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1. Map User Manual Version 1 5 2005 2008 by db amp w Bornemann und Wolf GbR Software License and Limited Warranty Agreement PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE DOWNLOADING INSTALLING OR USING THIS SOFTWARE THIS SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT IS A LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU EITHER AN INDIVIDUAL OR IF PUR CHASED OR OTHERWISE ACQUIRED BY OR FOR AN ENTITY AN ENTITY AND DB amp W BORNEMANN UND WOLF GBR BY CLICKING THE ACCEPT BUTTON OPENING THE PACKAGE DOWLOADING INSTALLING OR OTHERWISE USING THIS SOFTWARE YOU AGREE TO BECOME BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE CLICK THE DO NOT ACCEPT BUTTON AND DO NOT DOWNLOAD INSTALL OR USE THIS SOFTWARE OTHERWISE 1 0 DEFINITIONS Licensee means you the User who agrees to all of the terms set forth in this Software License and Warranty Agreement by downloading installing or using this software Licensed Software shall mean the infiniMap plug in for LightWave 3D and documentation for infiniMap Software shall mean the infiniMap plug in for LightWave 3D and documentation for infiniMap 2 0 OWNERSHIP OF THE SOFTWARE The Licensee acknowledges and agrees that all of the computer programs and associated documentation are owned exclusively by db amp w Bornemann und Wolf GbR You agree that the price paid by you for the Software is a license fee granting you only rights set forth in this License Agreement 3 0 RESTRICTED
2. Also some options may only be visible if an image is actually selected in the Image Selector The Options are available in the procedural texture and the shader In the procedural interface some of the option names had to be shortened due to space constraints 17 February 2008 Version 1 5 Page 8 infiniMap User Manual Common User Interface Elements About infiniMap About infiniMap About infiniMap Pro This displays a panel with the credits for infiniMap as well J as the version number and the date the plugin was es j created Map Pro The version information is quite handy when you require support and check for updates As an additional note we would once again like to thank our trusty beta testers for their patience and support The About infiniMap panel will also display the total amount of memory used by all images handled by infiniMap This is especially handy if you re working with FPrime It will also display the maximum amount of memory that the libraries used to handle JPEG 2000 and ECW images may use to speed up access to the image files on disk This value is adapted to your actual RAM usage The more available memory you have the more memory may be used and vice versa Please note this is a maximum value and infiniMap is likely to actually use lot less than that Open infiniMap Browser infiniMap Browser This is a quick way to access the infiniMap Browser from within
3. 2000 standard We have put a particular emphasis on good architecture design and code simplicity while at the same time providing an implementation as complete and efficient as possible The source code for the codec is freely available for anyone to study or even for use in commercial programs We hope that our open development process and our focus on clean straightforward code will help make the J2000 codec become a reference implementation of the JPEG 2000 standard J2000 Copyright c 2001 2002 David Janssens All rights reserved Redistribution and use in source and binary forms with or without modification are permitted provided that the following conditions are met 1 Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice this list of conditions and the following disclaimer 2 Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and or other materials provided with the distribution THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS AS IS AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT INDIRECT INCIDENTAL SPECIAL EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SE
4. Feb 14 2008 LightWave can load into an ECW JPEG 2000 image ready to be used within infiniMap Due to licensing restrictions the Converter is limited to a maximum source image size of 500MB when converting to ECW JPEG 2000 images InfiniMap Pro can read much larger images created in other applications though Kees Co ert Converting to OpenEXR images is not limited in size This converter panel will show up when you attempt to load an image that is not native to infiniMap into one of the infiniMap plugins Licensed users also have access to a standalone plugin batch converter covered in the next chapter Depending on the context of the conversion and the license of infiniMap some of the controls may be missing The conversion settings are stored between sessions in the content directory this allows for content project specific conversion settings Here is a short description of the controls Image Information This area just displays some information about the source image mainly the channels used as returned by LightWave Source The converter can use two different types of source images From File You can load an image from a file This can be a ECW JPEG 2000 or OpenEXR image The converter also supports loading any type of image that LightWave 3D provides a plugin for this doesn t include Targa FLX and IFF which are native to LightWave 3D If you load an image that uses the
