the primitives. Let me know if you think it's still not enough with these settings, I can build another demo that authorized a little bit more renders.
Julien