November 26, 2014, 08:18:26 pm
hi Jamie
the 3d plants in pro5 , are almost vray looking , im my opinon .
plus they render out @ about 7 seconds !.
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Thanks for the previews
BABE I do agree that the plants are looking nice in version 5. Although I would hesitate to say it's anywhere near Vray.
IMHO nothing really compares to ray-traced images, but I am still VERY impressed by what Lumion can produce in 7 seconds of render time.
One thing I noticed with the Lumion tree/plants is that they are often too uniform in colour. It would be absolutely fantastic to see Lumion incorporate Vertex-Colours as many other realtime engines do.
Vertex Colours can be composited with with your bitmap/base colour to add lots of extra variation.
You can also use Vertex colours for Lighting and alpha channels as well. Do you know if speedtree can use Vertex Colours?
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Have a look here for more info regarding their use.
http://exlevel.com/forum/index.php?/topic/68-vertex-colours/ I asked for this to be developed a couple of years ago and helped with testing the beta versions of this new feature in
GrowFX Tree/plant modeler
It made such a huge difference to the realism of the trees & plants I create. [see the last page for a render showing the difference with & without vertex colour.]
Fingers crossed that Vertex colours will be part of Lumion one day as it it quite common in most game engines
Cheers
Jamie