3d Animation from Therion
Hi I have some people trying to create a high quality 3D animation from Therion surface and model data or outputs. They don't seem to be able to use Aven or Loch for their purposes. They need 'open 3D' obj files. They use Cinema4D, Maya and cd4. Any ideas to produce the 3D compatible raw files? Bruce
Only screen grab programs I'm afraid (+ script?) m. Oct 10, 2013 v 10:14 PM, Bruce <bruce@tomo.co.nz>:
Any ideas to produce the 3D compatible raw files?
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I used the vrml export from Loch to produce a 3D model file which was suitable to get 3D printed. The article about it (written by Mike Bedford, who got the printing done) is in the latest issue of Descent magazine. I could import that model file into other 3D modelling software, so perhaps there is an application out there which can convert it? Footleg On 11 Oct 2013 05:46, "Bruce" <bruce@tomo.co.nz> wrote:
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I have some people trying to create a high quality 3D animation from Therion surface and model data or outputs. They don’t seem to be able to use Aven or **Loch** for their purposes.****
They need ‘open 3D’ obj files. They use Cinema4D, Maya and cd4.****
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Any ideas to produce the 3D compatible raw files?****
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+++ Footleg [2013-10-11 08:24 +0100]:
I used the vrml export from Loch to produce a 3D model file which was suitable to get 3D printed. The article about it (written by Mike Bedford, who got the printing done) is in the latest issue of Descent magazine. I could import that model file into other 3D modelling software, so perhaps there is an application out there which can convert it?
'meshlab' looks like a good tool for doing this http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/ (already packaged in Debian). I expect blender can too, but some goolgeing suggests that this needs extra scripts. The wavefront .obj file seems a fairly straightforward format: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavefront_.obj_file#File_format But it only represents surfaces so far as I can see, not lines. So we can export terrain and volumes, but not plain surveys (without faking survey lines into cylinders). It does look like this would be a useful format to output. Or teach meshlab to read/write .3D and/or lox. Do Bruces' mates know that Aven can export a video file directly, animating a survey? However that can only have a mesh surface (as generated by terraintool) currently, which may or may not be 'high quality' enough for their purposes. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/
Now I am on the computer where I was playing with these VRML models, I can confirm that the viewer I was using was ParaView http://paraview.org/ I've just checked, and it can export to POV-Ray format, the open source ray tracing software which can be used to produce very high quality rendering. Footleg On 11 October 2013 19:37, Wookey <wookey@wookware.org> wrote:
+++ Footleg [2013-10-11 08:24 +0100]:
I used the vrml export from Loch to produce a 3D model file which was suitable to get 3D printed. The article about it (written by Mike Bedford, who got the printing done) is in the latest issue of Descent magazine. I could import that model file into other 3D modelling software, so perhaps there is an application out there which can convert it?
'meshlab' looks like a good tool for doing this http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/ (already packaged in Debian). I expect blender can too, but some goolgeing suggests that this needs extra scripts.
The wavefront .obj file seems a fairly straightforward format: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavefront_.obj_file#File_format
But it only represents surfaces so far as I can see, not lines. So we can export terrain and volumes, but not plain surveys (without faking survey lines into cylinders).
It does look like this would be a useful format to output. Or teach meshlab to read/write .3D and/or lox.
Do Bruces' mates know that Aven can export a video file directly, animating a survey? However that can only have a mesh surface (as generated by terraintool) currently, which may or may not be 'high quality' enough for their purposes.
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On 11/10/13 19:37, Wookey wrote:
'meshlab' looks like a good tool for doing this http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/ (already packaged in Debian).
But only a very buggy version, that will not even save a project (well that was what it was like about a month ago Andrew
+++ Andrew Atkinson [2013-10-12 09:08 +0100]:
On 11/10/13 19:37, Wookey wrote:
'meshlab' looks like a good tool for doing this http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/ (already packaged in Debian).
But only a very buggy version, that will not even save a project (well that was what it was like about a month ago
So it is. Confirmed and fixed. (in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=718583) Updated deb here: http://wookware.org/software/repo/pool/main/m/meshlab/ Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/
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