5. LICENSE infiniMap db amp w Bornemann und Wolf GbR grants Licensee a non exclusive non transferable non assignable non sub licensable revocable and restricted license to use Licensed Software in machine readable object code form only The licensee agrees to use the Software solely for the purposes as outlined in this Agreement The License Agreement does not convey to the licensee any ownership rights or any other interest in the software 4 0 SCOPE OF LICENSE This Software is licensed to be installed and used only in connexion with one LightWave 3D license A valid license must be purchased for each LightWave 3D license 5 0 LICENSE RESTRICTIONS No license is granted to Licensee for any other purpose and Licensee may not sell rent lent lease loan or sub license or otherwise encumber or transfer the Licensed Software in whole or in part to any third party for any purpose 5 1 Licensee may not duplicate or modify or translate or decompile or create derivative works of the Licensed Software or disassemble or reverse engineer script or protocols of the Licensed Software 5 2 Licensee agrees to use all reasonable efforts to protect the Software from unauthorized use modification re production distribution or publication 5 3 Licensee acknowledges that nothing in this Agreement gives Licensee the right to use any trademark trade name or service mark of db amp w Bornemann und Wolf GbR or any third party from whom db amp w Borneman
6. LightWave 3D plugins infiniMap will need to create a temporary file first This file can be rather huge it is uncompressed and stored in the default temporary directory of the computer The file is deleted after conversion The conversion itself will use as little memory as possible converting one scanline after the other This conversion process is multi threaded If you pick an OpenEXR source image file all layers and channels will be preserved 14 The 500MB refer to the raw uncompressed size of the image This can be computed using the following formula width height number of channels depth per channel in bytes For example an image that is 1920x1080 pixels large contains 4 colour channels i e Red Green Blue Alpha using 8 byte each for 256 different shades per channel would be 1920 1080 4 1 6220800 bytes which is 5 9 MB divide twice by 1024 to convert from bytes to Megabytes Fortunately infiniMap does that math and will warn you if the 500MB limit is exceeded 17 February 2008 Version 1 5 Page 19 infiniMap User Manual infiniMap Converter Loaded LightWave Image You can also convert an image that is currently loaded into LightWave 3D If you select this option you can pick one of the loaded images as a source for conversion Input File Here you can select a file to use as the source image if the Source is set to From File Image This pop up allows you to pick an image loaded into LightWav
7. UV wrapping modes etc Please refer to your LightWave 3D documentation for more information on the projection types Spherical Section Projection The Spherical Section Projection is unique to infiniMap It basically works like a spherical projection but allows you to define the area of the sphere that will be covered by the image using angles It can also be considered as a spherical projection defined by Longitude Latitude coordinates to add high detail imagery to globes Left Edge This defines the left edge of the image in degrees Width This defines the width of the image in degrees Top Edge This defines the location of the top edge of the image on the sphere in degrees Height This defines the width in degrees At a value of Left Edge 0 Width 360 Top Edge 90 Height 180 the image will wrap the entire sphere Image Selection This pop up menu works just like the image selector in the image texture layer provided by LightWave You can use it to select any of the currently loaded infiniMap images or load a new one If you attempt to load an image that can t be used natively by infiniMap but can be converted using the Converter infiniMap will open the Converter for you You can then change the settings convert the image and the result will be loaded into infiniMap Loaded images actually do not use any memory until a render process is started this can be a preview including the preview spher
