Comments on: Vray and Pinscreen effect Tutorial!

By: Mostafa

Mostafa — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 06:34:34 +0000

3d is my life

By: bindiya

bindiya — Tue, 24 May 2011 16:16:27 +0000

v nice

By: orelita

orelita — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:30:45 +0000

i m a big fan of you!!!!!! thank you very mutch for every thing !!!!!

By: Ciro Sannino - Author

Ciro Sannino - Author — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:41:41 +0000

Thanks I updated the link

Anyway following the istructions I spent just 30secs to find the new link.

By: zhivko

zhivko — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:26:39 +0000

Link with tut is dead …

By: fer

fer — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:49:24 +0000

HELLO, SOMEONE CAN EXPLAIN TO ME HOW TO INSTALL VRAY?

THANKS

By: Cirosan

Cirosan — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:47:04 +0000

Thanks KYIS … I added your link “behind the scenes” to the post!

By: kyis

kyis — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:53:15 +0000

While trying to reproduce the effect I watched the video again and saw this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx4VLO2u1E0

That explain the “footage” part.

I found multiple methods to move the nails based on the footage:
-using a displaced plane as a PFlow emitter and the nails as particles, it’s fast and does the trick.

-displacing the nails on a single axis with prepared footage so that the nails don’t deform.

-scripting the “stick to a displaced plane” part avoiding the use of pflow (might be more of an “academic” solution than pflow)

-scripting directly the position of the nails based on the luminance of the footage (pain in the ass if you ask me)

By: kyis

kyis — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:26:27 +0000

I didn’t look too much but I don’t think it’s as simple as it looks ^^
first the map for the movement of the nails, I don’t think it was rendered, it’s probably live footage, the work start here, I’m not sure if it’s only normal footage that was used to give an illusion of depth or something more complex, if it’s complex, I can think of multiple methods to get something that works as a height map:
- lighting tricks with black background , subject with very few contrasts, lighting perpendicular to point of view.
-reconstructed depth from 2 or more cameras at different positions (there is some software solutions available for that and at this level of detail it works like a charm).

After that the movement of the nails are “linked” to the footage in a similar way as displacement, the map associated with displacement move vertices’s along normals based on luminance values of the map while in this case the map is used to control the position of the nails on an axis between a max and a min position also based on the luminance of the map.

I think it’s possible without scripting I already did something similarsome time ago, I captured a visualization from an audio player and then used it in 3dsmax on an array of cubes to make them “jump” along the music.

By: muneer kappan

muneer kappan — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:32:17 +0000

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