Maya for 3D Printing - Rapid Prototyping
In this course we're going to look at something a little different, creating technically accurate 3D printed parts.
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15-07-2004
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Rendering a volumetric area ?
Example: I have a building with 5 stories and need to render stages where each stage reveals a different level within the building - now if I could place a volume and render only what is inside and then move it and render another area - This would be great !
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21-07-2004
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Imagine you have a 5 levels building and you want to show the 3rd level in isometric view without having to cut the building to slices - which is possible but takes a lot of time to do (which is exactly what I have done in this case...!).
In Revit , for example - there is a way to show the modeler only what is enclosed within a user defined box so you may work easily on this area and later - reveal the rest.
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21-07-2004
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22-07-2004
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Try making some layered shaders with the shaders you're using as the base layer, and a new shader above them that uses a projection map to blast transparancy accross the terrain. Then you could move the projection node up and down to render each level.
OK, so my description sucks, but I think it should work. Let me know if you need more help and if I have time I'll put together an example.
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22-07-2004
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I think you do need to make small file demonstarting it - I think I will be ablr to figure it out by looking at the shading networks.
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23-07-2004
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Also, check out "group2" (hide group1). In this case, the 2 place3texture nodes combine to make a box "render zone" if you will.
Hope this helps.