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Sharp edges and smooth shading normals in Massive

Posted on August 20, 2012 by sitexgraphics

The Problem A user wants to import an object with both sharp edges and smooth edges into Massive for rendering with Air.   This should be easy except that Massive only allows one shading normal per vertex, and Massive automatically smooths … Continue reading →

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Adding a background plate to a Massive crowd rendering

Posted on July 9, 2012 by sitexgraphics

A user recently asked how to render a preview image with Air from Massive that included a background plate.   The Massive camera node includes an option to specify a background image, but that setting is not exported to rib for … Continue reading →

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Animated Ocean Waves

Posted on June 1, 2012 by sitexgraphics

Air 11.08 and later includes a new set of shaders for rendering animated ocean waves based on Jerry Tessendorf’s paper “Simulating Ocean Water”.  The shaders are: OceanWaves – displacement shader for the waves OceanSurface – surface shader for deep ocean … Continue reading →

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