OT: another mass rendermap script

["Alexander Hemery" <vortex(at)fhw.gr>]

Hello everyone,

 

I'm attaching this small xsiaddon in case it might come handy to anyone, it's 3 scripts I made to bake occlusion/lightmaps on several buildings we have here, to be used with a multitexturing technique for VR in a dome.

 

VR_Occlusion:

 

This is where you setup your rendermap properties, shader type, autoUV type etc.

It uses the object's surface area to determine the texture size generated, and you have to input some values ..for example..a 512x512 texture will be generated for all objects with surface area from the previous(256x256texture value) up to 1000 and so on.

Before clicking OK and let it run you should click the buttons to freeze transformations,delete materials/rendermaps/UVs.

The "hack ao spdl" button is to adjust the max distance value, since the rendermap uses 0 (infinite) ..as opposed to the shader where you can adjust it. (xsi needs to be restarted after the spdl has been edited for it to have effect)

 

When it's finished you should have the occlusion textures applied on each object and visible in the textured viewport.

 

(Keep in mind all the default values is what works best here for me.. probably won't work for you!)

 

MaxSrfSelect:

 

This just makes a selection depending on the user selected MAX surface area. I use it to select small objects and merge them.

 

 

VR_rename: appends prefix/suffix to all object's names.

 

 

All this is in plain VB and some parts of the script might come handy to someone... For me it's been a great help to look at other's scripts (Ofcourse Bernard has been very helpfull too ..cheers man :)

 

Alex.

 

 

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