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Kel Solaar Moderator Offline Curious Apprentice Posts: 1117	Re: sIBL_GUI For XSI Reply #15 - 09/21/08 at 18:31:38 Quote: I am going to say it once again.... YOU AREEEEE THE MAAAAAAAAN !!! with the singing voice ehehhe Thanks to all HDRILABS team too Yarrrrrr ! :]]]
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keksonja Ex Member	Re: sIBL_GUI For XSI Reply #16 - 09/21/08 at 18:36:46 just one question when i try to send to sofware using remote connection it says Loader script output done! when pressing OK then I get Remote connection Failed on Port : 12288
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Reply #17 - 09/21/08 at 18:41:02

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just one question when i try to send to sofware using remote connection it says Loader script output done! when pressing OK then I get
Remote connection Failed on Port : 12288

It's certainly because the sIBL_GUI_XSI_Server is not started. The first time you install the server Addon you have to manually start the server (it will be automatically started next times you launch XSI). It's located near the others sIBL_GUI menu entries. Let me know if you have any problems, the new server addon should work on 32 and 64 bits XSI.

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keksonja Ex Member	Re: sIBL_GUI For XSI Reply #18 - 09/21/08 at 18:44:44 Hmm strange the server is not appearing in the list? I uninstalled it try again still no server in the list
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keksonja Ex Member	Re: sIBL_GUI For XSI Reply #19 - 09/21/08 at 18:47:40 sorry man my bad i see there are 2 files to be installed
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Kel Solaar Moderator Offline Curious Apprentice Posts: 1117	Re: sIBL_GUI For XSI Reply #20 - 09/21/08 at 18:48:52 Quote: sorry man my bad i see there are 2 files to be installed Hehe yeah no problem I'll try to make it more clear. It's currently not really Tell me it works !!!! ^^
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Kel Solaar Moderator Offline Curious Apprentice Posts: 1117	Re: sIBL_GUI For XSI Reply #21 - 09/30/08 at 23:15:31 Hey o/ I updated sIBL_GUI today, a lot of changes on both sIBL_GUI and the XSI Template. I also did a screencast with the 0.9.5 version : sIBL_GUI For XSI Screencast (55,4 Mo)
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keksonja Ex Member	Re: sIBL_GUI For XSI Reply #22 - 10/09/08 at 11:59:44 Thank you for the great update works like a charm
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keksonja Ex Member	Re: sIBL_GUI For XSI Reply #23 - 10/09/08 at 13:51:32 how hard would it be to add a feature to turn the background primary ray visibility in the GUI options ?
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Reply #24 - 10/09/08 at 21:01:03

Hello Keksonja o/

You would like to have the possibility to directly have your background not displayed in the render ? In fact if you dont check create background in the common attributes, there should not be anything connected into the eye rays slot of the rayswitch, tell me if it works for you ! (btw I just realised that you will not have any texture on the feedback doing like this, I'll correct this in the next realease)

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Reply #25 - 10/11/08 at 08:31:29

Well there is another issue... if you turn off the background by using Create Background False not only that it doesn't create the feedback but most importantly it does not contribute the light to the scene. It disconnects the whole Visible Rays (EYE) hookup....

What I would like to have is the ability to just turn the sIBL_Background_Clip - Intensity - Background from 1 to 0

Leaving everything in the viewport visible but on render time not

Also I see that the sun in most cases is too bright does that have to do with the plug the way it translates the intensity or its just the hdr that needs to be fixed ?

Thanks

P.S. I noticed another thing is that if I turn the feedback to false or off then the lighting contribution changes too. Is this due to rotation changes that is happening or something else? (After some testing I confirm that this has to do with rotation constraint or rotation in y of the sphere when its on and off .... not a big issue)

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Reply #26 - 10/11/08 at 10:35:13

Hey keksonja o/

I just noticed there is a bug yeah when you turn off Create Background, in fact the rayswitch should always use the fg port to provide the lighting and it's currently not the case ( something that I destroyed when I improved the template). I will correct this, it's just a line of code.
The Background texture now stay visible in the viewport. It's more user friendly this way

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The excessive sun brigthness is certainly caused by the physical sun shader option, I need to average it with the classic sun (at leas find about the same intensity output).
I know for the rotation thing, it's an old thing I need to correct !

I will release an improved template really soon (1 hour max) that should correct all this (except maybe the feedback rotation).

See you soon and thank you very much for testing !

Thomas

Edit : Oh and for the sun brightness thing, since it's rendered in linear workflow you should compensate your input colors :

a 0.5 grey should turn into a 0.5*(1/2.2) = 0.22725 one (that may explain why you find the sun really bright)

And for the rotation thing, in fact the script is crashing when you desactivate the feedback creation :| It should be fixed in the new template.

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Kel Solaar Moderator Offline Curious Apprentice Posts: 1117	Re: sIBL_GUI For XSI Reply #27 - 10/11/08 at 10:54:52 Here is the improved/corrected template : http://kelsolaar.hdrlabs.com/sIBL_Framework/XSI/Templates/Nightly/XSI_MentalRay.... Thanks again mate to provide feedback, it's only this way we can improve the stuff :] Thomas
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Reply #28 - 10/13/08 at 15:05:44

From quick testing it works fine... well the script never crashed for me even with that create feedback option... i just noticed that the rotation changes but that is not a big deal like you said its always nice to have feedback and I agree.

As I work with the plug if I notice something else I will let you know.

Thanks for your great work ! Grin

Also the sun option maybe comes form the multiplier but its not a big deal i just take it down manually its fine

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Reply #29 - 10/13/08 at 16:08:03

Hi :]

The feedback should not rotate anymore I think ( I didnt double checked but it seems to me that after correcting the bugs, the behavior was correct). I will certainly add a new option where the template will try to update the scene more than a full clean/deletion each time. For your sun intensity you can maybe calm it down in the sIBL file directly so you don't have the problem each time (you have a shortcut directly to sIBLedit in sIBL_GUI).

Thanks for your feedback !

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