damorgue's GB Visualisation Tool

[damorgue]

Going to revive an old project. Teaser shots:

[Zeal]

Auto 3D rendering website coming out soon^TM?  )

[damorgue]

Auto 3D rendering website coming out soon^TM?  )

That would be ideal, but I built my server to be power efficient and about as far from a render farm as you can get unfortunately. There aren't that many simultaneous GBs to warrant a fully automated system.

[Oobly]

Nice!

Going to be applying it to some of the current GBs?

[bueller]

Wow that's a coincidence, I had a similar idea a while back. Interested to see what you've got because I doubt I'll get time to finish mine.

I actually registered gbviz.com for my project, it's yours if you want it.

[damorgue]

Nice!

Going to be applying it to some of the current GBs?

Thanks, it might be, although most of them are already underway so adding images of what they might look like won't help them much since people have already committed to them.

Wow that's a coincidence, I had a similar idea a while back. Interested to see what you've got because I doubt I'll get time to finish mine.

I actually registered gbviz.com for my project, it's yours if you want it.

Thanks. The problem is that you need a beefy server. I built mine to be power efficient unfortunately. I still like the idea of having a web interface though since one can call an executable with a command and set of parameters and make it output a set of images. A web interface could easily generate the parameters and then present the resulting images.

A better idea might be to isolate all the various parts of the image and their influences on the other parts and then just compose an image adding these together. Then all you'd need would be to adjust the hue, saturation and brightness of each component and just add them to an image, instead of rendering the whole thing.

[mkawa]

we have access to a fair amount of compute (and AWS can step in if really needed), but there needs to be a significant caching mechanism..

[Oobly]

Are you going to make other profiles such as DSA and SA too?

This could bring a whole new level of awesome to GB's! I admit it's sometimes hard to visualise from PMK's GB images (and others) what the final product would look like on a board.

[damorgue]

Are you going to make other profiles such as DSA and SA too?

This could bring a whole new level of awesome to GB's! I admit it's sometimes hard to visualise from PMK's GB images (and others) what the final product would look like on a board.

They are already in. They are however missing their fonts. Cherry profile has cherry font aligned. OEM, DCS, DSA and SA are lacking their correct fonts. A few have some arbitrary fonts applied for now.

we have access to a fair amount of compute (and AWS can step in if really needed), but there needs to be a significant caching mechanism..

Does it have anything which can run CUDA?

Edit: It also has both TKL and 60% cases laid out in it to choose from.

[nubbinator]

Thanks, it might be, although most of them are already underway so adding images of what they might look like won't help them much since people have already committed to them.

I'd love to have one for the Royal Apollo 10 GT GB I'm doing soon.  What exactly is your project doing?

[Coreda]

A better idea might be to isolate all the various parts of the image and their influences on the other parts and then just compose an image adding these together. Then all you'd need would be to adjust the hue, saturation and brightness of each component and just add them to an image, instead of rendering the whole thing.

Yea, this is a better way to do it imo. Problem would be getting accurate colors via post tweaking, due to the custom rendered lighting in different scenes though.

An alternative would be rendering every color in SP's (for example) palette, using the same static scenes, isolating one, and then using it as the mask for all the other colored composites. No idea how long that would take  , but it could be a more accurate way of doing it.

A transparent background would also be most useful for photoshopping and use on a site, as you could composite any number of other backgrounds later.

[damorgue]

What exactly is your project doing?

A 3D scene which can be used to render out a few images to show what the outcome of a GB might look like a bit more realistically than the preview images used today. This means more accurate expectations and a better way for GB organizers to explain their vision. For instance the top picture the colours are chosen to make it be close to dolch.

[mkawa]

Are you going to make other profiles such as DSA and SA too?

This could bring a whole new level of awesome to GB's! I admit it's sometimes hard to visualise from PMK's GB images (and others) what the final product would look like on a board.

They are already in. They are however missing their fonts. Cherry profile has cherry font aligned. OEM, DCS, DSA and SA are lacking their correct fonts. A few have some arbitrary fonts applied for now.

we have access to a fair amount of compute (and AWS can step in if really needed), but there needs to be a significant caching mechanism..

Does it have anything which can run CUDA?

Edit: It also has both TKL and 60% cases laid out in it to choose from.

no, we don't have a GPU in the machine yet. we've have to find one or two running around.