Message #2576

From: Roice Nelson <roice3@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [MC4D] artist
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 20:07:26 -0600

:)

I like the idea of a hi-res screen capture feature. Right now, the
textures generated and pasted on the faces are 512x512, but I bet these
could probably safely go up to 2048x2048 for a capture functionality. I
already have code that can save to png, jpg, etc. at larger sizes too.

As an alternative to making the mesh finer, it’s possible to calculate
normals in a way to make lighting appear smooth without increasing the mesh
density. I have a recollection that this was going to be less performant
and more troublesome coding-wise. I remember it was easier to convince
myself the faceted appearance looked cooler :)

Anyway, I started experimenting with trello <https://trello.com/> for
manage tasks. I setup a board for
MagicTile<https://trello.com/board/magictile/50ca4d3a3464e0d154000238>,
and added some other recent requests to it, as well as this one
(here<https://trello.com/c/B6UikLa2>).
I was hoping for a feature voting mechanism, but it looks like people can
vote on items only if added to the project. Maybe it’s overkill to try to
publicly prioritize tasks on a single-dev hobby project anyway.

seeya,
Roice

On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Melinda Green <melinda@superliminal.com>wrote:

> Hey, that’s pretty cool, Ed! Several times when using MT I felt the
> image would look great on one of my walls. Maybe Roice could add a
> simple "high resolution" option which would use higher resolution
> textures and tessellate curved polygons much finer? It would be very
> slow to use in that mode but you could just turn it on and off as needed
> so speed wouldn’t matter much. And while I’m dreaming up more work for
> Roice, there could even be a high-res output command that would output a
> PNG, JPG or other image at say twice the screen resolution. Then I might
> really print some images, especially in 3D.
>
> -Melinda
>
> On 12/22/2012 3:19 AM, Eduard wrote:
> > Hi Roice,
> > I put the nice picture of "MT skew 20 v200" on Facebook and an artist is
> fascinated and wants make a much better rendering if he could have the
> corresponding vrml file. I think that MagicTile doesn’t allow the export of
> the actual picture in a vrml file.
> > Best regards
>
>