PhotoWorks: Did you know?

Mike,

You are like a PhotoWorks God or something. I just wish I knew how to use PhotoWorks to begin with. Unfortunately, I don't have a need for it in my industry very often so I have never had a chance to try to learn it.

Please post your findings on the Flight 77 thing when you get done.....

Thanks Seth. Paul Salvador, Ed Eaton, Brian Hill and others really helped me with their very-very useful tips.

You bet! The models will all be freeware, and I'll see what I can do about some of the mis-information I've run across. Maybe do an FAQ or something.

Mike

Mike, is it possible to take a jpeg of the actual room as it is in SW. Maybe it is before the early morning coffee, maybe it is just because I am not the morning person. My head is just not wrapping around this. From my understanding, you put a lens that is bigger than the model in front of it and then added the proper material?

Mike J. Wilson said regarding this

how accurate the >PhotoWorks effects are compared to a real lens, but I believe it all can be calculated somehow >ahead of time so you know what the rendering will look like before you start.

If you use SW Perspective view you shouldn't have to make the lense all that big just locate it well. Although you could make it small and scale it up to desired size. Though to have accurate bending of the light you would have to locate it at the real vantage point. I wonder if you could make a binocular effect with 2 lenses at varying distances from eachother. That must be what my "bug eye" render is missing Mike.

Corey Scheich

Funny that we are now talking about how the lens might be able to do this and the the likes. I have been playing with the curve of the lense and keeping the model in the same orientation. and seeing what kind of effects come out of it. It gets really kewl when you create the surface so that it is almost like 1/2, or close to it, sphere shape.

No problemo.

Here is a screenshot representing the overall scale. As you can see, the lens is just about actual size...

Material Type: Glass Specular: 0 Roughness: 1 Transparent: 1

I zoomed all the way into the lens. It's strange, but it works!

Mike

That would be a fun experiment. I wonder if you would have to focus it? Ha! A poor mans blur affect... whoa, that would be cool.

Mike

Now if you could make the lense dirty.

Funny th> > Mike, is it possible to take a jpeg of the actual room as it is in SW. >

Maybe multiple lenses for the telescope, include a mirror to look at virtural stars... All jokes aside this is awsome! well done

You would have to use AutoCad and model the stars in Light Years. What is the distance between lenses in Light Years? I don't think 8 Decimal places will cut it. =^)

Corey

No , i didnt know. this is actually very helpful , because i have problems with the perspective changing when you add bigger geometry (but my rendered view perspective has to stay the same,but it does not).

Thanks mike

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