truespace compositing nodes released

[clintonman]

I think I got the compositing nodes to a usable state. It consists of an object library full of nodes and an update to my rsx plugin. Also included is a bump map to normal map converter that runs faster than the script only version I posted last year. They can be downloaded here:

http://www.clintons3d.com/plugins/trues ... index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

you can see a list and brief description of the nodes here:

http://www.clintons3d.com/plugins/trues ... eNode.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I'll try to get some kind of tutorial/instructional materials out in the near future.

[Peter]

Hello clintonman,

I'm very interested in these compositing tools.
Question: do these take as input a sequence of images or an avi, or do they take input from the current output of a 3D window (or windows)? The latter would be outstanding!

Also, do you have a sample scene file we could look at to help learning?

Thanks a lot for this - I'm sure it was a lot of work.

[clintonman]

Hello clintonman,

I'm very interested in these compositing tools.
Question: do these take as input a sequence of images or an avi, or do they take input from the current output of a 3D window (or windows)? The latter would be outstanding!

Also, do you have a sample scene file we could look at to help learning?

Thanks a lot for this - I'm sure it was a lot of work.

It only reads image sequences. So no avi or any other movie format. They cannot read from the 3d view like perspective, right, top... but you can read images from a scene camera by using the D3D Texture render target node. You can find a sample scene in the Render to Texture library. The node has a Preview refresh input that can be turned on by changing the value from 0 to 1. It's texture output can be sent to the compositing nodes.

I'll see what I can do about the learning materials. It's in the plan but I haven't gotten around to it yet.

[v3rd3]

Thanks again Clinton....

[Peter]

Hi Clinton,

The input from camera sounds interesting.
Thanks for the info.

[clintonman]

Update:
Fixed some bugs and made small aspects for the nodes so they fit better in the link editor.

http://www.clintons3d.com/plugins/trues ... index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I also started working on the tut's. I'll post here when the first one is done.

[clintonman]

The first tutorial is up.

http://www.clintons3d.com/tutorials/TScompositing.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Peter]

Wow!
This is absolutely great.
Easy to use, too.
The videos really help!

Thanks for this great suite of tools. I'll be needing them.

[clintonman]

Thanks for the encouragement. I put a preview video on the page to show what's coming up for the next tutorial. Here's a still from the video:

Go to the tutorial page to see the video:

http://www.clintons3d.com/tutorials/TScompositing.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[clintonman]

The green screen video tutorial is done. Same link as last time:

http://www.clintons3d.com/tutorials/TScompositing.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Total running time is about 1hour 30minutes.