Sarcophyton
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« on: February 19, 2013, 03:20:41 PM » |
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I just downloaded MB3D yeasterday and spent all day with it. I have a few questions: When I try to add a background image instead of the gradient, it seems to just not work. I tried all different jpgs... am I missing something? I went through John Whitaker's tutorials and they were very helpful. Much of what I try to do though- I get a "formula not found" error. I see Jesse's stickied thread above but I can't figure it out. It leads to another thread with a bunch of stuff... but.... what do I do? Ahy help greatly appreciated!
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taurus
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« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2013, 08:18:11 PM » |
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When I try to add a background image instead of the gradient, it seems to just not work. I'm not a m3d expert, so only a guess about this. I guess you also can't see the background gradient - you see a fog color in the d Fog and Ambient tab the slider settings might obfuscate the settings of the background. I'm sure you find out yourself, which ones
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Madman
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« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2013, 08:33:15 PM » |
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Either set the fog in the ambient tab to zero, or check "add to background depth" in the Back pic tab. D-fog shouldn't be a problem since it is turned off by default. You might want to uncheck "as full background sphere" in the back pic tab, to have an undistorted background. If you have "formula not found" error's, you most likely are not referring to the right folder. Go to the "Ini" tab (left top of the main screen) and check that the M3F folder location is the one where your formula's are. If you haven't done so yet, upgrade all your formula's from this link: http://www.fractalforums.com/mandelbulb-3d/re-custom-formulas-and-transforms-release-t9810/ Hope this works for you
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Sarcophyton
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« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2013, 09:12:48 PM » |
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Thanks! It turns out both my problems were caused by the ini settings. I thought I could load a background pic from anywhere- didn't realize it had to be located in the specific directory. Everything is working.
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Sarcophyton
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« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2013, 09:19:44 PM » |
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Ooh- another question: I see antialiasing for when I want to render an animation, but can't find it to utilize on a still frame...? Also, I notice when I did an animation there seems to be some kind of camera clipping... distant objects suddenly disappeared. I've also seen other people's animations where near objects seem to get cut off by the camera- is there a setting for this. I promise no more questions after that.
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« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2013, 09:32:13 PM » |
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ok , I was wrong last time, so gimmy annother chance. Actually there is no antialiasing function in m3d. It works by downscaling and filtering bigger renders (1:2 and 1:3 mostly). For Stillframes the "pros" here still prefer scaling after postwork in PS, GIMP or whatsoever. But m3d does a pretty good job here too especially on downscaling 1:3.
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Sarcophyton
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« Reply #6 on: February 19, 2013, 10:05:42 PM » |
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So.. are you saying that if I scale up to say, 3200x2400- if I'm viewing 1:3, a saved render will be 800x600 antialiased?
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taurus
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« Reply #7 on: February 19, 2013, 10:13:35 PM » |
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So.. are you saying that if I scale up to say, 3200x2400- if I'm viewing 1:3, a saved render will be 800x600 antialiased?
no, 800x600 it will be at 1:4. 1:3 @ 2400x1800 will save an image of 800x600
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Madman
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« Reply #8 on: February 19, 2013, 11:03:19 PM » |
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I remember having read somewhere (here on FF or probably in the readme file, which is a "must-read"...) that M3D does antialiasing for 1:2 and 1:3 scaling factors, but not above.
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« Reply #9 on: February 19, 2013, 11:26:34 PM » |
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Holy cripes- I never looked at the readme file.
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« Reply #10 on: February 19, 2013, 11:34:26 PM » |
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I remember having read somewhere (here on FF or probably in the readme file, which is a "must-read"...) that M3D does antialiasing for 1:2 and 1:3 scaling factors, but not above.
you can still read this in m3d. just click on "viewing" numbers in main window, only those two ratios are marked as "aa". Above - we should be in common - it does not really make sense -while I don't know, wether it stops filtering...
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« Reply #11 on: February 27, 2013, 09:39:00 AM » |
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Holy cripes- I never looked at the readme file. oh u!
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ramco5611
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« Reply #12 on: May 25, 2013, 05:12:36 AM » |
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I have a question about software to render the movie from the slides that are created in the animation, what is available besides virtual dub?
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taurus
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« Reply #14 on: May 27, 2013, 10:45:36 AM » |
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And besides that, what's wrong with VirtualDub?
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