c_ridley was very kind and offered me the files for creating custom contexts in 3dvia Studio! So here are some of mine!
http://www.3dvia.com/scenes/629016586A7C4E60/tomy-s-my-first-scenes-custom-context - Just a test to see if it worked. A red box, on which I set the Local Scale 10x too large by accident.
http://www.3dvia.com/scenes/9200E5889AACBE90/sabal-reflex - test with placing an Avatar on the second floor, I finally realize that adding Ambient Light is typical
http://www.3dvia.com/scenes/5E93125466784A5C/perecat1-s-context - a context dedicated to the user perecat1 - it's mostly his content!
http://www.3dvia.com/scenes/822FF5B88A9CAE80/tomy-s-night-context - kind of like Grassy Field at night, I learned that when making skydomes it's good to cover the bottom up
http://www.3dvia.com/scenes/128266081A2C3E10/tomy-s-planet-context - finally getting the hang of it, this is a planet similar to Mars, I realize that the units for Local Position is in metres
And that's what I have so far! Which one is your favourite!
My Custom Contexts for Scenes
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Posted 9 months ago #
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Thats awesome Tomy!
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Which is better for scenes: skydome or skybox? I've been using domes...
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I can't remember if I've tried to do a skybox in Studio, my brain is fried! I'll try it tomorrow morning and let you know
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Sometimes I'll wonder why it seems you guys wake up so early, but really it's the timezone - I live in Daylight Mountain time. If only that and Greenwhich/UTC time were switched around so times in PHP and Javascript would make a lot more sense.
It bugs me a little that 3dvia Studio minutes were never finished - I was planning on really learning how to do Studio that way. I can never remember if the key to zoom on a model is Ctrl+Z or just Z either, but when I do the wrong one it deletes the model or something and I can't undo it.
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Yeah that was a successful series, we had a contractor at the time, the Mighty Tim, that was doing a bang up job on those, but unfortunately the contract was able to be renewed at the time.
As for zooming in on an object, it is Z, Derived from 3D Studio Max navigation I think. Always remember ctrl z is undo is most applications so I never use it.
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Once I was creating a July the 1st scene (in Canada, it's the 1st, not the 4th) when I realized it wasn't dark enough to use Fireworks... the smart object I had planned to use. I tried creating a model with a dark skydome, but the lighting was wrong, and scenes was having autosave problems, and the model wasn't the right size. So, I created the night one. It's basically Grassy Field at night with trees. As for the z-fighting with the trees - I know it's there, but in Shape it wasn't. It's because they are only 1 mm apart, so they shouldn't z-fight, but the distance puts them together. If the avatar walks close to the trees, the z-fighting stops.
And thanks for complimenting my red planet! I was thinking "Since scene contexts are generally landscapes, I should create landscapes users can use, so that they have more freedom of what models they want to add to it. But what landscape wasn't already created? Grassy Fields, Snow Lands, Desert had all been taken." While thinking about it, I realized that all the easy landscapes to create... not a jungle or something with trees and stuff in it - had been taken. So if all the landscape on Earth had been taken, I needed one that wasn't on Earth - like a planet! And that's how I got the idea.Posted 9 months ago #
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