Artlantis help...perforations & custom 2D entourage??

[Anonymous]

Im trying to get a wall to look perforated with circles like this at a more organic and random pattern...any ideas on how to do this in Artlantis?

Also, Im going for something like these more artistic impression renderings for a scheme proposal, any tips on getting this set up in Artlantis then obviously some major post processing in PS?

And one other thing....how can I make my own 2D people and trees to place in Artlantis, like the ones in this render with the color scheme....

[Anonymous]

another example of what im trying to do...

[Anonymous]

Hi,

You need to use a texture with an alphachannel for the perforations. Then apply that texture to the invisible shader.

To use your own 2d people and trees in Artlantis you need to make a billboard. There is a little piece of software called Billboardbuilder to create billboards. http://www.mirarkitektur.com/mirasoft/BBBuilder The billboards you create with it have a white line around them.

I hope this helps you

Sjaak

[Anonymous]

Ill give BBBuilder a try...are the "white lines" permanent??

Also...I know I should know how to do this by now, but exactly how do you create an alpha channel?

Any other tips on getting renders like these?

Thanks so much!

[Anonymous]

The white lines are unfortunately permanent.

For alphachannels: http://www.artlantisobjects.com/html/alpha_channel_creation.php

For the colorschemes. Experiment with the postprocessing feature in the camera settings dialog. It is the little button with the red/green/blue stripes at the top of the dialog. Mixing another color of light can do things for you.

Sjaak

[Anonymous]

OK so now I have another question...I have about 100 objects in my scene that I just want to merge into one material so that i can easily set their color and transparency, etc without having to set it and copy it to EACH one EVERY time...any way to do this? I try to merge all with same shader but its grayed out...

[Dwight]

Do they have the same material name?

If so, rightclick "apply to all instances" might do it.

[Anonymous]

Heres a snap of part of the list of objects....they all have the same material assigned to them, but applying to all instances only works within each object subset (ie, man_xx or man2_xx)...so editing textures across all the objects takes forever because I have to change each subset everytime, and theres abut 10 or 15 subsets...

I know Ive been able to merge all with same material before, but I dont understand why it wont work here?