I experienced that too. I had to use Bump-Maps on all objects with textures which solved the problem.

Regards,
Carsten

@Ariana: Sorry did not got the message that there was a new Reply.

I guess its too late to answer your questions....

Interaction in this case is to walk trough the site and enjoy. In the Blender visualisation we hat a display of ceiling heights, could change items of the new building, change the head hight of the observer and so on.

Due to the interactivity, quite some errors in the original construction (2D CAD by the arcitects) were revealed. Saved lots of money...

Regards,
Carsten

So you're using smooth now? In that case I guess it is a limitation of the current lightmapper (which is begin replaced).

Greetings,

Ok, so is there a roadmap when this will happen?

Regards,
Carsten.

Erm sorry, I did mix two things in my mind....

In fact the above scene did not had smooth set (by accident), however I rendered the scene again with a plain yellow texture because the effect is more obvious then:



Maybe this is explaining what I mean. I think it happens where the edges of the faces meet. Maybe some interpolation or compression artifacts?

Regards,
Carsten

[unusable]

Hi,

maybe it is a bug, maybe a feature, but I think that lightmaps are unusable on round things.

Look here:



There is no interpolation or smoothing between the lightmaps on the individual faces (I think) and this is rendering the smoothing useless. On genmeshes there are no lightmaps an so no shadows.... using hires meshes is also not an option (see left column).

Is there hope to solve this in near future? This really drives me crazy a I want to use CS more on projects.

Regards,
Carsten

Ha! Great release!

Regards,
Carsten

I made it as my standard test scene for crystal2blend

Hmm somehow I know that scene

Yes it is the standard renderloop. I think about 60fps constant but on a quite fast computer. On a 1GHz AMD with NvidiaGF4Ti it runs smooth, even quite interactive on a laptop@1.4GHz with a GF2go.

shadowed is much too slow and not looking very well if I remember my early tests.

Regards,
Carsten

I am also not very deep inside character animation (because at the time I wrote for NaN documentation the character animation was still in a very early stage...).

However if you have questions concerning normal IPO animation please ask!

Regards,
Carsten

New Screenshots:





There are still some smoothing problems (see the column on the right)














Regards,
Carsten

what can I say? Its simple but works

CVS, maybe 4-5 days old.

Regards,
Carsten, going to IRC now.

Things also support smoothing. You just have to add the <smooth/> keyword to the thing.

Greetings,

Hello Jorrit,

the right thingmeshes are smooth (as you expected on irc the <smooth/> keyword is set correctly by blender2crystal ), my concern is the quality of the smoothing.

Regards,
Carsten

Hi,

I noticed some artifacts on smoothed thingmeshes.



I guess its in the lightmaps, it seems (for me as non-programmer) that there is no smoothing while lightmap generation or the interpolation between lightmaps is not good.

The right object is a genmesh which is smooth ok, because genmeshes seem not to use lightmaps at all (or is there a way?).

I used simple textures to show the problem clearly, but even on objects with normal textures you often see artifacts. Maybe I can do something against it (tried the -lightqual and -lightmapsetting with no luck) or is is a matter of the renderer (new renderer was used)?

Regards,
Carsten.