8. a shader a procedural texture layer and a node Compatible with HDInstance A user interface that remains as close as possible to the native image texturing interface provided by LightWave 3D resulting in a minimal learning curve Complete support for multi threading to make full use of multi processor multi core and or hyper threading computers Low memory footprint Shared image caches Multiple instances of the same image use a shared cache reducing the amount of memory required during rendering for scenes that re use identical images or single channels thereof FPrime support Useful tools to make working with infiniMap images easier such as an automatic openGL preview layer generation tool to make infiniMap images visible in Layout Free network render nodes Unlicensed plugins can be used to load render and save infiniMap enabled scenes there is no need to purchase a license for every copy of LightWave 3D in your facility ScreamerNet network rendering support of course Convert images to the ECW JPEG 2000 and OpenEXR format from within LightWave 3D Replace images globally Simple Colour Correction for every plugin Instance Support for JPEG 2000 images with up to 28 bits per channel a limitation of the JPEG 2000 standard Free point upgrades free support free beer 3 As far as the SDK allows that is unfortunately there are still some missing hooks Limitations are detailed in the sections describing the a
9. current scene Low Res FPrime Low FPrime This option is the same as the Low Res Preview option but for FPrime renders only Please note that this settings affects FPrime final renders as well using the FPrime Render plugin As a default this settings is off in case you want to quickly load a scene and render it with FPrime Render 17 February 2008 Version 1 5 Page 11 infiniMap User Manual Common User Interface Elements Free Memory infiniMap tries to manage memory as intelligently as possible however there may be cases where this doesn t work as expected If you work with FPrime extensively and preview on a single frame but toggle the Low Res FPrime option a lot or move the camera about infiniMap may use more memory than it really needs to Normally it re evaluates its memory usage when you change to a different frame but you can also use the Free Memory option to tell infiniMap to release all memory Registration This item opens up the license manager used during the installation Once the plugin is activated you will not need to enter the license manager again but we do provide this option to allow you to check the registration Texture Quality Texture Quality defines the resolution of the image texture when applied on the final render While infiniMap tries to estimate the needed quality depending on a variety of factors such as the size of the final render or the
10. render node In Spider for example you can configure the nodes to render any number of frames at a time instead of distributing the frames to be rendered one at a time to the render nodes Other render controllers may have similar options Known Issues Unfortunately some things just never work they way they should We tried to squash every bug we encountered however sometimes it wasn t possible due to circumstances outside of our control LightWave 3D itself has a couple of holes within the SDK and the interaction with FPrime can be troublesome at times as well Please note that newer releases of LightWave 3D or infiniMap might have solved some of these issues Please check www infinimap com regularly for updates Here is a short list of Known issues and a collection of workarounds that should make your life easier in critical situations e Pasting procedural texture layers may crash LightWave if FPrime is rendering at the same time It is recommended that you Pause FPrime before pasting a texture layer and then Unpause to commence rendering after the paste operation e If LightWave slows down drastically if you have the Surface Editor open try to increase the size of the preview sphere and or change the update mode to Manual LScript The following commands can be issues from LScript or as a LightWave command Generic_infiniMap_Browser Opens the infiniMap Browser Generic_infiniMap_Converter Opens the infiniMap Conv
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12. size as well In certain situations image sizes of tens or hundreds of gigabytes are quite common Higher render resolutions for HDTV film or print also require highly detailed high resolution image maps for texturing InfiniMap is a LightWave 3D plugin that allows the user to render virtually unlimited size textures within a familiar interface This is accomplished by only loading the parts of an image into memory that are actually visible in the resolution needed for the final image To determine the optimum resolution of the image need for the render infiniMap uses a number of variables including for example the distance of the mesh to the camera We have rendered animations of the earth using more than 3GB of images in video resolution using only 300MB of memory including the memory used by LightWave 3D in the process We have also rendered images of tens of gigabytes using infiniMap on computers with 500MB of ram successfully A smart caching system makes sure that the performance hit on render times is minimal especially when rendering out animations The loading of scenes with infiniMap images is much quicker than using native images It has been our goal to integrate infiniMap as tightly into LightWave 3D as possible and to adhere to existing standards to make using it a smooth experience If the user interface differs from the original LightWave 3D image layers this is due to the SDK unfortunately not allowing for a 100 ac
