tcdoe

Well i’ll be darned. didn’t search deep enough. thanks.

Is there an easy way to make an atlas from an image sequence (mp4 or anim-gif either one) that I should know? There’s probably some easy python script or something out there. I searched but didn’t find anything I could easily use… Also, I’m worried that the atlas would be too big. Probably I’ll need at least 400×400 for each image just to make it look photographic very basic and not too pixelly (that’s what I’m using now for anim-gif. So for 36 images which is bare minimum to look decent for one 360 rot, that’s 2400×2400 just for the ugly case. I’d rather have 64 steps but that’s not looking possible.
I have a feeling that just using an mp4 with 64 frames might work, as long as I can set the picture frame to synchronize with animation. Not sure about that yet.
Anyway thanks if you know a video to atlas tool.

Great thanks, I’ll tryout.

note that in your info/manuals it says that point lights do work with shadows. Maybe I misunderstand or missed something.

So just to be sure, in 4.8 or 4.9 point lights DO NOT work with shadows.

Also, I’ve found that ‘enabling screen capture’ in the INIT crashes my brand new android tablet (back to blank). It’s not a giant problem but you’all should know.

Hi,
Unfortunately it did not work. I can’t get shadows. I CAN see some kind of shadow-thing happening. If you rotate the scene (not in Blender, but on the generated webpage) until you are looking top-down, you’ll see some hard-shadows of just the text ‘flashing-by’.

I’ve reduced the number of lights to only three point sources. I tried many permutations such as using spotlight source but nothing changes.

At least now it’s not just a blank page.

I’m guessing there might be some problem with how I’m assigning the Verge light parameters e.g. FOV, near-far, etc.
Please take a look at that (linked below) and see if you find any obvious (to you) mistakes. I’m not sure how to set a FOV for a point light source.

Note again that I’m using 2.9 here but I tried going back to 2.8 and the same thing.

Here is zipped file of my work directory updated: pword is vergeabem02.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CQ52IH40EX6VkdfkFY960_bP2V2uqV0L/view?usp=sharing

If anyone else here in the community wants to download/check it please feel free! but I ask that you don’t distribute. Thx.

Best, T.

Yes thanks, I’ve done that.

The real problem though, is on the client side. I want to be able to refresh/reload new updates minute-by-minute and/or every time the client makes a parameter change submission (e.g. hits the ‘submit’ button). This is for displaying client-specific computational updates calculated by us on the server side (in blender and CGAL).

So killing the cache is a stop-gap option, but obviously terrible.
Thanks again for the info.
T.