Claymod public beta now available

WhiteNoise · Post by **WhiteNoise** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 4:00 pm

See my blog for details and download:

http://www.whitenoiseaudio.com/blog/

sRc · Post by **sRc** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 4:11 pm

the buttons dont line up right... i can go to push "Smooth" and it'll push "Push" instead...

evo · Post by **evo** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 8:25 pm

Look I made a mushroom

Very nice and intuitive program. Thanks for including an undo feature

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WhiteNoise · Post by **WhiteNoise** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 11:59 pm

Nice work!

bitplane · Post by **bitplane** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 2:18 am

this is fun! being artisticly challenged, I think i'd struggle to make something from scratch.. so I turned your demo-head into a boxer instead

some quirks to report.. when painting, and the brush is under a certain size it misses some vertexes (when you paint over the centre of a triangle and not a vertex?). also, when i load an obj file in, it appears bright white until i touch it with any tool, then it goes very dark and i can't change the colours.
I love the tool, very easy to use.. with more practice maybe i'll make something

TheGameMaker · Post by **TheGameMaker** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 2:46 pm

mhh.. ho much polys can it take??
(independent from this: great work... I´ll try it now^^)
TGM

TheGameMaker · Post by **TheGameMaker** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 3:06 pm

WOAO genius work!!

I realy love it. I like it much more than Zbrush...
a few sugestions for usefull featurs:
wirefame view
Flatshaded Wireframe
a previebox for the brushcolor
(dunno if its allready done, don have a obj here at this PC) an obj loader,
and an obj exporter
and if you realy want to make it commerziel one time, you should make it possible to youse bw imags for brushe intensety... maybre fallof etc..

but i would defently buy this tool for up to 50$ I think..

Once more impressive, especialy, thats uimposible to push a tri through another!!
TGM

WhiteNoise · Post by **WhiteNoise** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 10:15 pm

Cool, glad you guys are enjoying it. Thanks for the suggestions. I haven't really hit a limit on how many triangles it can do, but I think the most I've done is around 250,000 triangles. It should be able to handle up to 2 billion theoretically (limited by your memory of course).

It is possible to push triangles through each other but in most cases it doesn't happen. Using the inflate brush you can make it happen (same thing happens in Z-Brush though). The smooth brush can heal things once it gets messed up though..

-Dave

evo · Post by **evo** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 9:08 pm

Some more features:

A symmetric modeling function would be nice. When making a face for instance, every change you make one one side of the face is immediately duplicated on the other side. You would need to define a 3d-plane for this to work.
Maybe you can allow an arbitrary number of symmetry planes to be defined.

A color-picker (from the model) might also be useful.

WhiteNoise · Post by **WhiteNoise** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 11:11 pm

Yeah, I think those will be the next features that I implement. I also wanted to add some kind of 'texture' brushes where you can load an image and use it as a brush.

etcaptor · Post by **etcaptor** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 11:43 pm

Nice stuff WhiteNoise. Your tool can be a weapon in hands of artist, when all features will be released.
I just tried it and got just one questions:
Because you give example with human face and Irrlicht does not supports normal mapping for animated meshes

maybe you have any issue for this problem?

chromdragon · Post by **chromdragon** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 7:57 am

Pretty cool! Congratulation.

WhiteNoise · Post by **WhiteNoise** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 1:49 pm

etcaptor: No, I haven't solved that yet. Hopefully someone will add support for some mesh formats/scene nodes that support bones and tangents. I think this is a really important feature. For now, you can use the tool to make static objects. I also can add a feature to 'bake' the lighting into the diffuse texture, then you can use it in irrlicht without normal mapping.

Chromdragon: thanks, I will add your color picker in the next version.

etcaptor · Post by **etcaptor** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 11:20 pm

Thanks for reply,
I just made some tests with normal mapping and not animated .x models and found that when normal/paralax/ map is used engine stops supporting of smoth and character looks badly then with using of diffuse mapping. In this case will avoid using of normal map for charecters.

I also can add a feature to 'bake' the lighting into the diffuse texture, then you can use it in irrlicht without normal mapping.

This method sounds like issue for these problems. I will waiting for some screenshots.

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 11:31 pm

etcaptor wrote:I just made some tests with normal mapping and not animated .x models and found that when normal/paralax/ map is used engine stops supporting of smoth and character looks badly then with using of diffuse mapping. In this case will avoid using of normal map for charecters.

This is a known issue. The normals are recalculated along with the tangents such that smoothed normals are lost. Unfortunately no one found a final working solution, yet. Or better, no one implemented one, yet.