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K-3D Forums » Recent Topics http://www.k-3d.org/forums/ Seven Degrees of Freedom en-US Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:32:34 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 <![CDATA[Search]]> q http://www.k-3d.org/forums/search.php artao on "K-3D will only render with bundled Aqsis" http://www.k-3d.org/forums/topic/k-3d-will-only-render-with-bundled-aqsis#post-3283 Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:49:43 +0000 artao 3283@http://www.k-3d.org/forums/ Hey there. First off, let me say I very much like K-3D, particularly for it's renderman integration. I'm primarily a Blender user, but for years and years have wanted to and repeatedly tried to learn how to use renderman, with little success. Anyhow, my problem is this. K-3D (v0.7.11.0) installed fine (win xp sp3), as did Aqsis (v1.6.0). I can render using Aqsis from the command line just fine. However, when I set Aqsis as my renderman engine in K-3D, I get nothing when I press preview or render, although it doesn't complain about not being able to find it. However, it works just fine if I set the renderman engine to BundledAqsis. Curious, as past builds I tried worked fine with the separate install of Aqsis. Am I doing something wrong? I can find nowhere in K-3D to set any further parameters regarding this. Thank you in advance. I'm sure I'm just missing something. gilberto on "Help installation program" http://www.k-3d.org/forums/topic/help-installation-program#post-3301 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:16:48 +0000 gilberto 3301@http://www.k-3d.org/forums/ Caught unknow exception: this mensage to open program,what? Igor Bartak on "How to add keyframe to the animation" http://www.k-3d.org/forums/topic/how-to-add-keyframe-to-the-animation#post-3271 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:09:29 +0000 Igor Bartak 3271@http://www.k-3d.org/forums/ I have a problem with Animation Timeline. I watched this video: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXsBrNdN5cI" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXsBrNdN5cI</a> All is ok, but with giving arrows (or black points - I think it are keyframes) on the blue animation timeline, I have a problem. I don't know how to denote keyframes. With mouse it doesn't go. I tried maybe all keys, but nothing doesn't give me there black arrows on the timeline. Have a nice day! Rhyous on "Need Updated Port for FreeBSD 8" http://www.k-3d.org/forums/topic/updated-port-for-freebsd-8#post-2821 Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:40:35 +0000 Rhyous 2821@http://www.k-3d.org/forums/ Hey all, I am trying to get an updated port for K-3D on FreeBSD 8. Since the K-3D maybe don't manage this but someone at FreeBSD should, I started a thread on the FreeBSD forums. <a href="http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=63896" rel="nofollow">http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=63896</a> Lets see what happens. Igor Bartak on "image instead material" http://www.k-3d.org/forums/topic/image-instead-material#post-3241 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:48:43 +0000 Igor Bartak 3241@http://www.k-3d.org/forums/ Hello. I would like to ask, how can I use some image(for example my photo) like a material(texture) on some K-3D object? Is it possible in K-3D? Thanks... andnord on "How to make legs for a computer circuits?" http://www.k-3d.org/forums/topic/how-to-make-legs-for-a-computer-circuits#post-3247 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:57:31 +0000 andnord 3247@http://www.k-3d.org/forums/ Hello, my name is Andreas and I am new here. I installed K-3D on my Linux Ubuntu today becaus I want to learn how to make good 3D animations. I beginned to try to make a simple computer circuits. You can find out from this link how a circuits look like <a href="http://www.solarbotics.com/assets/images/atmega8l/atmega8l_pl.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.solarbotics.com/assets/images/atmega8l/atmega8l_pl.jpg</a> As you can see. It is a board with legs. The problem for me it is to make these legs. How do to that? I did the board by create a simple polygonal cube and changed it to good size so it look like a board. But how to do the legs? Can I add lines or how should I do? Andreas Igor Bartak on "Simple question on Fullscreen" http://www.k-3d.org/forums/topic/simple-question-on-fullscreen#post-3223 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:47:49 +0000 Igor Bartak 3223@http://www.k-3d.org/forums/ Hi people. Can somebody tell me how can I switch the Viewport scene to fullscreen. What type of keyboard shortcut should I use? Timothy Shead on "Import graphic files" http://www.k-3d.org/forums/topic/import-graphic-files#post-2019 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:33:55 +0000 Timothy Shead 2019@http://www.k-3d.org/forums/ This message was originally posted by Nobody/Anonymous on 02/05/2007 10:13:27 As I am new to K-3D I viewed that this is a very advanced program with lots of possibilities, but I wonder if it is possible to import graphic 2D-files like TIFF, JPEG, PNG or SVG or DWG -- these files not being present in the importer-plugin. I would like to use K-3D to base 3D-models on already made 2D-plans. How to achieve this? Thanx, Jan. Timothy Shead on "Forum Spam