Turin - Before the city
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Hi veryone,
here's some screenshot of our last project, a video concerning Turin area evolution during last 2 million years, using real world elevation maps etc.
Everything is rendered in real-time using our previs software MESH, then post-produced for the final video, a 12 camera (360 degrees split) visualization.
The final video was good but later we developed more post processing filters and shaders, so we updated the project and took some screenshot that I post here: real-time renders only, no post production.
Software used: MESH, Maya, WorldMachine, Photoshop and GIMP, VueInfinite (for skyboxes only).
MESH uses OGRE as internal rendering engine along with custom developed shaders and production pipeline.
http://vimeo.com/asalab
http://www.edu.vrmmp.it/mesh/
here's some screenshot of our last project, a video concerning Turin area evolution during last 2 million years, using real world elevation maps etc.
Everything is rendered in real-time using our previs software MESH, then post-produced for the final video, a 12 camera (360 degrees split) visualization.
The final video was good but later we developed more post processing filters and shaders, so we updated the project and took some screenshot that I post here: real-time renders only, no post production.
Software used: MESH, Maya, WorldMachine, Photoshop and GIMP, VueInfinite (for skyboxes only).
MESH uses OGRE as internal rendering engine along with custom developed shaders and production pipeline.
http://vimeo.com/asalab
http://www.edu.vrmmp.it/mesh/
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cheers
We do use OGRE, but we developed custom shaders and production pipeline based on Maya.
Everything is real-time, lighting is interactive, no global illumination tricks for now, just direct lighting and some ambient occlusion maps.
And a lot of real time post processing too
Also great to see Torino (being my city) in a documentary and in cg too !
I've worked with real terrains too a few times (though on a much smaller / simpler scale ) It must have been quite a task ! realworld terrain data and realtime 3d don't go together easily !
Thank you Nizu, the workflow between ArcGis / DEM elevation files and WorldMachine was quite easy, the real fun was working with geologists to argue how to de-erode the present terrains to obtain terrains of 500k years ago.
We then exported from WorldMachine hi-res height maps (8k),along with several hi-res textures. Then we started painting terrain splats and testing them in Maya, using real-time splatting cg shaders, on a lowpoly mesh.
Then imported everything in our tool , MESH, to light, animate and post process everything.
If you come from Turin, you can see the 12 screens video in Palazzo Madama exhibition!
I haven't been to the exhibition yet but i'm going to soon, must be impressive on a panoramic screen, and at OGR must be interesting too , i've seen the previz. video on your Vimeo page , great stuff .
We'll have a workshop at View conference with TopIX, I think we'll meet there!
Davide