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14. G 2000 or the ECW image file format Free ECW JPEG 2000 Compressor by ERMapper www ermapper com This is one of the best compression tools out there it is however limited to a raw image size of 500MB and only supports TIF and JPEG as source images ERMapper also have a free ECW JPEG 2000 viewer for download that is quite nice and handles huge images beautifully Photoshop CS2 by Adobe www adobe com Photoshop now supports JPEG 2000 images as well so you can save your images in JPEG 2000 from within Photoshop CS2 j2k by Fnord software www fnordware com 2k A free compression decompression library for Photoshop and After Effects both Mac and Windows are supported JasPer by Michael D Adams http www ece uvic ca mdadams asper This is a free implementation of a JPEG 2000 compressor decompressor source code included It allows for command line compression of images there are some graphical front ends available though most notable GeoJasPer at http www dimin net software utils htm LuraWave by LuraTech www uratech com A commercial compressor available either as a stand alone tool or as a Photoshop plugin JPEG Toolbox V2 by Morgan Multimedia www morgan multimedia com JPEG 2000 A3D Compressor from Anything 3D www anything3d com Most of these compression tools will choke at images that are larger than your main memory Also TIFF images beyond 2GB are a problem for most conversion tools since the T
15. IFF standard is only a 32bit standard For large scale compression we recommend ERMapper by ERMapper www ermapper com or Manifold System by manifold net htto Avwww manifold net for the budget conscious A full list of tools is also available in the support section at www db w com OpenEXR related tools We recommend ProEXR htto www fnordware com ProEXR there you will also find some simple command line tools to display OpenEXR images or to extract detailed information Tips amp Tricks Well only one so far To speed up the Surface Editor increase the size of the preview sphere visible at the top of the Surface Editor or set the Refresh Hate to Manual in the Surface Editor options 17 February 2008 Version 1 5 Page 24 infiniMap User Manual Network Rendering Network Rendering infiniMap is ScreamerNet compatible and allows for network renders You can install the plugin on any render node and it will render as expected Here are a couple of pointers to make network rendering with infiniMap a painless experience e Make sure infiniMap is properly installed in the plugin configuration file either lwext cfg for LightWave 3D 7 x or lwext8 cfg for LightWave 3D 8 x e Use content directories infiniMap saves and loads images in relation to the content directory if possible e To make maximum use of the image cache used by infiniMap configure your render controller to render successive frames on the same
16. OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES LOSS OF USE DATA OR PROFITS OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY WHETHER IN CONTRACT STRICT LIABILITY OR TORT INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE 5 zlib zlib general purpose compression library version 1 2 3 July 18th 2005 Copyright C 1995 2005 Jean loup Gailly and Mark Adler This software is provided as is without any express or implied warranty In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software Jean loup Gailly jloup qgzip org Mark Adler madler alumni caltech edu 6 LightWrap a C wrapper for LightWave Copyright c 2007 db amp w Bornemann und Wolf GbR All rights reserved Redistribution and use in source and binary forms with or without modification are permitted provided that the following conditions are met Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice this list of conditions and the following disclaimer Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and or other materials provided with the distribution Neither the name of db amp w GbR nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse o
17. RVICES LOSS OF USE DATA OR PROFITS OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY WHETHER IN CONTRACT STRICT LIABILITY OR TORT INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE 4 OpenEXR by ILM OpenEXR Copyright c 2002 Industrial Light amp Magic a division of Lucas Digital Ltd LLC All rights reserved Redistribution and use in source and binary forms with or without modification are permitted provided that the following conditions are met Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice this list of conditions and the following disclaimer Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and or other materials provided with the distribution Neither the name of Industrial Light amp Magic nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS AS IS AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT INDIRECT INCIDENTAL SPECIAL EXEMPLARY
