Another general (curious) Questions...

[k_iwan]

Hi again,

I've been using vizard for quite sometime now, and I must say It's a great piece of software. Big plus!!! on the functionality side. I was able to use 5dt data glove and clustering with no problem at all.

Due to the nature of my position while working with vizard (3d artist - bit of scripting), I'm curious If vizard dev team would improve the program visually;
a) Real Time Bloom effect? I fake this effect within blender using Yafray, bake the texture -> import into Vizard
b) Real Time Global Illumination? This again, I bake in Blender using Yafray.
c) Real Time soft/Hard Shadows? I bake shadows in BLender by using Yafray(again), L3DT, others. I find in Vizard that light penetrates polygons and after polygons even.. I could see light in a enclosed polygon room.

Considering that Vizard actually runs on Opengl... is there a plan to give support on DirectX as well??

Is there an example how to implement CG shaders into vizard? like cg code -> vizard plugin sdk -> xxx -> xxx -> vizard?

I'm asking just out of curiosity. Thanks for your time.

Regards,
Iwan

[Gladsomebeast]

Developing the visual capabilities of Vizard is important to us. Vizard 3.0 will have a number of improvements that have not yet been finalized.

Vizard currently supports the Open GL 2.0 shading laugage. Check out the examples Vizard30\examples\shader

[tobin]

Regarding your c) from above, can you elaborate or attach a screenshot. I'm not following what you mean by light penetration.

[k_iwan]

Hi,

I will. I'm tied up this week, I'll send you couple of screen-shots by next monday. Thanks!

Regards,
k_iwan

[k_iwan]

@tobin;

I've created a demo where light penetrates polygons as I mentioned above in point (c). The filesize is 3.5 mb, I can't post this in the forum, could I send this to your email address instead?

My vizard expired last night, I tested the files and all worked fine.

When will the next beta be released? We are going to have an open day in our dept. on 09-sept-06 The demos that we created utilise features from Vizard 3 beta, and can't be run from Vizard 2.53 (this is the license that we owned). (pls check www.mq.edu.au for more info about the open day)

Regards,
Iwan

[Gladsomebeast]

A new beta will be released sometime this week.