Snarlygribbly's blog

With the release of Pose2Lux Pro v0.7.2 I'm happy that good progress has been made, and I'm going to take some time off from coding now to do other things. It won't be a complete break - I still want to add in support for volumes in the basic material editor - but my attention will now shift to other things for a while.

I'd like to actually *use* Pose2Lux to make some renders, for a start. I suspect that if I spend a few hours trying to make some pictures with it I'll get a better idea of how well suited the user interface is for its purpose!

I'd like to update the user guide to reflect the major changes that were made to Pose2Lux in the v0.7+ updates, but when I look at my diary it's pretty obvious that it won't get done until October!

Cheers,
Snarly

Pose2Lux now appears as a recognised plugin on the Luxrender home page 

I've fallen into the habit of checking this site and the two Renderosity forums relating to Pose2Lux each day, as well as checking the Renderosity gallery for any new pictures made with Pose2Lux's help.

As far as I can see, there's been nothing posted for quite a while: no renders, no questions, no suggestions ... zilch! It's almost becoming embarrassing that the Renderosity threads are 'stickied'.

It's clear that the initial excitement over a working exporter has diminished considerably, which I suppose is to be expected. Either that or I've screwed up badly with the exporter and no-one can get it to work :-)

Anyway, today I'm feeling singularly unmotivated to bother with any more coding. I've just added a couple of useful features (support for multiple volumes and the facility to export a separate materials file) which will be in v0.5.1 (to be made available very soon) and it seems to me that it's now a fully-featured exporter that can probably be left as it is for a while. Until I get around to adding a built-in material editor (planned for June/July), it seems adding anything else is just 'tinkering'.

Do you guys spend much time on 3D stuff when the weather's fine? I find it really difficult to concentrate on anything involving the computer when the sun comes out! Where I live, on the north coast of Devon in England, we don't get many truly glorious sunny days but there's been a few over the last week and I just can't make myself stay inside and do any work, especially programming 

For me, 3D art or programming is a Winter endeavour anyway: I get far too busy with work during the Summer season to be able to find much time for it (or anything else really!). And if I do get some free time I want to be outside, not inside in my cave!

Anyway, as a result of the fine weather my American friends have obviously tired of and sent across the Atlantic to me, Pose2Lux has gone on a bit of a hiatus.

It's a good thing really, though. It's important right now to let v0.4.x settle down and be as stable and reliable as it can be. I want it to be bug free before I start on the next big development (built in material editor). The material editor is quite a daunting exercise. I don't think it'll be difficult to program, but it's going to take a lot of code, perhaps as much again as is already in Pose2Lux.

... comes version 0.3.6, with support for volumetric atmosphere effects. Fog and mist are now easily achieved, as are light beams in dusty rooms etc.

The code affects lots of different parts of Pose2Lux: cameras, lights, emitters and so on so I'm trying to be extra careful before uploading this update. I don't want to break anything that was already working!

Still, it should be available some time today :-)