little riddle

[DocCharly65]

Today I saw a bright yellow Fiat 500 (the backpack). Now that would be  nice car to add somewhere....

Funny that you mention, Ulco    I have already placed a Fiat Uno there 
...

Dear Bobby unfortunately I must make you explode probably    In the next render that Fiat will not only be parked partially on the side walk! There will also be a van parking in wrong direction on the wrong side of the street partially on the side walk!    ...  Sorry... small town with it's own rules 

Tonight the render should be finished. Perhaps then I try a panorama view of the complete road. I still have a panorama viewer on my PC.

And on the right side of the toy rabbit I want to add a restored Isetta...

[DocCharly65]

50 hours rendertime... (25 h for each: left and right eye)
The Lincoln is gone and there are 3 unspectacular cars instead.
I couldn't get the fiat dirtier but I like the older but well maintained car it is in the image.
I hope my fantasy-license plates are not too absurd. I did a bit rechereche to find out that the "Konami- Silent Hill" was inspired by Centralia (Pennsylvania).

[attach=1]  and 3D anaglyph: [attach=2]

The foggy version must wait because I want to do some little experiments after I found that nice Isetta:
[attach=3]


First Test with the sperical camera is also done:
[attach=4]

[Hannes]

Looks great! (Although my favourite fleshy model seems to be gone! )
Have you tried to add another (dust- or dirt-) surface layer behind the parts shader (or whatever your cars have)? See attached image.

[Dune]

This is awfully good!

And your fleshy lady is way down the lane, Hannes.

[TheBadger]

Dude looks like a lady.

[bobbystahr]

Love the TG3.3 page on the signage, heh heh heh...drole

[DocCharly65]

Thanks 

Ulco, your Wall and the panorama-animation was such a big inspiration that I remembered an old hobby I had some years ago: Panorama photography by taking 50-90 single photos with my Nikon, stitching them and watching on a panorama viewer
(I used Panorado:  http://www.panorado.com/de/PanoradoJsDemo.php)
So I reinstalled that old software and I played around with my "Silent Hill Suburban Road"...
And today we take a 360° look... I hope it works. I got a little server space from my boss:

http://pdf.effekta.com.de/DownloadsTemp/Online_Viewer/Pano_SHN_150121_001.htm

It's still a very small grainy test though I rendered a 3000x4000 pixel image. I had to use a PC with at least 12GB Ram. 8GB is too small and every try to render ended in a crash. And even this resolution is quite small. at the moment I try a 5000x6667 px render. still works on the 12GB PC    I will try a bigger resolution later.

Unfortunately I can't even upload the jpg because of it's 12 MB size. So I really hope the link works (on my PC in office it does with some browsers). But you need a little patience until the image is loaded into the online viewer.


edit 11:11:
A minute ago I tested with a Microsoft IE (works), Chrome (works), Firefox (doesn's work) - sorry I don't know why...

But imagine the possibilities! In theory I could render an animation, in which you could turn around 360° ... also in stereoscopic 3D... Holodeck, we are coming!!! 

But this will not happen in my life. Until the PC hardware is good enough for rendering such a project affordable... and until there are cheap viewers on TVs or even the PC I will already be sitting in my armchair and enjoy being fed by a nurse (the fleshy one at the busstop, Hannes    )

[bobbystahr]

WOW...this ought to be the default way to view a TG render.....really well done Doc...thanks for posting this

[Hannes]

...I will already be sitting in my armchair and enjoy being fed by a nurse (the fleshy one at the busstop, Hannes    )

I envy you!

Btw I'm using Firefox, and it's working like a charm. Fantastic pano!!!

[TheBadger]

Works on safari. Took a while to load though.

[Dune]

Very nice, Nils. Indeed, Firefox works fine. I wonder how your app works; you say it's one jpg. If I use PTGui to make a web-based html/flash file, the output is 14 small jpg's, which are stitched online. But easy to upload. Can't you use FTP to upload a big file?
The problem is that I can't use the viewer (flash based) offline, due to browser restrictions (?), so for that I use FSPviewer. But that re-renders the image somehow and the sharpness of the original is gone. So I'd really like to find a (free) offline panorama viewer that sees the spherical image straight away... but haven't found one yet.
Renders need to be quite large for a sharp image on a big monitor, mine was 8000x4000. Not so strange if you divide the whole circle in 4 parts of 1920px (my resolution), you're at about 8000 total.
But, why do you have such strange sizes? A panorama image (equirectangular) needs to be 2:1.

[DocCharly65]

Ulco, when the final render is ready I'll upload it on my cloud and offer the link here (MS OneDrive)

For years I didn't do anything about panoramas. As I told I was only inspired by your wall 
And never before I did a real spheric 360° panorama so this one was my first one ever. So I didn't know about the 2:1 size and had to resize the image. The running renderjob is too close to be finished so I will not stop it now only to resize the format 

I wanted to use a viewer that is available for everybody. The online viewing tool from Panorado is the only free one (for non comercial use) I know so I used this. The offline tool from Panorado is not for free and the export only supports CD but not e.g. exe-files.

[Dune]

Thanks, Nils. Also keep in mind that you need the camera angle at 0º.

[DocCharly65]

Thanks, Nils. Also keep in mind that you need the camera angle at 0º.

You're right - I remember the weird results from photographing panoramas if you don't keep the horizon on zero 

A next step with increased quality (I think the link still should work - I only changed the linked image):

http://pdf.effekta.com.de/DownloadsTemp/Online_Viewer/Pano_SHN_150121_001.htm
This is 5000x6000 resized to 5000x10000.
My big i7 is rendering a 6000x12000 now and will be finished about next weekend... 

While waiting I played with my Isetta...

[attach=1]  and the 3D Anaglphic:  [attach=2]

I could cry. after 3 days rendering I found out that there are floating grass instances after repairing the pavement. Not too obvious but I see them... now!...  some more details also don't work as I want but the Isetta looks quite ok for me now.

[inkydigit]

Super cool stuff... Excellent