LW9 Demo Video- Surface Editor: CCTV Shader

[William]

LW9 Demo Video- Surface Editor: CCTV Shader
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[Valfaroth]

Now that is super slick. I wonder if there would be a way to export what other cameras see while I render a scene, rather than putting that picture on a surface.....Would be great to use the export as a kind of reflection pass for windows or glasses without having to render raytraced reflections.....hmmmm

(That probly made no sense, hehehe does anyone know what i'm saying?)

[IvanDYoung]

Oh Man this tool is really cool, I got to play with this one at Siggraph very briefly while Deuce was away (sorry Deuce) and there are lots of possibilties with this shader. I can hardly wait to use this shader. I wonder if this tool would be compatible with the Lens Shader tools, if it is there really is not limit.

[tmdag]

Nice shader.. but I would like to see shader nodes rather than new shaders and plugins ;].
I hope that lightwave 9 will not be mainlly same as Lightwave 8 but just boundled plugins from 3rd party developpers.

[Earl]

Nice shader.. but I would like to see shader nodes rather than new shaders and plugins ;].
I hope that lightwave 9 will not be mainlly same as Lightwave 8 but just boundled plugins from 3rd party developpers.

Heh, well if they're all as cool as this one then perhaps it wouldn't be a bad idea!

[pooby]

thanks for the vids Proton..

Past experience with getting over-excited about things like ikboost based on vids has made me look for holes and potentially bad integration of features.

This looks very useful.. But I can't help thinking, if ONLY the output could be used as a live image texturemap in diplacements too.. It would be incredibly powerful.. but it's just a shader.. a very good one though.

[pauland]

[edited]

If you put a camera where the surface is and have a negative scale, you could have a mirror? (Though I guess it'd be upside down :-( ). Guess we need a separate X & Y scale for a mirror!

Paul

[MrWyatt]

[edited]

If you put a camera where the surface is and have a negative scale, you could have a mirror? (Though I guess it'd be upside down :-( ). Guess we need a separate X & Y scale for a mirror!

Paul

Technically you would need a camera behind the mirror surface, meaning you would have to mirror a second cam using the surfaces polys as the mirroring plane. so when your normal camera would be 10 feet from a mirror the mirrorcam would be 10 feet behind the mirror. does that make sense?

[T4D]

thanks for the vids Proton..

Past experience with getting over-excited about things like ikboost based on vids has made me look for holes and potentially bad integration of features.

This looks very useful.. But I can't help thinking, if ONLY the output could be used as a live image texturemap in diplacements too.. It would be incredibly powerful.. but it's just a shader.. a very good one though.

Thinking the same thing pooby, So I'll just Quote for agreement
I know i will update to LW 9, but I'll wait for the release this time around.

[pauland]

Technically you would need a camera behind the mirror surface, meaning you would have to mirror a second cam using the surfaces polys as the mirroring plane. so when your normal camera would be 10 feet from a mirror the mirrorcam would be 10 feet behind the mirror. does that make sense?

Yes, that makes sense. You could automate/fake part of that good enough to make it look realistic. Very often the suggestion of a mirrror image would be good enough to pass muster.

Paul

[hrgiger]

I would think this tool would be very useful for use with Sasquatch. You could place a "shader" camera to show the scene from a certain viewpoint and then project that onto a reflective surface...

[William]

I would think this tool would be very useful for use with Sasquatch. You could place a "shader" camera to show the scene from a certain viewpoint and then project that onto a reflective surface...

Excellent Idea...I'll have to give that a go!

[pooby]

If, as a pixel filter, Sas renders through a shader I'll eat my hat!


....literally

[William]

after I walk my dogs I'm on it...

[William]

Put your hat away

Worth a test but no go...