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New plugin : Cutouts and Blimps

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  • VIArtsVIArts Posts: 1,499

    Gee whiz, Wendy, you'd make a good foo0tball player -- still tackling 'em fractals. lol

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,205
    edited August 2018

    Oh boy 3.45am yesterday and its 8pm and it finally finished and looks like this

    Meh

    on your left is the reverse that took under a minute

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,205

    so I made this in the Vertex room from spheres

    needs more

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  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,987

     

     page https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=921806691336614&set=pcb.1847326895322658&type=3&theater&ifg=1

     

    courtesy 

    ‎Mandica Knežević‎ to The Golden Age Of Illustration

    artist: Ernst Haeckel, biologist, 1900.

    th3Digit said:

    Oh boy 3.45am yesterday and its 8pm and it finally finished and looks like this

    Meh

    on your left is the reverse that took under a minute

    that's lovely Wendy it has a certain.....   je ne sais quoi

     

  • mindsongmindsong Posts: 1,701
    th3Digit said:

    Oh boy 3.45am yesterday and its 8pm and it finally finished and looks like this

    Meh

    on your left is the reverse that took under a minute

    probably a lot like what a bitcoin looks like in memory - for all the CPU effort...

    oh well. maybe you can get something more interesting w some smoothing?

    i do like the direction/exporation, though. fascinating stuff.

    --ms

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,987

    so what did you learn Wendy?

  • StezzaStezza Posts: 8,054

    I’ll be using this plugin for the recent pioneer challenge...

     

    this is is so handy, every Carrara user should give it a go.

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,987

    Yes it's much better than modelling from scratch :)

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,205
    head wax said:

    so what did you learn Wendy?

    it is good  for some stuff not so good for others

  • Bunyip02Bunyip02 Posts: 8,602

    Have an idea for the new challenge, will be using this great free plugin for it !!!!

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Philemo_Carrara said:

    I decided to release a new plugin finalized some month ago, but for which I haven't had the time to make a proper presentation. I don't have more time now, but decided to release it anyway.

    It's called cutouts and blimps. You can see a small demo here:

    A cutout is a plane on which an image is mapped and the transparent parts removed. Why would you say ? Just because because the renderer doesn't like transparency. So trading polygons for transparency is usually a good bargain. For instance, a tree where leaves have no transparency renders 10 times faster than a tree where leaves are a rectangle with transparency.

    A blimp is an inflated cutout, similar to the "organic" operator in the vertex room. It's useful when you want to use cutouts to populate background (a common practice) and you want a better response to light. You can see the difference in this post I made in back in February.

    You can also use it as a starting point for modeling from a drawing, given that UV mapping will be Box front and back. You can also use it for titling with round, cartoon like fonts.

    You can download the plugin from the usual link : https://sourceforge.net/projects/carrara-time-savers/files/

    For now, there only the Windows version. I'll try to compile theOSX version tomorrow.

     

     

    thank yoo for the tutorial!! i was geelin vague on the blimp part.

     

    puffs out a cutout, so elegant a solution

    iirc there was a tutorial on how to add birds and oranges to tree branches, think the same method would work for cutout leafs

    no more leaf transparency, faster renders smiley

  • StezzaStezza Posts: 8,054
    edited November 2018

    I used the cutout to model my gumleaves the other day yes  laugh wink

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  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,987
    Stezza_Carrara9 said:

    I used the cutout to model my gumleaves the other day yes  laugh wink

    cute Stezza, lovely use of the plugin - great gun muts too, you amd may gibbs are twins :)

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    anybody tried it on transmapped hairs? 

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,205
    Mystarra said:

    anybody tried it on transmapped hairs? 

     

    haha cool idea

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,564

    Wow!

    Just... WOW!

    As well as: 

    Thank You Thank You Thank You!!!

    So cool to see such cool things being added to my favorite software on the planet! Although I haven't been getting internet time, and my Carrara computer is dying, I've still been managing to get some Carrara and Howler time in. I still hold to the value that both Carrara and Howler were meant to work together, but that might just very well be how I work. Everybody's got their own thing, right?

    Oh man... this is So Cool!

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,564

    Argh, bummer... I gotta go :(

    Say, when I downloaded this and Phong Tessellator, I also saw (and downloaded) a thing called PBR Lighting!

    I ran out of time before I could find a thread in here about it. Is there a thread/post someone could give me a link to? Please?

    Wow. I love you all! Miss you all! Having a lot of fun with Carrara, working toward making some more fun videos, just never get any internet time right now.

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,168

    @Dartanbeck - Hello, my friend.  So glad you stopped in.  Happy to hear you doing well.

    - there are quite a few significant plugins and similar aids.  Check them out when you get a chance.

  • Philemo_CarraraPhilemo_Carrara Posts: 1,175
    Dartanbeck said:

    Argh, bummer... I gotta go :(

    Say, when I downloaded this and Phong Tessellator, I also saw (and downloaded) a thing called PBR Lighting!

    I ran out of time before I could find a thread in here about it. Is there a thread/post someone could give me a link to? Please?

    Wow. I love you all! Miss you all! Having a lot of fun with Carrara, working toward making some more fun videos, just never get any internet time right now.

    @dartanbeck

    Thank you Dart for your fine words. Sorry to hear about your problems with internet and hardware.

    You can find the PBR Lighting thread here.

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,564

    Thanks!!! :)

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,987

    opens up all sorts of possibilities this does Dart :)

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,564
    Headwax_Carrara said:

    opens up all sorts of possibilities this does Dart :)

    Amazing and just plain Awesome! So cool that he's so inspired to make such wonderful things for us!

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,564
    edited January 2019

    Strange dbl post! LOL

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  • StezzaStezza Posts: 8,054
    Dartanbeck said:
    Headwax_Carrara said:

    opens up all sorts of possibilities this does Dart :)

    Amazing and just plain Awesome! So cool that he's so inspired to make such wonderful things for us!

    And so useful ... I seem to be using it quite often on all different kinds of stuff.

    recomend new users of Carrara to download it. 

  • Bunyip02Bunyip02 Posts: 8,602
    Stezza_Carrara9 said:
    Dartanbeck said:
    Headwax_Carrara said:

    opens up all sorts of possibilities this does Dart :)

    Amazing and just plain Awesome! So cool that he's so inspired to make such wonderful things for us!

    And so useful ... I seem to be using it quite often on all different kinds of stuff.

    recomend new users of Carrara to download it. 

    Definately a must have, use it for some very wacky critters.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    cutouts dont have to be flat planes, right?

  • Philemo_CarraraPhilemo_Carrara Posts: 1,175
    They are created this way but, if you convert it to Vertex modeler, you can deform it the way you want. Otherwise, you can generate a blimp with only one half.
  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    was thinking to cut fishnet stockings angel

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,205

    HAHA we need a new plugin Alpha to boolean cutter outerer!

  • Philemo_CarraraPhilemo_Carrara Posts: 1,175

    I agree, we need a new plugin, combining Cutout and HDMorph.  Not this time I'm afraid.

    Wendy_Carrara said:

    HAHA we need a new plugin Alpha to boolean cutter outerer!

     

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