Virtual Room v1.0 has been released!

[pixym]

It is a pity that the "rooms" are not in real world size (250mm). They are "virtual" …

[Sensei]

It is a pity that the "rooms" are not in real world size (250mm). They are "virtual" …

What is pity? If you're making big city with skyscrapers, people rarely use kilometers as unit, because of problems in display in Layout.. I used scale 1:10. 0.25m = 2.5m. Because of example 3d building demanded it.

[pixym]

I mean this :

[Sensei]

I mean this

I understand what you meant. And already answered above. 250 mm = 2.5 m but with scale 1:10. If there would be entire city, Layout sometimes does not display nicely in viewport when there are used kilometers..
People doing exterior archviz often are using 1:10, 1:100 and 1:1000 scales. To prevent issues in viewport.
People doing visualizations of planet often are using 1:1000000, and instead of Earth radius 6370 km object has 6.37 meters..

[pixym]

People doing exterior archviz often are using 1:10, 1:100 and 1:1000 scales. To prevent issues in viewport.

Not Me, I have never experienced this issue…

[Marander]

I understand what you meant. And already answered above. 250 mm = 2.5 m but with scale 1:10. If there would be entire city, Layout sometimes does not display nicely in viewport when there are used kilometers..
People doing exterior archviz often are using 1:10, 1:100 and 1:1000 scales. To prevent issues in viewport.
People doing visualizations of planet often are using 1:1000000, and instead of Earth radius 6370 km object has 6.37 meters..

I disagree, when using a physical base render you should whenever use real world scales. Landscape is different, you reduce scale but in no way in the amount you mentioned.

[rustythe1]

especially with PBR roughness, fixed properties and fixed light properties,

[oliverhotz]

Does original vRoom work with Octane.. ?

you dont need it for octane.. Octane now has OSL, and there's free osl textures to do just that.

[Chris S. (Fez)]

you dont need it for octane.. Octane now has OSL, and there's free osl textures to do just that.

Now for Max 2019 as well, which means there are going to be many, many OSL resources soon. Already over 100 included with Max. I hope this is not a huge task to add to native Lightwave.

[3dworks]

you dont need it for octane.. Octane now has OSL, and there's free osl textures to do just that.

argh, didn't know that. too late - in any case octane seems not to be able to handle it as it has no direct connection to how layout render engine evaluates data. no problem as you might just use the plugin output as render pass when using octane and put everything together in comp.

the scale "problem" is just with the demo model, but i guess the plugin would work perfectly when modelling in real scale. in my experience since using LW 6 i never encountered any problem when rendering buildings or cities modeled in real scale units...

however i would like to know what are the modelling guidelines for using this plugin. do we need to use just separated quads as projection surface? can different polygon sizes be combined when using different surfaces? rarely you will find a building with all the same window sizes. do the polygons with the virtual room surface material have to be disconnected from the rest of the wall?

[3dworks]

you dont need it for octane.. Octane now has OSL, and there's free osl textures to do just that.

found something here http://lesterbanks.com/2017/10/free-...map-interiors/

someone is already testing it here

https://vimeo.com/262144475

and it has an additional middle ground, which is far more realistic and ideal for shopwindows for example! maybe sensei can implement this as well into the LW native version?

[Sensei]

Release v1.1: Fixed two issues that appeared on MacOS X. Thanks Markus for helping finding them.

[Sensei]

and it has an additional middle ground, which is far more realistic and ideal for shopwindows for example!

IMHO what you showed looks like nothing realistic as my solution.
The whole point is in randomization of interior images, randomization of draperies, randomization of whether lights are turned on or off (or partially turned on)...

maybe sensei can implement this as well into the LW native version?

I very like that there are virtual people visible in these rooms.
It's a bit of work, but doable. Similar to how draperies are implemented.
Randomize yet another set of images of people.
And place them first, prior calculation of draperies (so draperies will override them).
Yet another very good idea Markus.

Send me such people sets with alpha by e-mail..

And make some city with Virtual Room..
(in the easiest to make version you can just make boxes, and set Room Size to fraction of box width,height,depth)

[Pavlov]

Hello Sensei, one question. This method is quite good for distance but not for closeups since there is no real item inside the rooms, just mapped walls.
So i wonder if it's potentially possible to add a set of 3d items to be scattered automatically on the floors - i.e. sofas, furnitures, tables and so on.
In this case this tool would cover nearly 100% of the needs for interiors seen from outside.
If not, for close shots we have to put real apartments with furniture behind windows.

Thanks
Paolo