Hi,
- can someone tell me if there is a way to texture
an object with a gradient, am I missing an external or function in GEM. Of course, I could use a picture but I like the procedural way ;-)
I don't have a working GEM right here, but I remember vaguely that there was a colorSquare object that gives you a square with nice colour gradients.
- When I set the gemhead to less than 0 it ignores
the view changes... Cool (I like that feature)
this feature is mentioned in the gemhead help patch :-)
but..... I'd love to exclude the lighting also. Do you see any way to do that on a chosen gemhead (ie -1)?
I don't think that this is possible - lighting works globally.
Now to my experience with pix_write. As hinted (thanx to the list) I tryed to grab single pictures, then combining it to a movie. But the framerate is unacceptable (sound is eaven worse). I think my machine is fast enouth but then again, you never know. Could there be a way to export the gemwin to the firewire port (I'd love that) or can I export the whole gemwin through Network (ie netsend) to a client patch on another computer?
pix_write worked fine for me, both with win and linux (p4, 2.6ghz, geforce 5700). maybe you should try to let it write uncompressed tiff images, which is much faster than jpegs (or was it the other way round? again sorry, i cannot test this at the moment ...) james tittle made an object that exports the contents of the gem win as a movie file. this is using quicktime and is only in the cvs at the moment, i'm about to try to comppile this for win. another option would be to grab the gemwin with a dv camera hooked up to the s-video output of your gfx card. just tell gem to render to the appropriate screen, and you should be set. you could even hook up this dv cam to a firewire port and capture the output directly with whatever tool you're using for this ... this involves unneccesary conversion from digital to analogue and back again, but it works. regarding the export of render chains to a different computer: johannes pointed out that this is possible, but i have no experience in this respect.
hope this helps, thoralf.
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