rendering meshes only

mpam76895_15961369c9

Anyone know of a program where you can render geometric meshes; with backgrounds of your choice!?

An weak example is here http://www.fractalfield.com/fractalspacetime/

Dan animates all these geometries and vortexes - with a white or black background usually. What would be awesome is to be able to craft these meshes over or inside daz props. Bryce will render in mesh mode but it's a default background which can't be altered.

patience55

kzerial said:

Anyone know of a program where you can render geometric meshes; with backgrounds of your choice!?

An weak example is here http://www.fractalfield.com/fractalspacetime/

Dan animates all these geometries and vortexes - with a white or black background usually. What would be awesome is to be able to craft these meshes over or inside daz props. Bryce will render in mesh mode but it's a default background which can't be altered.

Okay, it's been a long day and maybe I'm missing the question, but you can render any image you want to in D/S as a background image.
Option is under Edit if I recall correctly.

... and render as .jpg.

Richard Haseltine

I think the desire is to render a wireframe of the mesh, not a shaded and textured version. You can do that in OpenGL, by setting the viewport draw style to whichever mode you want (the sphere icon at top-right of the view port) and then in Render Settings choosing the lowest quality setting. However, it's all or nothing -you can't have some items in shaded view and some in wireframe.

mpam76895_15961369c9

Is OpenGL another program or something in DS? Bryce renders in mesh... all but for the background. More code please! Wondering if there's a way around this.

Generally, what Do say teachers use to demonstrate 3d geometric structures and dynamics? I'm looking for something that can do both this and hydrodynamic action like vortex implosion etc. Perhaps Bryce 7 can do the latter with it's particle feature. If anyone has anis or renders along these lines by all means.

Where is DAZ headquarters btw?

Richard Haseltine

No, OpenGL is just your video card - which DS uses in any of the quality settings other than highest.

throttlekitty

More specifically, OpenGL is the programming language/interface between software and your hardware. "Draw a square here!" -> "OK!"

I don't have much experience in that area, but I think things like Mathematica (http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/) or Matlab (http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/) would be some of the tools of choice for drawing mathematical functions.

Charles West

kzerial said:

Anyone know of a program where you can render geometric meshes; with backgrounds of your choice!?

An weak example is here http://www.fractalfield.com/fractalspacetime/

Dan animates all these geometries and vortexes - with a white or black background usually. What would be awesome is to be able to craft these meshes over or inside daz props. Bryce will render in mesh mode but it's a default background which can't be altered.

Now if you wanted just the mesh of one of the characters you could always cheat by changing the maps ... color the item black and apply the inverse of the pattern map as the transparency.