Cleanup" http://www.k-3d.org/forums/topic/forum-spam-cleanup#post-3205 Sun, 21 Feb 2010 10:46:43 +0000 Timothy Shead 3205@http://www.k-3d.org/forums/ Folks: Although our administrative controls have done a reasonable job of keeping spam out of the forums, we have been collecting a ridiculous (600-and-rapidly-growing) number of users that are obviously bots. To address this, we've enabled reCAPTCHA for user registration, and deleted any existing forum user accounts with zero posts. Apologies to any legitimate users who had their accounts deleted, this shouldn't happen again. Cheers, Tim 71GA on "How to add reference image to viewport." http://www.k-3d.org/forums/topic/how-to-add-reference-image-to-viewport#post-3157 Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:07:33 +0000 71GA 3157@http://www.k-3d.org/forums/ Hello i am new here. I wonder if i have to attach reference image to viewplane or camera? Can someone tell me how can i add reference image to viewport or camera maybee? Thank you! raffaele on "measures labels on the draw like Rhino and Autocad?" http://www.k-3d.org/forums/topic/measures-labels-on-the-draw-like-rhino-and-autocad#post-3121 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 04:04:37 +0000 raffaele 3121@http://www.k-3d.org/forums/ I am a user of Rhino and Autocad, but I find 3-kd extraordinary. I need to label the draw with measures (length, thickness, width), so mechanics or wood worker can see the draw with the measures and make what I design. Is there this command in k-3d? thanks Guess82 on "Sphera moviment" http://www.k-3d.org/forums/topic/sphera-moviment#post-3109 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:22:15 +0000 Guess82 3109@http://www.k-3d.org/forums/ Hello, I just arrived on K-3D. To start, I did not find any example in this regard, I would move a sphere on a plane maybe doing some follow this path. someone tell me if there is any tutorial or knows give me some advice? thanks bartman2589 on "K-3D Main site acting weird!!" http://www.k-3d.org/forums/topic/k-3d-main-site-acting-weird#post-2929 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:53:25 +0000 bartman2589 2929@http://www.k-3d.org/forums/ When I type the address <a href="http://www.k-3d.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.k-3d.org</a> into my web browser I get prompted to save a file with the name 'k-3d_org' (I didn't save it though) additionally when I managed to find my way to the wiki (via a link from another site) the 'download' link misbehaved too and prompted me to save a file named 'downloads' when I opened this file it contained the following information: ------------Contents of 'Downloads' file----------------- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-US" lang="en-US"> ... </html> ----------------------End Contents of 'downloads' file------------------------ Hopefully this will help someone to correct the errors with the site so that everything works properly again! In the mean time can someone post a functional link to the 32 bit Windows version of K-3D? Thanks, bartman2589 Prolect on "Help?!" http://www.k-3d.org/forums/topic/help#post-2803 Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:14:22 +0000 Prolect 2803@http://www.k-3d.org/forums/ I can't seem to install this! I try to drag it into applications.. Everything goes great, but when I open it, it automatically crashes! I am a mac OS X software please help me. I need this for my game company. mleeroberts on "Duplicate object not rendering" http://www.k-3d.org/forums/topic/duplicate-object-not-rendering#post-2785 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:57:44 +0000 mleeroberts 2785@http://www.k-3d.org/forums/ I am currently running .0.7.6 and am having trouble when I duplicate an object (cube or whatever) and then move it. I can see it in the preview, but not rendered. I have revereted back to 0.6.6 and it works fine, but need the features in 0.7.6. Any ideas are welcome? kigoobe on "Photo to 3d" http://www.k-3d.org/forums/topic/photo-to-3d#post-2755 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:19:37 +0000 kigoobe 2755@http://www.k-3d.org/forums/ Hi guys I am new to the world of 3D. I was looking for a software that can help me to get realistic 3D images from photo. Something that will execute fast, and where I can then edit the 3D image. Can K-3D do this, or probably there is a better solution? Thanks for your help guys. kursad on "K-3D 0.7 for Ubuntu" http://www.k-3d.org/forums/topic/k-3d-07-for-ubuntu#post-2775 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:44:42 +0000 kursad 2775@http://www.k-3d.org/forums/ Hi I want to install the latest version from the Ubuntu repo but I see that the latest version that is available from Ubuntu is 0.6.7. Is there a plan to provide v 0.7 in the repo ? thanks kazade on "Loads of questions..." http://www.k-3d.org/forums/topic/loads-of-questions#post-2769 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:50:23 +0000 kazade 2769@http://www.k-3d.org/forums/ Hi all, So, I've recently been trying to find a 3D modeller for a game I'm writing and K3D seems perfect. Within minutes I managed to create a suitable test scene for my game. However I'm totally stuck now. Firstly, how am I supposed to export the entire scene as *.obj (not a single object, but everything as one obj file)? It seems to me that you need an *.obj exporter (rather than a mesh writer) is this included in 0.7? (I'm running 0.6.7) I saw this was actually part of a GSOC project. After I couldn't export the scene as an obj, I decided to try and group the objects into a single mesh... but I can't figure that out either (and it wouldn't be ideal if I did to be honest). I also want to be able to texture my scene, but I can't understand how to do that as well - I've seen there is one texture tutorial but that says that the menu doesn't exist any more and is outdated. The lack of K3D documentation is incredibly frustrating, am I missing something? Is there some manual somewhere I haven't found? Kronoes on "Tube Meshes ,Slicing in degrees or percents, and Splines" http://www.k-3d.org/forums/topic/tube-meshes-slicing-in-degrees-or-percents-and-splines#post-2759 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:18:45 +0000 Kronoes 2759@http://www.k-3d.org/forums/ It would be nice to have a Tube Polygonal/Primitive. Also to have a slice Node Properties/plugin for all the Polygonal/Primitives. gmax has this, it's a good way to make cutaways of electric motors. Say you want to make a turbine and cut it in half without the cut being permanent. You can do this in gmax and after you are satisfied you make the mesh(Polygonal/Primitive) editable. You could do this with buildings and all kinds of things. When I design I usually never make the mesh(Polygonal/Primitive) editable, I save it under a different name, (exp: e for editable and u for uneditable. Twist and Rotation would be good Node Properties/plugin for Toruses as well as for the other Polygonal/Primitives. Splines simulate wires really well and thats in gmax too. You can use splines to create the thread of a screw bolt or nut, springs, and wires for electronics and for coils. Kronoes on "realtime coordinate system in 3D view and dimensions of Primitive in 2D/3D view" http://www.k-3d.org/forums/topic/realtime-coordinate-system-in-3d-view-and-dimensions-of-primitive-in-2d3d-view#post-2761 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 03:13:57 +0000 Kronoes 2761@http://www.k-3d.org/forums/ It would also be nice to have a realtime coordinate system (like a ruler anchored to the editors grid) similar to Id Software's QuakeED or QeRadiant (now called GtkRadiant) 3D editor as well as have size in units-of-measure of the Polygonal/Primitive displayed with square dimension symbols or lines. The realtime coordinate system would help when using the 3d viewing windows so if you move to far and loose your place you can use the coordinates to find your way back to the model. GtkRadiant Tutorial Firstroom part 1 - 1min 20sec you should to what I mean by a realtime coordinate system <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx07GYyGAHc" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx07GYyGAHc</a> GTK Radiant First Room - 5sec you should see the Polygonal/Primitive displayed with square dimension symbols or lines and numbers - I know the view is blurry but it's the only one I could find at the time: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJI71pYvKDg" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJI71pYvKDg</a> whale on "Yafray Xml And Python Scripting" http://www.k-3d.org/forums/topic/yafray-xml-and-python-scripting#post-2731 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:21:00 +0000 whale 2731@http://www.k-3d.org/forums/ hi there. i noticed that when i render a preview in k3d the output is stored in /tmp, in particular the yafray 'world.xml' file is stored there. 1. is there a way i could get k3d to send that file to an external executable ? 2. if not is there a way i could retrieve the same rendering information another way? (python script?) 3. can anyone point me in the direction of a mirror of k3d's python api, <a href="http://www.k-3d.com/docs/epydoc" rel="nofollow">http://www.k-3d.com/docs/epydoc</a> <-- this one appears to be down LevelFour on "K-3D + VTK/Titan" http://www.k-3d.org/forums/topic/k-3d-vtktitan#post-2715 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:15:43 +0000 LevelFour 2715@http://www.k-3d.org/forums/ Continuing the exploration of possibilities for K-3D to be used as platform for invfovis modeling and story telling, I was wondering if there would be any insights about the possibility of building a bridge between K-3d and VTK/Titan. Basically, we are focusing our project in two parts: 1.) Data to Model (preparing data to be seen) 2.) Model to Render (viewing data with visual properties) Clearly the K-3D sdk is a perfect fit for the model-to-render aspect. For the data-to-model focus we are considering the VTK/Titan api. In this case the idea would be to "bridge" the apis through the pipeline and interface. Any brainstorming thoughts on the subject? Much appreciated! JB jamesL on "OgreXmlMeshWriter ??" http://www.k-3d.org/forums/topic/ogrexmlmeshwriter#post-2723 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:35:06 +0000 jamesL 2723@http://www.k-3d.org/forums/ total noob here heard about this software from the ogre 3d forums searched the k-3d wiki and read this is should be able to export to ogre mesh files, at least that's what I think an an exporter plugin would do <a href="http://www.k-3d.org/wiki/OgreXmlMeshWriter" rel="nofollow">http://www.k-3d.org/wiki/OgreXmlMeshWriter</a> but I obviously don't know what I'm talking about because when