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Real Time Renderer: Tips and Tricks About Truespace Archives These pages are a copy of the official truespace forums prior to their removal somewhere around 2011. They are retained here for archive purposes only. Real Time Renderer: Tips and Tricks // Tech Forum 1  |   Order by default Post by frootee // Jan 13, 2009, 9:23am frootee Total Posts: 2667 I figure this may be a good place for Real Time Pros to share tips and tricks with the real time renderer. I admit I'm no 'expert' (apprentice's apprentice is more apt a title for me :D ) so I can definitely learn a lot too! Ok folks; let's share and learn! :jumpy: Post by ivampretti // Jan 13, 2009, 10:28am ivampretti Total Posts: 151 Rendering an AVI file With RealTime Render Well I think this may be really usefull for the new users. Why realtime render a lot of photos? what to do with this enormous number of frames? Realtime is faster then offline renders because it just render in the RAM memory(really fast), the HD is really much slow to write on it! So one reason to write this separated photo files is because would take too much time to process and make an avi file, then it could not be called as a realtime render :D TomG explains better then me :rolleyes: But one question that I can answer is the second one. A member of the community (DesignDevil) built an excelent free Sequency to AVI converter, the BIVI (attached). Its in german but it works really good! And here a small tutorial: - Choose the folder with your images (left side, yellow folder icon) - Press the ADD icon button (with the 3 little images -> ADD ALL) - Now enter the video frame per second rate (Frames Pro Sekunde) i.e. 25 for PAL - Choose "1 Frame(s)" in the field "Anzeigedauer" - Click on the green "Erstelle AVI" Button (means "create AVI") - Choose the Codec & Filename Awesome idea of this thread Froo ;) Post by frootee // Jan 13, 2009, 10:32am frootee Total Posts: 2667 Nice. Thanks for the link Ivam! Yeah, I think this will help us make good use of the realtime renderer. :) Post by robert // Jan 13, 2009, 12:44pm robert Total Posts: 609 Oh that's cool Ivam. Nice thread idea Froo. I hope to be able to add something at some point, but as it stands I'm fresh to this myself. ;) :D Post by parva // Jan 15, 2009, 10:55pm parva Total Posts: 822 Rendering an AVI file With RealTime Render - an alternative program is VirtualDub Increase View Range sometimes it can happen that objects dissapear if they far away from the camera/eye position. This is set by the Far Clipping Value. Best would be to write a code that adapts this value dependent on objects. Unfortunatly for now we can just set the fix value. To do so enter a camera or the EyeCamera (if you don't have a camera in scene) and change the ClippingFar from 1000 to 10000. 17650 More Bitmap Settings For some people surely nothing new but the Bitmap Input brick has some helpful settings. 17651 Useful are the UV adress mode settings Clamp, Wrap and Mirror. Generally the mode "Wrap" is set. That means the texture will be repeated at scaling. Mirror is similar like Wrap just that it does Mirror the repeated image. Clamp uses the images outer pixels for repeating. Border is similar like Clamp just that it uses the custom Border Color. I used clamping for the penguins black dot in the eye for example. So I can alter the size of the black dot just by scaling it there the texture won't repeat the black dot but the white outline. Post by frootee // Jan 17, 2009, 2:03pm frootee Total Posts: 2667 This one's from mr. Jamesmc. :D http://forums1.caligari.com/truespace/showthread.php?t=5890 Post by parva // Jan 31, 2009, 10:04am parva Total Posts: 822 Hadn't found a way to use custom mipmaps yet (DDS textures that store mipmaps directly and allows for custom changes) but for those who want more detail from textures especially leafs and textures with an alpha that has fine details it's more pleasent to dissable the mipmapping and use supersampling instead. Of course it's slow so I recommend it only for still images ;) Here the comparison: 17976 Post by frootee // Jan 31, 2009, 10:20am frootee Total Posts: 2667 thanks parva. That's quite a difference in detail. :)

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