Ganthofer

@Rodney - great find - I'm trying out the Edge extension. so far, it's promising. Thanks.

No go, it also requires that you have (or have had) flashplayer installed.

Bump... So, as I ease back into AM, there are a few "bumps" - like all the old .swf files I am finding while searching through my old hard drives and the AM Extra's I had collected back in the day. New PC, Windows 11, don't want to install all sorts of old software (that might be questionable. VLC fails, as does irfanview, because it required that Adobe flash Player already be installed. Of course, that hasn't been around for a while now and is not available from Adobe. I tried a couple of Online converters, similar results you mention above. Any recommendations?

So, I thought I'd bump this back for any discussion on new Apps to make your iPad an extra monitor and use as digital drawing tablet for AM. I just tried Splashtop Wired XDisplay HD, since I already had it. It's somewhat functional, but connctivity even though it is connected with a USB C cable gave me a few problems. I'll be playing with it some more, but there was quite a bit of lag and currently I can't get it to connect (Windows App to iOS App) I was toying with Copilot on my new PC and asked for recommendation. The old usual suspects (from 10+ years ago) came up (Duet Display, AstroPad) but there was also Easy Canvas. Found 3 flavors in the App store: EasyCanvas MacOS 11.0 or later w/ Apple M1 chip or later Win 10 (WDDM ver 2.0 or later) iPad OS 12.2 or later 14 day trial purchace $11.99 EasyCanvas Subscription Mac ??? Win 10 (WDDM ver 2.0 or later) iPad OS 12.2 or later subscription $4.99 EasyCanvas 2025 Win11 or later iPad iOS 17 or later 3 day trial purchase $12.99 The first 2 seem to be identical (version 4.8.4 last update 9 months ago). The 2025 appears to be separate (version 2.0.5 last update 5 months ago). Read a bunch of reviews, found a few youtube reviews: this one is about the Android based Magic Drawing Pad, but he demos using it via EasyCanvas 2025 This one is using iPad Pro but with the earlier version of EasyCanvas Looking at the demos and for the price, it seems like it's worth a try. Has anyone tried it yet?

I like that idea of a spherical material effector and the double gradient. I experimented with a simple double graient material applied to all objects . never quite worked right. I'll have to try this method.

What program are you using the depmth map in to create the final image? I'm just curious. I've played a little with Gimp and Paint.Net. They don't, as Robert pointed out have a proper blur using a depth map. You can't choose the grey value for the infocus depth. So I understand your experimenting to move the white to the area you want to be in focus. But as he also points out, there are problems for some programs to not blur the in focus objects. Like the trees taht are at the same focal depth as your infocus rock. The truck near the ground is infocus, but as it gets thinner and is against the blurred backgournd, it ends up getting blurred. In theory, it should still have sharp edges except where something in the foreground passes in front of it. Gimp seems to leave an unwanted edge on the out of focus objects (at least on my experiments). Paint.Net (with the Blur map plugin) uses a grey scale (or alpha or RGB or ARGB or...) as a blur map with white being in focus and black being blurred. It seems to handle the sharp edges of the in focus objects against a blured background.

Are you wanting to be able to animate this or are you just looking for a way to create a final with the 5 colors? I may be totally off on what you are trying to achieve, but this is my take on the problem: I am assuming since this is showing signal strength, that the Higher signal (e.g. Blue, green, yellow, orange, red) takes precedence. -Split each of the three maps into the 5 layers (one for each of the strength colors) -Make then opaque -sequence the layers Front to Back ( or Top to Bottom) Blues, Greens, ..., Reds -Render (or flatten) and save (depends if you are ding this in A:M or a Paint/Image editing program) -set the transparency

If you are asking about only displaying the patches that are facing the camera/view. Here is the thread that Fuchur answered, Show Backfacing polygons If that's not what you are asking for, then you'll have to clarify what it is. -Robcat2075 beat me to it. I type to slow!!

I am guessing that you turned on "perspective view", no grid or rulers and it's , well, in perspective If you have the default keyboard short cuts, pressing the \ key should toggle it on and off. Also it is the Icon between the Bird's eye and the Camera view on the Views toolbar. If that's not it, any chance of a screen snap?

I definitely like Robert's solution, but if you want geometry, try using Steffen Gross' Explode_Rebuild wizard. It will build an inner or outer surface (depends on the choices you make in the plugin) and you can define the thickness. I not sure if it is included with AM or not. Check for E_Rebuild.hxt in you HXT folder. Steffen Gross' Plugins E_Rebuild instructions quartersMP4.MOV

Well, shows what I know. Learn something new everyday, sometimes useful, sometimes not. Today it was something useful ;-)

I could be wrong here, but I think you will need to use a decal for what you are describing. to make a material scale with your patches, would require, just that, actively changing the scale of the material. Depends on the model and movements, but this would be (could be) quite complicated and may not be practical.

In case you are still interested: 1.start Irfanview 2.from the menu select Options > Screen Capture 3.Configure as needed. (see screen shot made with Irfanview

I didn't see you mention anywhere if you were using multipass. I notice that when using multi pass, with the light as part of a model, it shifts the light from where you center it in the modeling window (appears to be affected by the width setting). Haven't done any further investigation at the moment. Just a thought.

Irfanview is my preferred program. But Wink is quite useful to. Irfanview home page (added note from website: IrfanView is provided as freeware, but only for private, non-commercial use (that means at home). IrfanView is free for educational use (schools, universities and libraries) and for use in charity or humanitarian organisations.)) Wink (debugmode) home page download (added note from website: Freeware: Distributed as freeware for business or personal use. However if you want to redistribute Wink, you need to get permission from the author.)