julien_chaplier opened this issue on Dec 13, 2004 ยท 13 posts
julien_chaplier posted Mon, 13 December 2004 at 9:23 PM
Attached Link: http://www.inagoni.com
Primivol is a new plugin for Carrara 3 and 4 and contains the following volumetric primitives: Fire, Cloud, Smog, Rising Smoke. Through these primitive, Primivol can also render any 3D shader as a volume, and can alter its shape with a set of modifiers and ramp-off functions. Lighting, self-shadow, density, color and many other parameters are accessible through the UI and can be precisely adjusted and animated. Some renders are displayed in the gallery and forum pages of inagoni website.
mmoir posted Tue, 14 December 2004 at 8:50 AM
Hey Julien, When is there going to be a demo out for it.I didn't see one on your site yet. Mike
Nicholas86 posted Tue, 14 December 2004 at 8:58 AM
Attached Link: http://www.vizualds.com/e107_images//newspost_images/clouds.mov
oooh, just buy it!! Its well worth it mike. See attached.
mmoir posted Tue, 14 December 2004 at 10:50 AM
Hey Brian, Its just a little too much money to buy it without trying it out first. Nice cloud animation by the way. Mike
alkart2003 posted Tue, 14 December 2004 at 4:31 PM
I just bought this and it seems really cool so far I did have one question how do you get them to animate like rising or billowing smoke. I can create the smoke but it doesn't move can you help? Can you post pics of how to set this up for animation? Thanks for the great plugin I hope to see you do something with the particle emitter soon. Thanks!!! Keep up the great work
rendererer posted Tue, 14 December 2004 at 6:44 PM
I agree that the price is too high for me to buy this plug-in without at least trying a demo. But I also happen to think that most of Julien's plugins seem a bit too expensive for me. If I were to get Baker, Deeper, Replica and Primivol, I would spend $130, or about half the price of Carrara itself. For a hobbyist it's just a little steep - but I think a lot of us are hobbyists.
bluetone posted Tue, 14 December 2004 at 9:18 PM
Maybe Julien can have a 'End-of-year' sale where we could buy all his plug-ins for a decreased cost? Say $100US even, or so... Just a thought...
julien_chaplier posted Tue, 14 December 2004 at 9:47 PM
Hi, I will work on a demo version soon. I just need to figure out what should be limited and what shouldn't. To animate the primitives, you can usually just animate the Z coordinate of the 3D shape: it will give the effect of a rising vapor. There should be some tutorial in the next 3DXtract. About the price, you can already buy Deeper, Baker, Primivol and Replica at a discount price. Each time a plugin is bought, you're elligible for a discount on all the other one. To get the greatest discount, buy the cheappest one first. For these 4 for example, it would be 15+29+29+39=112$ when buying Deeper first. I think a discount is more flexible than a bundle: every new plugin will benefit from this discount, and you can just buy the one you want or need.
ShawnDriscoll posted Tue, 14 December 2004 at 10:19 PM
Works for me.
mmoir posted Wed, 15 December 2004 at 7:45 AM
Hey Julien, I wasn't really knocking the price with my previous comment. Your new pricing discount, I have bought Deeper and Replica in the past do I still qualify or is this only for future purchases. Mike
julien_chaplier posted Wed, 15 December 2004 at 8:25 AM
Hi Mike, The discount only works on plugin buy at the same moment. But if you're planning to buy Primivol, you might want to wait for the end of the week: there will be a new cheap plugin (about 10$) that can swap objects (as it was discussed in this forum: http://www.inagoni.com/forum_viewtopic.php?7.25 ). If you need such plugin, buying it will give you a discount on Primivol too. Julien
mmoir posted Wed, 15 December 2004 at 8:38 AM
Thanks for the info Julien, the swap plugin sounds good too.
falconperigot posted Thu, 16 December 2004 at 9:51 AM
Agreed, the swap plugin sounds good. And Primivol looks excellent.