18. S but is faster to compress on the other hand it is slower to decompress PIZ is recommended for grainy images PXR24 lossy A wavelet based compression scheme similar to PIZ 32bit float numbers are cut off to 24bit loosing 8 bits of precision B44 lossy A compression scheme designed for the real time playback of OpenEXR images with a constant compression ratio B44A lossy Just like B44 but solid areas Such as alpha channels have a better compression ratio These are explained in more detail in the Technical Introduction to OpenEXR available as a PDF at www openexr com Tile Size This determines the size of the tiles in the tiled OpenEXR images Larger tiles allow the compression to be more effective reducing the final image size They are also slightly faster to load an decompress Smaller tiles allow infiniMap to use memory more effectively while rendering We recommend a size of 32x32 or 64x64 Output File This opens a file requester allowing you to pick an output file Convert Image This will finally convert the image Depending on the image size and CPU speed this may take a couple of minutes A progress window is displayed during the conversion and infiniMap will also display some statistics after the conversion has completed 15 admit it didn t want to copy and paste the entire section over from the OpenEXR website The document is highly recommended to understand the capabilities of Op
19. a channel this will O LoD Senge KAE CT be applied while merging it onto the Bg Colour Similar to Bang sl how image editing applications merge a layer with ES transparencies on top of other layers ee This behaviour is identical to the LightWave 3D image 10 lr node 1 0 cig RGB This output makes that raw RGB values of the image available Unlike the Colour output no blending is being done Alpha This output provides the raw Alpha channel of the loaded image if one exists in the infiniMap image Normal This output is the normal to be shaded by LightWave 3D It is derived from the original surface normal being modified by the image as a bump map Basically it is the Bump output subtracted from the original surface normal The Bump Amplitude affects this output Bump This is the change of the surface normal when interpreting the infiniMap image as a bump map This is affected by the Bump Amplitude 17 February 2008 Version 1 5 Page 16 infiniMap User Manual infiniMap Extended Node infiniMap Extended Node 3 o infiniGlobe infiniMap Extended 1 ege The extended node works just like the normal infiniMap Node If an image contains more than one layer only OpenEXR images support that feature currently it can output all layers at once Instead of using multiple nodes to extract layered data from a single image one can thus use only this node to extract all layers provided that they all use
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21. ctive conversion tasks If you select more than one image you will be prompted for the Output Folder conversion settings to be used for all tasks The settings correspond to the respective settings in the converter If you leave the Output Folder blank the converted images will be saved in the same directory as the selected files 17 February 2008 Version 1 5 Page 22 infiniMap User Manual infiniMap Converter standalone plugin Batch Add Folder This will add a complete folder of images to the task list Other than that this option behaves just like Add Files Remove This will remove the currently selected entry from the list of processing tasks Convert All Images This will process all conversion tasks You will be prompted with a window displaying further Conversion Options options Overwrite existing files activated by default This will allow the converter to overwrite existing files automatically If you turn this off and infiniMap would overwrite an existing file you will be prompted to either allow overwriting the file or not Remove image from list activated by default This will remove successful conversion tasks from the batch list 17 February 2008 Version 1 5 Page 23 infiniMap User Manual Appendices Appendices JPEG 2000 and ECW conversion tools In addition to the Converter shipping with infiniMap there are numerous other tools to convert images to the JPE
