I spotted a similar technique a while ago - we were doing one of those
crazy map-zoom type jobs and wondered if there was a way of using vector
graphics at rendertime. I spotted a paper written at Bournemouth Uni,
they had developed a renderman shader that takes a vector image as an input.
http://www.dctsystems.co.uk/Text/haddon.pdf
The job we were doing was very quick, so raster images were used instead.
JD
phil harbath wrote:
> But they (combustion file) are converted to a bitmap, right, limited
> to the
> the layer dimenstions inside combustion. Basically we are talking
> about a .ai to raster importer.
>
> Phil.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stefan Kubicek"
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> Subject: Re: Illustrator files as textures...
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>> 3dsMax has this, it reads combution files, which can contain vector
>> graphics,
>> but I must admit I rarely used it.
>>
>>
>>> On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Ponthieux, Joey wrote:
>>>
>>>> I can see this as being an incredible benefit for logo textures,
>>>> stripe decals, or any kind of simple or flat vector art decal, but
>>>> I definitely don't see this is a means of replacing bitmaps in any
>>>> big way. The source texture itself will have to be very conducive
>>>> to this use, but you'll never want to use an illustrator file to
>>>> texture the landscape of Mars. It's not going to improve matters
>>>> for this kind of texturing at all. Unless I miss the point of the
>>>> integration. From the article I take it to mean that Illustrator
>>>> files can be used a a texture source natively within Mental Ray. Or
>>>> are they saying that Mental Ray will render Illustrator files to a
>>>> bitmap? At which point, if that is the case, I do have to wonder
>>>> what is the point of that?
>>>
>>> While I have not tried this, I have long wanted an AI file reader
>>> for 3D apps. Imagine making a bump map that would hold up no matter
>>> how close you got to it (like a procedural). Logos, and such as
>>> well, of course.
>>>
>>> I think that if the tool supports modern AI gradients (which I am
>>> guessing it does not, but I have not tried it) then you *could* use
>>> it to texture Mars, and for lots of other things. Ideally you could
>>> blur the output from the AI file and whatnot.
>>>
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