Interrogation Room: Released "as-is" for now

StratDragon

This as far as modeling/texturing and lighting is done. It's optmized for 3Delight and Reality but I had strange results in Iray which I'll be happy to figure out if anyone feels like putting a TitanBlack in my shopping cart.

Either way last time I made a prop from a series of OBJ's I had some problems. Does anyone have a suggestion as to what tools are in DS4.8 to allow me to export this without issue so others can use it? Is there a tutoral on it. Casual had a script but I don't seem to have it any longer and don't know if it works in 4.8

Here's the render in Lux out of DS, it's grainy because it was just in there for a few minutes.

 

[edit] This is the PRE-RELEASE RELEASE, you can download it, I have not worked the kinks with compatibity but the model is complete as you see in the promo

http://www.sharecg.com/v/81616/view/5/3D-Model/Interrogation-Room

 

patience55

StratDragon said:

This as far as modeling/texturing and lighting is done. It's optmized for 3Delight and Reality but I had strange results in Iray which I'll be happy to figure out if anyone feels like putting a TitanBlack in my shopping cart.

Either way last time I made a prop from a series of OBJ's I had some problems. Does anyone have a suggestion as to what tools are in DS4.8 to allow me to export this without issue so others can use it? Is there a tutoral on it. Casual had a script but I don't seem to have it any longer and don't know if it works in 4.8

Here's the render in Lux out of DS, it's grainy because it was just in there for a few minutes.

Haven't tried that script in 4.8 ... was finding PP12 was having some issue with some of the props it created. However in D/S4.x you can, for D/S users do the File > Save As > prop file ... then share the data and prop folders' subfolders with the content. To get the .obj files, you can export out the .obj file(s) ... use "COLLECT maps" if they are all shares or "no maps" if we're to use our own. These normally load in Poser and any other program I've tried just fine. [not that I own many but anyways ....]

 

mCasual

for my props i use Daz Studio 3 and the "PP2 Exporter" by duke533 

the extra precious link http://puzzlekiraly.hu/lom

when used in DS4.8 it creates (very) unusable obj files

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dang it's not there anymore

but here

http://puzzlekiraly.hu/lom/PP2 exp 2b.dsa

you have a non encrypted version, which i will try in DS4.8 right now !

i load the desk prop which is a 3 parts prop ( mcjDesk3684 )

i select the root node

i run the code i copied from the net

and drum rolls, i load the prop i made and ....

FAIL

so i go look in my geometries folder

here's an excerpt from one of the obj files

# Exported from DAZ Studio 4.8

# mcjDesk36.cn3_691
v 2.22552e+19 -1.43716e+17 0.0469787
v 2.22472e+19 -1.43504e+17 0.0469799
v 2.22241e+19 -1.43716e+17 0.0469803
v 2.22241e+19 -1.43996e+17 0.0469787
v 2.22552e+19 -1.42883e+17 0.0469803
v 2.22658e+19 -1.42883e+17 0.0469787
v -2.22495e+19 -1.42883e+17 0.0469803
v -2.2237e+19 -1.43504e+17 0.0469799
v -2.22007e+19 -1.43716e+17 0.0469803
v -2.22007e+19 -1.42883e+17 0.0469809

as you can see, the problem is that, the obj export part of this not working with DS4.8

which explains why i use it or another version in DS3

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one could try to identify which obj file corresponds to which of the prop parts, and export the .obj files "manually" ( in Poser Units scale )

but, this script also changes the material names before exporting them, so the prop file ( .pp2) material names

would not match the material names in the "manually" exported obj files

BUT, the prop would load

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since exporting props from DS4.8 would be nice , even if i can do it in DS3 

lets see if i can fix the script !

... after a little snack

interesting, contrary to my first intuition, the export process is not at fault

i swapped the code for the code i use in mcjTeleBlender3 and ... same corrupt obj file

but i see that just before the export, there's a call to a function named "centerNodes();"

which is where the corruption must happen

because the geometry in DS4.5+ is extremely different from the one in older Daz Studios

...

the case continues (  )

 

YES!!!

 

# Exported from DAZ Studio 4.8

# mcjDesk36.cn2_691
v 0.282666 0.229426 0.146206
v 0.282638 0.229381 0.14639
v 0.282557 0.229426 0.146455
v 0.282557 0.229485 0.146206
v 0.282666 0.229251 0.146455
v 0.282703 0.229251 0.146206
v 0.126779 0.229251 0.146455
v 0.126823 0.229381 0.14639
v 0.12695 0.229426 0.146455

and we're in luck because the faulty code doesnt involve access to the geometry!

i disabled the recenter/unrecenter code and the props are not thrown at the edges of the universe anymore

i just have to reformulate the code they use to re-center the nodes ( and figure why )

and make it compatible with DS4.5+

 

 

the bug ->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.  around line 741

oNode.setWSScale( DzMatrix3() );

which we will replace by 

//changes by mCasualJacques July 20 2015 ** begin **
// oNode.setWSScale( DzMatrix3() );
oNode.getScaleControl().setValue(1);
oNode.getXScaleControl().setValue(1);
oNode.getYScaleControl().setValue(1);
oNode.getZScaleControl().setValue(1);
//changes by mCasualJacques July 20 2015 ** end ** 

 

it worked :)

 

i'll check if i can locate JWAS or Duke533 and post the fix on my site or on theirs

 

ok the copyright notice says we can do what we want with the code

 

 

but the final solution will be slightly different then what i stated and closer to the original in effect 

( for parented scaling issues )

 

 

mCasual

ok final analysis

we will replace

oNode.setWSScale( DzMatrix3() );

with

oNode.setWSScale( DzMatrix3(1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0) );

 

mCasual

and i'll fix the disappearing buttons issue 

and there's an error in the props that make their default scale 0 instead of 1,

so when you "zero" most of my props, they disappear because they get scaled to 0% !

 

so around line 393

 

/* mCasualJacques change - important that the default zero scale is 1 not 0 */

//writeLine("initValue 0");

writeLine(String("initValue %1").arg( nVal ));

/* mCasualJacques change - important that the default zero scale is 1 not 0 */

 

 

mCasual

it's ready

http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/59598/make-poser-props-pp2exporter-by-duke533-now-works-in-ds4-8

 

note: the script mcjPackager : https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts2/mcjpackager is really really worth reading about

StratDragon

hey cas, this is amazing but when I put those .files in my scripts they dont show when I browse to the folder through the app.

I'm on a mac right now

any thoughts?

 

 

 

mCasual

i dont really know MACs but the icon for the script and the "kind" seem to show that what you placed in that folder is not the files from the zip file, but links or shortcuts to them

 

StratDragon

mCasual said:

i dont really know MACs but the icon for the script and the "kind" seem to show that what you placed in that folder is not the files from the zip file, but links or shortcuts to them

 

Son of a goat! It was right in front of me. No good comes from drinking decaf!

 

 

StratDragon

ok, now a new issue. It saves but it names everything "untitled"

 

mCasual

in the PP2 exporter dialog you can change the base name for the prop and the base name for the objects, and their location

by default the name of the files is the name of the root node of your prop ( or label but i think it's the name )

if you want to change the name of the currently selected node to ThatsTheNameIWantthenameiwant

you could use this script

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var nm = "ThatsTheNameIWantthenameiwant";

var node = Scene.getPrimarySelection();

if( node )

{

node.setName( nm );

node.setLabel( nm );

}

SteveM17

I like it! Always on the look out for good interiors such as this. Cheers!