22. ctual plugins 4 Even though we won t complain if you do We do offer volume pricing as well as site licenses 5 Ok so we re joking about the beer 17 February 2008 Version 1 5 Page 2 infiniMap User Manual Feature Comparison Feature Comparison There are three versions of infiniMap available infiniMap Le is the free Version All versions support loading saving and rendering scenes and objects created with any of the other versions Pro and Exr functionality is unlocked by the license file we send out after purchase Texturing plugins Projection types Native image format Supported platforms Conversion options Supported input image formats Le Surface Shader Planar only Tiled OpenEXR JPEG 2000 ECW Windows 32 64 bit OSX UB Single Image converter Convert on load if the source image is not native to infiniMap Exr Surface Shader Texture Layer Texture Node Multi Channel Node All image projections supported by LightWave 3D The Texture Layer does not support UV mapping Tiled OpenEXR Windows 32 64 bit OSX UB Batch image converter Convert on load if the source image is not native to infiniMap Pro Surface Shader Texture Layer Texture Node Multi Channel Node All image projections supported by LightWave 3D The Texture Layer does not support UV mapping Tiled OpenEXR JPEG 2000 ECW Windows 32 64 bit Batch image converter Conver
23. curate replacement of the user interface The currently supported image file formats are ECW from ER Mapper as well as JPEG 2000 and tiled OpenEXR images You can use infiniMap to create ECW JPEG 2000 or tiled OpenEXR images using our new batch converter or one of the tools listed in the appendix of this manual Compatibility infiniMap requires at least LightWave 3D 9 0 and has been tested with LightWave 3D up to version 9 3 1 The Extended Node requires at least version 9 2 of LightWave 3D It currently runs with the Windows 32bit and Windows 64bit versions of LightWave It has been tested with Windows 2000 as well as the 32bit and 64bit versions of Windows XP and Windows Vista The OSX Universal Binary has been tested with OSX 10 4 and 10 5 on both PPC and Intel processors Upon demand we can also port a Linux render node version Please visit www infinimap com for more up to date information 1 Well not quite the current limit is an image size of 4 294 967 296 x 4 294 967 296 pixels 2 Currently the OSX UB version does not support ECW or JPEG 2000 images 17 February 2008 Version 1 5 Page 1 infiniMap User Manual Features Features infiniMap has been thoroughly tested in production by us and our trusty beta testers The main features of infiniMap are Full compatibility to LightWave 3D s surfacing allowing for an easy replacement of native image texture layers with infiniMap texture layers Works as
24. d Time Reference projection UV Map UV projection not available in the texture layer Originally Posted by Exper Parameter 1 use it to change the value of Parameter 1 Front 100 0 Left Edge Width Top Edge Height Spherical SE Section only e Image Image selection Layer selection Channel selection Image Preview Area e Options e Texture Quality e LoD Blending PROX 100 0 100 0 100 0 e UV Tiles UV Tiling and UV Offset to modify the SE projection e Editing colour correction 1 0 teg These are explained in more detail in the following sections Projection Types infiniMap supports all projection types that LightWave3D provides to normal image maps Unfortunately due to limitations within the SDK UV mapping is only supported by the infiniMap shader The projection types are e Planar projection e Cylindrical projection e Spherical Projection 9 Actually to a large extent they are based on the same source code as well 17 February 2008 Version 1 5 Page 6 infiniMap User Manual Common User Interface Elements e Cubic Projection e Front Projection also Known as Camera projection e UV Map not available in the procedural texture e Spherical Section Projection Each one of these behaves exactly like the matching image projection type in LightWave 3D infiniMap also supports all the options such as the UV tiling amounts and
25. distance to the camera this may produce inaccurate results in some cases This settings allows you to tweak the resolution and thus the sharpness of the image texture The higher the value the more detailed the image texture will be within the limits of the image resolution infiniMap will also use more memory during rendering A lower value will blur the image texture more but also lowers the memory usage In most cases the default value of 100 is appropriate but you might want to tweak it after checking your final render or your memory usage LoD Blending When rendering infiniMap creates a number of level of details LoD small parts of the image texture at different resolutions These are applied to the surface depending on the Texture Quality setting and other factors such as the distance to the camera To smooth transitions from one level of detail or image resolution to another infiniMap blends the level of details LoD Blending specifies over what range this blending happens The higher the value the more memory will be used although the memory hit is not as significant as changing the Texture Quality We recommend the default setting If you can clearly see the different resolutions switch this tends to be visible in animations especially with a low LoD Blending setting you should increase this value The useful range of LoD Blending values is between 0 and 100 17 February 2008 Version 1 5 Page 12 i
