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On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 19:10:06 +0200, Christian Jacquemin
<Chr### [at] limsi fr> wrote:
> I have developped Virtual Choreographer a tool for designing 3D scenes
> and exporting them to 2 formats: Renderman and PovRay.
The idea sounds interesting but...
> The tool is still under development and I will distribute the
> source code as soon as it reaches a relatively stable state.
Releasing source code can only help you make it stable. People interested in
using it could help you.
> I also need to write a detailed documentation. I currently
> provide the Linux executable and all the scene description
> files that were used to generate the film. I have also compiled
> VC for MacOSX. It should be easily compiled on Windows as well
> since it is C++/OpenGL.
Hard to be compiled for Windows without sources :-)
> The tool has been used to make a 5'30 film.
The first impression I had is that it is artistic vision of building process
of opera in Sidney ;-)
> The images were
> rendered from the files generated by VC. The film compositing
> and special effects have been made with AfterEffects.
I think that your webpage should contain _raw_ output of your tool. Otherwise
it is hard to say anything about achieved quality.
> Rendering time was relatively long (~ 4 months CPU), but I am
> really happy with the quality of the images made by PovRay.
I think you should investigate a lot in understanding "how to achieve
effective rendering with POV-Ray". For example animation round in IRTC takes 3
months for thinking, designing, scripting, rendering.
> I just got one small problem with flat objects that were
> ignored when they were seen from above almost vertically.
>
>You will find more details on the tool and the film at :
>
> http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/jacquemi/SCEINES/
What resoulution did you used designing this page? Your frames are not
user-friedly under 1024x768 at all.
> I'll be happy to give more details if you are interested.
That would be always welcome. I'm looking forward for info about progress of
this project.
ABX
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