ILD SÔS - Ilda Manupulation Tool Now Available

[drlava]

another animation that you may have seen before in Spaghetti, but now improved. Work continues, look for a decrease in 'blinkiness' of 3D animations soon.

(30k ILDA V5 click image)

[drlava]

Hi, here are some more demo files finally. They have been re-done with the latest version. They are set for 30k with ILDA test pattern blanking. Animations are set for continuous 30kpps frame-by-frame. Animations have been done in 3DS Max with illustrate! plugin and ILD SOS for conversion. Logos converted from DXF in ILD SOS. Other stills drawn in inkscape and converted to ILDA with ILD SOS. The hallway was done by dr_laser (thanks for all your testing these months). For proper display, your software should not add or remove points, or change the blanking path.
Enjoy!

(click)

[soforene]

Cheers chappy.

[Alex_kld]

i can't load .dfx file in ILD SOS. WhY?

[drlava]

You don't give me much to go on, but probably your error is that you are trying to load a DXF version that it doesn't understand.
Download acme cad converter 7.98:
http://www.soft32.com/download_1588.html
open the DXF and re-save it in AutoCad R12 format.
Then it should open.

[Alex_kld]

i download acme cad, open dfx and resave in R12, but in ILD sos not open....
i attached file with screenshot ILD SOS...proces download .dfx in ILD sos in stop...
i attached .dfx file...please check it.

[Alex_kld]

and it check....

[drlava]

thanks for posting test files. The program reads in the EXTMIN and EXTMAX data from the file in order to determine the 'frame' (zoom) that the data should be displayed in. In these cases, your extmin and max are huge values that will cause the picture to look like a tiny dot in the center. For now, you can delete these lines:

$EXTMIN
 10
1.000000000000000E+20
 20
1.000000000000000E+20
 30
1.000000000000000E+20
  9
$EXTMAX
 10
-1.000000000000000E+20
 20
-1.000000000000000E+20
 30
-1.000000000000000E+20
  9

using notepad on the dxf files. This will fix loading of the eiffel. The dfx file has an additional complication - the entities of the picture are in 'blocks', not in the usual place in the dxf file. I will add block functionality to ILD SOS to correct for this in the next release, along with an EXTMIN EXTMAX sanity check. Till then, see if you can save the 'dfx' files without block grouping.

[Frixxion]

Hi drlava, I want to see first what I can do with 3DS max before I will buy the software. I can get Autodesk 3ds max 2010 with a student license (all legal). Is the Illustrate! plugin included in 3ds max? Or do I have to 'buy' the plugin as well?

[decix]

You gotta buy it.
http://www.davidgould.com/Illustrate/index.html

[Frixxion]

100$? Ok, never mind me asking...

[Dr Laser]

30 day free fully functional trial. You can get Illustrate! for 99$ with Student license.

[drlava]

Hi Frixxion, as they said, there is a 30 day free trial for illustrate!
http://www.davidgould.com/Illustrate/Products.htm
After using it, and especially comparing with the alternatives, I thought $99 for a student copy was a pretty generous offer from David. The plugin is extremely fast and has very nice features. Even if it's not right for you now, at least reconsider before you graduate or some day you may wish you had

[Dr Laser]

Refreshing my 3ds max spline modeling skills. Here is a 3d car spin around. 3ds Max+Illustrate!+SOS. Supposed to be a Porsche 911 but turned out to be something lookalike AM V8 Vantage

[Alex_kld]

Hi Drlava and Dr. Laser!
i have ILDSos soft, but say me please that I should make that I could import files into
3DMAX, Ilustrator?

[drlava]

If I understand your question, what you need to import renders from 3DMAX is the illustrate! plugin. With this plugin you will not only be able to render a scene, but also can render camera and object animations as demonstrated. Not sure about illustrator, possibly you can export an early illustrator format, load that into inkscape, and use my modified inkscape export plugin to export to DXF for ILD SOS.

[Alex_kld]

Where I can find this plug-in?

[Alex_kld]

http://www.davidgould.com/Illustrate/Products.htm?

[drlava]

Yes, but without the question mark. That is for 3DS max.
There is also a thread here that explains how to use free software to acheive 3D hidden line rendering, search for TL's thread on Blender.

[Alex_kld]

Hello!
i made export object from 3DS MAX(illustrate plugin5.5) in .dxf , CORAL read it normally, but in ILD SOS all line and point is blaking.
Questions; That I have made incorrectly?

i attached screenshot's.

[drlava]

You're going to want to turn on live preview and preview processing to see the path reduction. What you see now in the preview window is *before* this. Also you're going to want to update to ILD SOS 1.2.53. Will send an email.

[Dr Laser]

Wait a sec. We've never tested Illustrate 5.5. It maybe saving files as CAD r12 or r2008 or so on. SOS was originally design for r10 import. I would recomend to send a dxf file to drlava.

[Dr Laser]

Because of a new plugin for 3ds max I don't wanna be left out. Here is what illustrat!+SOS can do.

[Dr Laser]

Hello!
i made export object from 3DS MAX(illustrate plugin5.5) in .dxf , CORAL read it normally, but in ILD SOS all line and point is blaking.
Questions; That I have made incorrectly?

i attached screenshot's.

Tested Illustrate! 5.6 30 day Trial on 3ds Max 2010 30 day trial. Illustrate is still saves dxf as r10. And I had no problem importing it into SOS.

[Dr Laser]

More examples what can be done.