26. e 3D as a conversion source if the Source is set to Loaded LightWave Image Destination infiniMap can either work with ECW JPEG 2000 images or tiled OpenEXR images natively Only the Pro version supports ECW JPEG 2000 This option allows you to select the kind of output image and will then display the relevant options ECW JPEG 2000 Pro Le only The file name extension of the output file determines if this option writes out a ECW or a JPEG 2000 image Call your file lt filename gt jp2 to convert to a JPEG 2000 image Call your file lt filename gt ecw to convert to an ECW image JPEG 2000 files are a standardized cross vendor image format that can be read by other applications as well It can also supports lossless compression ECW on the other hand is an image format developed by ERMapper and is mainly designed for geodata The compression is always lossy However it is slightly faster to compress and decompress compared to JPEG 2000 Compression Ratio 1 This slider allows you to set the compression ratio for the converted image A higher value will producer smaller images Since the compression is lossy a higher value will also display more compression artefacts A value between 5 and 20 is a good trade off between final file size and image quality JPEG 2000 supports lossless compression Set the Compression Ratio to 1 1 to compress without loss Tiled OpenEXR Tiled OpenEXR images are a special flavour of O
27. e Plugin Developers mailing list especially Marvin Landis and Ernie Wright for their insight into the more obscure depths of the LightWave SDK db amp w Bornemann und Wolf GbR Seyfferstr 34 70197 Stuttgart Germany www db w com info db w com vi Table of Contents Introduction 1 Compatibili conics eee es ee en ee ae eee ee 1 Se 2 FO tS COM SO E 3 KEE ee 3 Important note for users earlier versions Of mifmiMan 3 setting up infiniMap 4 Ip UE len ea E E EEE E A E E E suse eodnnanoemuoneas 4 PRO eE Eea p AE EA e EEE E E E E E A E O T 4 HPPA UES ek GA Lil GC 5 f Reference 6 Common User Interface Elements cc cccecc sec seeceececeeeeeeceeeeeeteeeeeseeeneceeeeeetecseaeeseneeseneness 6 INTINIMAP Procedural TExXtUrG icsi ea a N EEE E 14 Il UE SNANG E 15 PAI D el 16 INfinIMap Extended Node 17 OMAD Ee UE EEN 18 INFINIMAP Converter 19 infiniMap Converter standalone plugin Batch 22 Appendices 24 JPEG 2000 and ECW conversion oos 24 O PENEAR related Kee EE 24 TOS e leier 24 IS TVONICS CLS e EE 25 KOWD SSS e a ins E T E E E T E TE 25 ESTE o E E E EAIA E A EA A A A A E AA 25 Glossary of Used WE ER 26 FPA a rsa ce recente A E A E E E taraeanemonabentes 26 Alphabetical Index 27 vii infiniMap User Manual Introduction introduction Even in the age of 64 bit computing RAM is a limited resource While it is quite common to have workstations with gigabytes of RAM images used to texture in 3D applications have grown in
28. e in the Surface Editor a final render or a FPrime render infiniMap keeps track of the usage of the images If no plugin actually uses one of the images in this list the image is automatically removed from the list infiniMap EXR will not allow you to pick a ECW JPEG 2000 image but you can still load save and render objects that use ECW JPEG 2000 images except for the OSX version 10 which is incidentally what it was designed for 11 As always there is an exception to the rule Procedural texture layers when copied using the Copy button still hold on to the infiniMap image they use So you may notice an image being in the list that you re sure isn t being used because you copied an infiniMap procedural texture layer that uses this image No worries next time you Copy a texture layer or restart LightWave 3D it will be gone 17 February 2008 Version 1 5 Page 7 infiniMap User Manual Common User Interface Elements Layer Selection E infiniMap Browser L anano Aces D OpenEXR can store multiple layers in a single image file If the selected image contains more than one layer you may pick one of them using the Layer Selection The Extended Node even allows accessing multiple layers at once s a e w Image Information Low Res FFrime Replace Image Channel Selection Unlike LightWave 3D infiniMap allows you to specify which channel of an image you wish to use for texturing In so
29. e licensing process 8 Currently the infiniMap Settings only limit the maximum amount of memory used to cache ECW JPEG 2000 images It has no effect if you use OpenEXR images 17 February 2008 Version 1 5 Page 4 infiniMap User Manual Registration The registration file is stored in the same directory where the plugin resides If you use multiple licenses of LightWave 3D from a single network share the registration manager will only append edit licenses locked to the dongle installed on the host machine It will manage multiple licenses allowing for a single registration file on your network share Included Plugins infiniMap is actually a suite of plugins for LightWave 3D Currently it consists of the following plugins e infiniMap Texture Layer e infiniMap Shader e infiniMap Node e infiniMap Extended Node e infiniMap Browser e infiniMap Converter e InfiniMap Settings 17 February 2008 Version 1 5 Page 5 infiniMap User Manual Reference Reference Common User Interface Elements Both the procedural and the shader use many common elements in their user interface The common user interface elements used by both plugins from top to bottom are e Projection Planar Cylindrical Spherical Cubic Front UV not available in the texture layer Spherical Section e Depending on the type of projection these additional controls may also be visible Fixe
