hi everybody,
Is it possible to show rendering lens effects like Glow on the viewport without having to render to view the effect?
Thanx in advance :wavey:
Bobo made an awesome script called VolumePreview that does what u want check it out http://www.scriptspot.com/bobo/mxs6/VolumePreview/VolumePreview033.zip
Hope it helps
Thanks
Mobeen
WOW! thank you mobeen for the link and BOBO you are an artist, thank you so much for this tool.
Thanks!
Technically, the script still uses the renderer to generate the previews, it is just faster as it is matting out all the geometry automatically and can render at much lower res to give you a quick blend of viewport geometry with rendered effects.
It does not work with all kinds of effects though, for example if an effect is based on the surface color of an object (the glow that you mentioned), it would not work as I am rendering with Matte/Shadow material applied to everything.
The main purpose of this script was to show volumetric effects, the support for things like Lens Flares was secondary…
hi again,
when I read the script I found that it handles the change in the environment, but it does not show it! and it seems that the position of the camera should be fixed to show the effect… it is a very smart script but not very practical, any other solution?
Last year, I presented a dynamically updating version of the script without the need for a camera at the Montreal Game Dev. Summit. I might show it again next Siggraph. Of course, feel free to write your own realtime previewer based on my code
The version that is online requires you to either hit a button to update the current frame or precalculate the whole animation of the current camera (but then you can use the built-in Make Preview and it would add the volumetrics/lens flares to the preview). In both cases, it needs a camera to link to.
Just in case, the VolumePreview web page is here:
http://www.scriptspot.com/bobo/mxs6/VolumePreview/
Thank you BOBO for explaining the script, really nice of you
the thing is I want to give glow to my sun object but I cant render the animation cause Im giving the user some options. when I used your script with a dummy object, I gave it a glow effect and it was low resolution but good enough, but when I start moving the camera the glow moves with it and the dummy is shown, so what is happening exactly?
That is cool, How can I ever Thank you BOBO, ill try it and I hope everything will work out fine… Thanx again
Oh, forgot to ask you if the environment change is handeled?