New ArtLantis 5 preview!

[Anonymous]

As I mentioned at another forum, last week there was a public presentation of ArtLantis 5 by Gerard (I think) from Abvent at the ArchiCAD University in Nottingham (btw thank you DNC).

The only information you get on the web about this new version of ArtLantis are some pretty sad looking renderings.

Also, with the launch of ArchiCAD 9 and it´s new Lightworks engine, there is a lot of talk about the "new" rendering capabilities of these programs.

I would like to tell something to you guys who didn´t have the previlege (?) of seeing the presentation of ArtLantis 5:

It will blow your hat's off!!!

I, for one, will not loose a second learning to work with Lightworks.
I´ll just sit tight and wait for the release of Abvents new version.

If this subject is something you want to hear about, I´ll do my best to explain what I have seen.

[Rakela Raul]

thank u dwight, time to get on an helicopter
my fault retirado...but to get in line i would like to say that
i do like alantis very much, not because of quality (dwight C4D) but
because i dont have any extra icon i dont need, (same reason i picked ac among a few) and im certain version 5 is a must have for me.
thx again and im out retirado
rrakela

[Anonymous]

oh no...

please stay... i was just asking.

[Anonymous]

Hi..

Where can i get those great onyx 3d trees?

I would like to buy the software. It gives me the possibilitie to make any tree? and it have already some libraries already made??

Where can i get info? i am seeing that i can export them directly to archiCAD...

Maybe is the same philosophy of new art*lantis. Seasonal 3d trees to drag and drop into the scene........I hope i can join those onyx trees to art*lantis 5 library.

regards

[Rakela Raul]

onyx computing 1 617 8763876 www.onyxtree.com
info@onyxtree.com

for some reason i keep using imagecels libs

[Anonymous]

please, can you tell me why?

what do you think about this kind of trees?

regards

[Dwight]

imagecels make nice trees - they are photo-based, but competently trimmed of background color for a minimum of video fringing.

Certainly creating tree bitmaps from Onyx will result in no fringing, but they won't have that photographic look. Excellent for elevation pasting, but not the greatest realism in a photo rendering without a little noise added.

You could apply better materials in ArchiCAD and render that view.... better...

[Anonymous]

Dwight...and what about onyx tree?...

what do you think about? is good? easy of use?

i would like to buy something that can let me make my own trees, in 3d...with nice detail..

thanks

[Dwight]

Absolutely the answer for Mac altho it was said at ACUE last year something called "Botanica" [or something - as I remember] was superior on PC. Look around.

Onyx comes with a great library of real - ie: non archigeometric but accurate organic trees, and you can edit any aspect of the tree or build from scratch.

The attachment shows one of their "Fantastic" trees - what you'd use with ArchiCAD's new Hobbitown library objects - the toadstool being one of them.

To export to ArchiCAD is a bit tricky - the trunk/branches must be imported independant of the foliage as DXF [later combined as one object in ArchiCAD but this is how you keep the materials separately designated] or by using an intermediate file format with other renderers - see file list in the attachment.

The DXF onyx export process can be filtered to eliminate excess polygons. Leaves can be flattened and enlarged - twigs eliminated - all to get the poly count down. All controlled on a sliding scale.

To increase apparent complexity of larger leaf surfaces is easy in LightWorks because of the new eroded transparency material control that make leaf surfaces dapple.

[Dwight]

The onyx export dialog for filtering tree aspects.

[Rakela Raul]

retirado,
dont waste your time creating trees, use prefab trees...but
onyx tree is cute though