I create even a simple cube and select file -> export, there is no ogrexml option available; only .k3d, .gts and .raw so what am I missing ? LevelFour on "Node-Link Approach for Procedural Modelling: Information Visualization" http://www.k-3d.org/forums/topic/node-link-approach-for-procedural-modelling-information-visualization#post-2699 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:11:28 +0000 LevelFour 2699@http://www.k-3d.org/forums/ Greetings, We are considering to dedicate a significant development initiative to create an extensive data visualization plug-in using K3D as the platform (also considering Blender). The objective is to establish a logic chain where data sets and specialized methods (graph layout, cartographic projections, charting patterns, etc.) are applied to render complex information visualization scenes. Our goal is to create a suite of python methods which can be chained together as a procedural model using a node-link approach. Based on our evaluation it is not clear to what extent the K3D interface is extensible for this purpose. Although it is very clear the Visualization Pipeline architecture is exactly suited to the goal. We'd be grateful if someone can explain the suitability of implementing a node-link approach which can establish a basic scene (generated from data) with property injection via node links to set the position, size, shape, material of a given object. The requirement would be to enhance the current connection interface provided in the node property editor, to be a more visual node-link diagram similar to the Blender node-link editor. The concept use case would be: user selects composition nodes such as CSV import, assign variables, set primitives, and links operator nodes to apply visual properties based on the variables, e.g. spheres are positioned, sized, and colored based on a data value. We'd very much appreciate any brainstorming on the approach as if it appears feasible, we would very much look forward to contributing our open source project back to the K3D community. Cheers, JB cayres on "Units of Measurement" http://www.k-3d.org/forums/topic/units-of-measurement#post-2707 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:09:02 +0000 cayres 2707@http://www.k-3d.org/forums/ I used the search function and searched google but couldn't find the answer I'm looking for. Can you change the measurement units from meters to feet? I'm wanting to use K-3D to design small construction projects and I need accurate Standard measurements. Thanks Timothy Shead on "Planet K-3D" http://www.k-3d.org/forums/topic/planet-k-3d#post-2703 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:36:48 +0000 Timothy Shead 2703@http://www.k-3d.org/forums/ We've setup a new site - <a href="http://planet.k-3d.org">Planet K-3D</a> - as your one-stop destination to keep track of everything going-on in the K-3D community, including forums, blogs, wikis, and source code repositories. Cheers, Tim Timothy Shead on "hey guys" http://www.k-3d.org/forums/topic/hey-guys#post-2695 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:38:04 +0000 Timothy Shead 2695@http://www.k-3d.org/forums/ This message was originally posted by leif larsen on 10/24/2009 13:28:57 any one using the forum lets get it going :) and maybe a day a irc Timothy Shead on "is k3d suitable for interior design?" http://www.k-3d.org/forums/topic/is-k3d-suitable-for-interior-design#post-2691 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:38:03 +0000 Timothy Shead 2691@http://www.k-3d.org/forums/ This message was originally posted by Andy (lists) on 08/15/2009 11:09:27 Hi, I need to remodel my kitchen and I thought perhaps k3d could help me. First I would like to make an inventory drawing of what the kitchen is like as of now. Then I could use k3d to remodel it. Is this software the right tool to do so. I am using gentoo and k3d installed fine. there are no other CADlike 3D applications available in the portage tree. Qcad is 2D only. Thanks for suggestions. Ben Timothy Shead on "hey new user" http://www.k-3d.org/forums/topic/hey-new-user#post-2681 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:37:59 +0000 Timothy Shead 2681@http://www.k-3d.org/forums/ This message was originally posted by leif larsen on 08/02/2009 12:09:42 is there any irc or that kind of channel to chat and i wish there is deb files for new version could be nice Timothy Shead on "boolean problems" http://www.k-3d.org/forums/topic/boolean-problems#post-2661 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:37:52 +0000 Timothy Shead 2661@http://www.k-3d.org/forums/ This message was originally posted by steeve on 04/03/2009 13:41:16 Hi First of all I’d like to say that I am really enjoying getting familiar with K-3d. I have used and do use many 3d and cad apps professionally, and I haven’t yet come across anything with an approach anything like k-3d...very exciting. Of course at first it is pretty strange, but I think I’m beginning to get it and I like it. The flexibilty, the interface, the concepts...nice. Thanks and kudos to all. But not luck with boolean ops so far, either with 0.6 on ubuntu or with 0.7 on xp. Is this to be expected or am I doing something wrong? Any attempt causes k-3d to close. Even when running the boolean tutorial packed with v0.6 the program closes as soon as the boolean function is called. Steve