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Hi,

fetch the xml, select the image url and use it in a texture loader. You can select nodes/attributes from the xml using Ventuz xml nodes or you write a little script.

The example shows both - in a very! basic way.

Best,
rou

Hi, yes, I sometimes start a second Ventuz instance. I know, I know. But when I just need to export something and don't want to close my current project, ... you know. Those error messages I get are pretty annoying though. Wouldn't it be possible to bundle them? Tell the user there were errors? Inst...

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Hi Robert, a directional light has no position. The light direction is the same for every vertex, so the position of the element does not make a change. BUT: the direction from the object to the camera matters! The light used in Ventuz has several components. I'll show it to you with a simple scene....

Hi,

Ventuz supports only triangles, so any polygon is triangulated. That's why you get those diagonals. A quad is divided into two triangles.

cheers,
rou

there's always the next job...

Hi, as already pointed out, you need a special geometry for that with the correct UVs. Also the mapping must match your fisheye effect as fisheye is a pretty general word - it mostly means catching an unusually high angle. A special case is a hemisphere map, where you have an angle of 180°. That is ...

Hi,

works for me.

cheers,
rou

For transformations: That is a matrix input. You can connect a matrix from a matrix node (like Scaling) to that input. It will then read "Matrix". If you have no input, you can only select Zero or Identity.

cheers,
rou

Getting the color into the alpha channel is not that easy unless you use a shader. If you load your texture from file: use the image loader and a node called "set alpha mask". Use your image from the image loader as alpha and image source. Convert the resulting image to texture and use it ...