Forest Pack Pro new EDGE option

[atelieryork]

This is superb news...

[3dwannab]

will be implemented on Itoo's side

Maybe I'm not the most patient man in the world but did they give a timeframe for it to be implemented there side. If not then I'll go to the forum and ask.

[Ondra]

I got some, but I was asked not to share it, because it might change. You can go ahead and ask them ;)

[3dwannab]

Yeah, I done that anyway ;]  Their response.
http://forum.itoosoft.com/index.php?topic=2789.msg11977#msg11977

We are working on a solution for Corona and Mental Ray, if all goes well you should see it in the forthcoming release of Forest Pack. I don't have a date for that at the moment I'm afraid, but Subscribers will be able to test the beta when it becomes available.

Many thanks!

Paul

Time for a....

[mtanasiewicz]

Where is the "Like it" button?

[filanek]

There is something I discovered by accident, I just used the script to convert my multiscatter grass, I use in vray scenes, there is vraydistance texture for "slicing" large patches of grass in opacity slot. Nice surprise was that corona supports this vray texture!

[atelieryork]

Nice!

[romullus]

It's not so nice when you see how it's killing performance, though. Nevertheless it's always better to have an option than not.

[Frood]

Just tested Beta 5.0.1 + Max 2016 + Corona 1.3: Could not make edge mode work. Viewport preview (Ctrl+Click "Edge" radiobutton) shows a promising result. Itoo included Corona materials with Forest_Edge map in the opacity slot (a shell map to enable Corona and MR to use edge mode - happy coding DeadClown ;).

When I create a new Material using Forest_Edge in opacity slot, the material becomes completely invisible. The same happens when I untick Legacy mode in the provided  materials.

Edge mode works in MR now using Forest_Edge in fact. Was anyone successful with Corona yet? Or is still something missing at Coronas side?

Good Luck

[mitviz]

just great that corona has its own scatterer, itoo sometimes has issues with things disappearing and adds to the cost of paying for an extra software

[atelieryork]

You know, I never tried CoronaScatter yet.... I'm intrigued to see how it works for simple things like rugs and grass etc. We've just finished a very complex FP-based project that CS would not have worked for but if CS is being developed quickly it could be a very good general solution.

[vkiuru]

Just tested Beta 5.0.1 + Max 2016 + Corona 1.3: Could not make edge mode work. Viewport preview (Ctrl+Click "Edge" radiobutton) shows a promising result. Itoo included Corona materials with Forest_Edge map in the opacity slot (a shell map to enable Corona and MR to use edge mode - happy coding DeadClown ;).

When I create a new Material using Forest_Edge in opacity slot, the material becomes completely invisible. The same happens when I untick Legacy mode in the provided  materials.

Edge mode works in MR now using Forest_Edge in fact. Was anyone successful with Corona yet? Or is still something missing at Coronas side?

Good Luck

I found a way around this is to load one FPs own presets, copy its material to mat.editor and since the presets have materials set up with Forest_edge in opacity channel, just copy&paste your own materials' maps over the preset materials diffuse etc slots, apply the customized preset materialto your own models/forest and it works.. doesn't even take that long to set up in the end. It's still strange that applying the Forest_Edge to your own materials bugs out.

[Frood]

I think this only works since 5.0.2b. Edge mode of beta 5.0.1b didn´t worked at all in Corona.

Better to wait for a stable release :)
Good Luck!

[RolandB]

It works perfectly with the new 5.02 ! an it seems very stable.

[Frood]

Very nice! 30-50% performance drop in some average scene is quite expensive though. But it seems that Itoo drastically reduced the lag after selecting a forest object - even nicer :)

Good Luck!