[rescue] Using you SGIs: Wings3D

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on 6/20/02 10:18 AM, Joshua D Boyd at jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 09:13:08AM -0500, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
>> Joshua D Boyd wrote:
>> 
>>> On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 07:08:29AM -0400, Torquil MacCorkle, III wrote:
>>>> Distributed rendering support?
>>> 
>>> This is just a modeller, not a scene composition, animation, whatever
>>> tool. As such it does not support distributed rendering.  But, you can
>>> export your models as .rib, .3ds, .ngo, and .obj formats for easy
>>> import into whatever program you desire, such as blender, kpov, moray,
>>> etc. 
>>> 
>> Since it exports .rib files, you can use BMRT to render the files and
>> rsh/ssh to distribute the rendering. It's not pretty, but I have done it
>> and it works.
>> 
>> If you want a quick and dirty prebuilt set of scripts let me know.
> 
> I thought BMRT came with a premade distributed renderer manager...  I
> could be wrong.
> 
> It still is the case that Wings3D has nothing to do with this, which
> is just as well since you aren't going to get the greatest of pictures
> without texturing and layout first.
> 
> Actually, I have the source code for a half decent texturing program.
> I'm trying to port it to fltk and linux (MFC and Windows at the
> moment), then I want to add support for multiple maps and more
> flexible brush engine (at the moment it has basically an airbrush and
> nothing else).  
> 
> Currently semi decent layout programs are a dime a dozen.  Most of
> them will do texturing, but often only simple mappings (like project,
> spherical, cylindrical, etc), whereas UV mapped and hand paint always
> has kinda nice results.
 
Port PVMPOV(distributed povray) to windows while you are at it :)

    It is what I have been using for distributed rendering because i like
stuff that runs on basically any modern UNIX. Now if only it ran on windows
(the last system I have not running it)...

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Thanks,
Torquil MacCorkle, III
Lexington, Virginia