solid ebony number 112 by ohio tools

asparade

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hi, i'll try making this one:
http://www.jimbodetools.com/The-Tool-Find-of-the-Century-Solid-Ebony-Number-112-Center-Wheel-Plow-Plane-by-OHIO-TOOL-CO-One-of-Three-Known-p36059.html

did the base mesh:


next step:
sculpting the details and texturing the albedo in mari with ptex, making the low, baking the NM, and transfering the maps onto the low.
let's see if it works as supposed  

asparade

@AlecMoody
i tried the baker, wow this is a fast one O.O 
it's a little bit annoying, when you try to find the right ray-offset on the first page, to always switch to the third one to press the bake-button. it would be better to have a fixed positioned bake-button. 
is there a possibility for an object-id pass? maybe this one makes no sense, because of the material-id.. time will tell.
what i like is, that i just have to replace the low and high models in my folder and press the bake button
nice work!

asparade

btw get this crash when i try to load a project, highpoly-model, etc..., after restarting handplane:

asparade

i get this crash every time i try to load something into handplane. every other button works fine. so at the moment i can't use handplane any more have restarted the workstation already.

AlecMoody

Can you pack up your high and low models along with a project file and email it to me? alecmoody@gmail.com


Also, can you clarify the exact steps to reproduce the crash?

asparade

there are no low models, did just a little test, to see how it works. closed it.
after a while i wanted to do a second test and then suddenly it began to crash.

open handplane click on load project > crash
open handplane click on highpoly model > crash

has something to do with the explorer and handplane.. and a global windows prolem maybe.. i'm working on win7

AlecMoody

Does restarting the machine fix it? I haven't run into this or had the issue reported before. Maybe a clean install of handplane?

asparade

already did this.  looking for a global fix. shall i send you the crash.dmp file ?

AlecMoody

Yeah, email me the crash dump. To clarify, the tool no longer works for you at all? Do you have to load the project file in order to trigger the bug? If so, please send over the hpb as well.

asparade

email sent.
yes, it stopped working for me, i can open it, but when i try to load something it crashes.
i think it crashes, when it has to open the explorer ...  
time for bed and maybe tomorrow it will work again

AlecMoody

I'm not able to reproduce this. Let me know if these steps are correct. I am loading your hpb file, then adding and removing models from the projection group:



Also, a few notes from looking at your HPB file. Assuming a ray offeset of 0.01 is close to correct, it would appear your model is really really small.  How many units across is the plane? You are likely to run into precision issues in the baker if the model is actually that small. We are planning to add either a global scale factor or perhaps increase precision to handle those situations.
Also, I saw on your output tab you were baking to 256 resolution. There isn't really a need to bake this small, a 1024 ought to take nearly the same amount of time and provide more useful test bake info.

asparade

i can't even load anything into handplane, because it crashes before that, although i can open it. i think it's a windows problem, at least it worked the first time

i have to look how big my object is, always forgetting about that
i was baking a screw and looking how it bakes, that's why i tested all sizes including 256 and yes 4k is as fast as the 256, just a little bit slower.

asparade

did a clean install, updated display-drivers no win7 updates available, rebooted everything. still not working .. shit

asparade

lol ... i renamed the handplane.exe to handplane1.exe and it stopped chrashing .. worked with it .. closed it
opened it again and it started crashing again ... renamed it to handplane2.exe .. and it startet working again .. it tells me not to close it again

neverless a little progress.
maya viewport.
i baked unity normal maps, they look right.

AlecMoody

I think your antivirus is causing these problems. What antivirus software are you running?

asparade

bitdefender, and yes when i deactivate it, handplane works again .. thanks

AlecMoody

I will look into why bitdefender doesn't like handplane on your machine. Up until a few weeks ago, I was running bitdefender on my workstation and I never had issues.

asparade

thank you, it's a little bit odd. i have to deactivate bitdefender to use handplane, just putting the *.exe into exclusion in bitdefender doesn't help.

asparade

there is strange baking-behavior:

asparade

in the projectionsgroup it would be nice if it was possible to edit the high-poly/low-poly model paths by text, at the moment you have to delete a path and then add it again, or at least change a path again. 

here is some progress, in the end it's all about materials :

AlecMoody

Can you see if adding a bitdefender exclusion fixes the problem for?
http://www.bitdefender.com/support/how-to-add-exclusions-(exceptions)-in-bitdefender-2016-1467.html

asparade

juhu, this worked now! great, thank you!

AlecMoody

Awesome. I will do some research and see what we can do to avoid getting flagged by bitdefender. 

asparade

would be interesting, what causes this.

little bit more material work and placing:

Takai

Nioce, looking great so far dude!

AlecMoody

asparade said:

there is strange baking-behavior:

What tangent space are you using? Also, can you send me the low/high for the screw and I can see what is happening?

asparade

@Takai
thanks, i'll rest it for some time now and then back again

@AlecMoody
i sent you a zipped folder with all files. 
inside handplane i first tried the maya2013/14 settings but the unity settings gave me the better result.
only this screw didn't work as supposed.