[REQ] SU scatter

[solo]

Here is a huge one, I'd expect this to be a commercial plugin if ever made and I'd be first in line to purchase.

Below is a video of Carbon Scatter for Max, Maya and C4D, made by the Vue guys at E-on, I know that all those functionalities are impossible in SU but basic ones like scatter, paint and populate may well be right?

These days most render engines use proxy's so we can now add millions of trees and grass patches, so a good way to distribute them is screaming to be found.

Anyway, ponder it code geeks and watch the video below for inspiration.

Thanks in advance.

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[pilou]

Transformer by Suforyou has yet some functions!

Video

and SU2components always by Suforyou can populate anything on any volumes'faces!
(eg on a tree on sphere3D ) etc...

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[solo]

Pilou, not quite what I had in mind, I want scatter, spread, paint trees where I need them, heck even create a green wall if i please.

[jiminy-billy-bob]

Here is a new plugin I'm working on, called Skatter, which is I think exactly what you're looking for.

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The goal is to be able to render hundreds of thousands of instances, but never generate them in SU, so it remains lightweight.
As you can see in the video, Devin from Chaos Group already made it work in Vray. And Tomasz from Solid Iris is working to make it work in Thea. I'll soon get in touch with other render engines devs to see if they're interested.

The developpement is only at a very early stage, in the final version there will be a lot more features and options.

[Rich O Brien]

@JBB

Easy setup a private beta forum here for you to get some testing going.

Lots of devs use this system and we already have a pool of reliable testers assembled.

Just throwing it out there if or when you need it.

[jiminy-billy-bob]

Rich, thanks for that!
I won't need this until a more advance state, but I'll definitly get back to you in time

[solo]

JBB

You been reading my mind, hell yeah, that is what I'm talking about, let me know when I can start testing.

[jiminy-billy-bob]

You been reading my mind

Well, for my rendering activity, I have similar needs as you

[Pixero]

Yes it looks very good.
I would also like to test this if possible.
One thing, I see you are using Vray proxys.
Please make it so it will work with other renderers too.

[jiminy-billy-bob]

You can feed in any component you want.
The one I use in the video is actually both a Vray proxy and a Thea Proxy. It will be part of a library shipped with the plugin, and it'll be a proxy for all render engines possible.

[duanekemp]

Pete, just gave me the heads up on this post. Thank you Pete. This is exactly what I've been looking for. I've been manually building a proxy replace me model to solve this issue. But, JBB, if it's possible, I would love to test this as well. This looks so promising!

[andybot]

that looks very nice! I've used Compo-spray for a long time, this looks to be a huge workflow changer!

[jiminy-billy-bob]

Please make it so it will work with other renderers too.

Here is how it performs with Thea 1.4. The render starts in a couple of seconds and the render itself took a few minutes with Presto.

Click for higher res.

This is a square surface roughly 130m*130m covered with dense grass.
475'000 instances of this grass patch:

Btw, this is what the model looks like:

Very lightweight, as all this vegetation is generated at render-time.

[massimo]

[JQL]

Please make it so it will work with other renderers too.

Here is how it performs with Thea 1.4. The render starts in a couple of seconds and the render itself took a few minutes with Presto.

This is a square surface roughly 130m*130m covered with dense grass.

Very lightweight, as all this vegetation is generated at render-time.

Bah, too good to be true, you joker

[leminilab]

Please make it so it will work with other renderers too.

Here is how it performs with Thea 1.4. The render starts in a couple of seconds and the render itself took a few minutes with Presto.

This is a square surface roughly 130m*130m covered with dense grass.

Very lightweight, as all this vegetation is generated at render-time.

Bah, too good to be true, you joker

Yea, I think it's bluff too...
Isn't it?
This looks too awesome to be true... Not in 2014...

[jiminy-billy-bob]

Not in 2014...

You're right, it'll be available in 2015

[bsfranza]

so.. whats it with su skatter - alive dead or what

[jiminy-billy-bob]

Very much alive, but not yet ready for public release.
It'll come!

[Bob James]

[bsfranza]

thanks for the info though...

will your skatter plugin work with any renderer availeable or is it somewhat bound to vray?

[jiminy-billy-bob]

For now it works with Vray and Thea. I will work with other render engines developpers to make it work with their product. But for now I can't guaranty anything behond Vray and Thea.
What engine would you like to use with Skatter?

[jiminy-billy-bob]

Here is an updated video preview :

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[solo]

Here is an updated video preview :

Video

So smooth on your system, I have to click, wait, click or it splats on my side

[solo]

Awesome video, this will sell many copies.

That grass proxy is also great, hope you share it at end

[jiminy-billy-bob]

The video is a bit edited to cut waiting times when generating 500'000 instances (otherwise it would be boring to watch), and it fast-forward 2x.
You can disable "Live Preview" when dealing with big numbers of items.

[jiminy-billy-bob]

As a side note, there will also be more speed optimisations.
And I aim for multi-threading one day.

[JQL]

It's looking great! Truly!

[pilou]

Edens Garden!

[DOD3R]

Hi,
Great work!

I had some ideas, so here I am sharing:

1 - I would like to be able to save the scatter setting as a macro( or something ) containing the models and settings for easy reuse and sharing. I imagine myself having few macro packs named grass, forest, crowd, cars on the street. fallen, leaves.

2 - I like camera clipping and distance clipping features, those will be very useful, just make sure that those will reload and recompute between the scenes during the batch render. Without, that this feature will be useless for me.