fascinating!

but shouldn't you put domino playing aside and begin some serious alchemy? ;)

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WOW! This is looking very good, including the textures.

Thomas

PS LUA reminds me of Moray...

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> Hi All:
>
>
Those painted donimoes have seen beter days...

The placement of the pieces is realy convincing.

I have a small gripe: in a normal dominoes set, there is only one of 
each pip combinations. You have two 6-4 and 6-3s in 
domino-27-effect-physics, two 6-3s in domino-28-effect-physics and five! 
3-1s, two double 6s, 2-1, 2-0 in domino-29-effect-physics...

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On 03/09/12 15:47, Ive wrote:
> Am 03.09.2012 13:05, schrieb Jaime Vives Piqueres:
>> ... just using (automated) copy&paste of the matrix transforms
>> exported by the program, into my dominoes scene.
>>
> Impressive, the dominoes are absolutely believable scattered around.

   Yes, the Bullet Physics Library seems to work pretty accurately, at
least for boxes and spheres, which is the only thing I tried for the
moment... if you search into youtube, there are some amazing examples of
what it can do.

> The texture is also very believable, as usual ;)

   It's a mixed technique... the borders use an additional layer with a
boxed pattern, but for the dots I had to use image patterns on a third
layer.

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On 03/09/12 16:04, nemesis wrote:
> fascinating!
>
> but shouldn't you put domino playing aside and begin some serious
> alchemy? ;)
>
>

   Well, at least I already made a copy of the original scene folder into
my povray-3.7/scenes/wips folder... :)

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Jaime

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On 03/09/12 16:17, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> WOW! This is looking very good, including the textures.

   Thanks!

> PS LUA reminds me of Moray...

   It's my first time using LUA, but seems easy and practical enough for
my limited usage inside Koppi's playground.

--
Jaime

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On 04/09/12 06:19, Alain wrote:

>> Hi All:
>>
>>
> Those painted donimoes have seen beter days...

   You're quite right: I just modeled it after my own cheap set, which
has well over 30 years. It was heavily used by my father and his friends
during summers, and lately has been used as a construction set by my 3
nieces...

> The placement of the pieces is realy convincing.

   And the best part is that I didn't have to arrange it by hand.

> I have a small gripe: in a normal dominoes set, there is only one of
> each pip combinations. You have two 6-4 and 6-3s in
> domino-27-effect-physics, two 6-3s in domino-28-effect-physics and
> five! 3-1s, two double 6s, 2-1, 2-0 in domino-29-effect-physics...

   Ah... yes, I was expecting someone will notice. :) I'm creating the
pieces with a nice macro which accepts the two numbers as parameters,
but for these scenes I'm just feeding random numbers between 0 and 6.

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Jaime

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Jaime Vives Piqueres <jai### [at] ignoranciaorg> wrote:
>    Yes, the Bullet Physics Library seems to work pretty accurately, at
> least for boxes and spheres, which is the only thing I tried for the
> moment... if you search into youtube, there are some amazing examples of
> what it can do.

These look great Jaime. It's interesting to see this post because I've been
playing around with the C++ Bullet library on and off for the past couple of
months and pondering how to integrate into POV-Ray.

I know that Bullet is used by big name CG programs like SoftImage and Cinema4d,
and for many video games and movie companies too (Shrek, Megamind, Toy Story,
etc). So far I've just been using it to fill containers full of random junk, or
to topple stacks of bricks to simulate building damage. Some of the soft body
physics looks really fun, but I haven't had much time to work with it lately.

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On 04/09/12 16:39, Robert McGregor wrote:
> [...] I've been playing around with the C++ Bullet library on and
> off for the past couple of months and pondering how to integrate
> into POV-Ray.
>

   You mean literally "into POV-Ray"? Or a external tool integrated with
POV-Ray for rendering?

   Ideally, I think the best thing would be to have it integrated with
the POV-Ray parser... but wow, that would be a real challenge, I guess.

   A more practical approach can be something like Koppi's Playground,
but adding a few things like CSG with the basic objects, support of
OBJ/3DS, and being able to customize the exported SDL for each object.

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Jaime

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On 4-9-2012 12:39, Jaime Vives Piqueres wrote:
> On 03/09/12 16:17, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>> PS LUA reminds me of Moray...
>
>    It's my first time using LUA, but seems easy and practical enough for
> my limited usage inside Koppi's playground.

Many of the plugins for Moray were/are written in LUA. I did not delve 
deep into its language but it was fairly easy to use indeed.

Thomas

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