30. enEXR 17 February 2008 Version 1 5 infiniMap Converter Page 21 infiniMap User Manual infiniMap Converter standalone plugin Batch infiniMap Converter standalone plugin Batch yo infiniMap Converter V1 5 Win32 Format Source Image Target Image wi JK ZE LA images land_shallow_topo_weshecw jpg images land_shallo Input File Images e433 elevation_srtm_8bit_1 6k et Output File Images land shallow topo_westecw j2p I Pe Add File s Add Folder Convert All Images The batch converter is only available for licensed versions of infiniMap either infiniMap Exr or infiniMap Pro Unlicensed versions of infiniMap will display the converter as described in the previous chapter The left hand side of the converter shows the list of conversion tasks The right hand side shows the conversion settings for the task selected on the left These options are identical to the normal converter as described in the previous chapter and are described there The task list is stored in the content directory between sessions of the batch converter The task list also remains if you close and restart LightWave 3D The buttons at the bottom of the batch converter all you to Add Image Add any image that is currently loaded into LightWave 3D as a new conversion task Add Files s This opens a file selector to pick one or more images Bulk Settings using the shift or ctrl key and Tiled Der adds the respe
31. erter 17 February 2008 Version 1 5 Page 25 infiniMap User Manual Glossary of Used Terms Glossary of Used Terms SDK software development kit Basically a set of tools and documents to allow the creation to plugins In the case of LightWave3D the SDK provided by NewTek JPEG 2000 Wavelet based successor to the JPEG standard for compressed images It allows for lossless compression more than 8 bits per channel and has a variety of enhanced features ECW an advanced wavelet based compressed image file format developed by ER Mapper Now replaced by JPEG 2000 OpenEXR A HDR image format designed by ILM for post production pipelines that has found a wide acceptance in the industry openGL preview layer A term used by infiniMap for a texture layer within a surface that serves no other purpose but to display an approximation of an infiniMap image in the openGL real time preview of LightWave3D Basically it is an image layer with the opacity set to 0 which will still display in openGL but not during renders Please note that GLSL needs to be turned off in the LightWave 3D OpenGL options for the preview layer to be visible in the viewports FAQ can t create an openGL proxy layer from the Shader Unfortunately for this to work from the shader you will have to manually activate the texture layering on the surface colour Click on the T button to the right of the surface base colour once to activate it Now the infin
32. harmless db amp w Bornemann und Wolf GbR and its respective officers directors employees agents successors and assigns from any damage allegation cost loss liability or expense including court costs and reasonable fees for attorneys or other professionals arising out of or resulting from or in connexion with any breach or claimed breach of the terms of this Agreement or warranties provided herein Trademark and copyright information 2005 2008 db amp w Bornemann und Wolf GbR All rights reserved All brands company names and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holder TRADEMARKS This paper may contain brands company names and product names of third parties and following are the requirements for identifying trademarks and registered trademarks of those third parties This list is not exhaustive and the paper may contain brands company names and product names of additional third parties All brands company names and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holder LightWave and LightWave 3D are registered Trademarks of NewTek Inc IP Acknowledgements This plugin uses the ECW JPEG 2000 SDK by ER Mapper some parts of this SDK are based on 3rd party open source libraries and projects 1 TinyXML XML parsing for GML Geolocation Metadata TinyXML is distributed under the zlib license www sourceforge net projects tinyxml 2 LittleCMS ICC Profi
33. heir default settings Enveloped values can unfortunately not be reset due to SDK limitations 17 February 2008 Version 1 5 Page 13 infiniMap User Manual infiniMap Procedural Texture infiniMap Procedural Texture it Texture Editor Globe Color The procedural component of infiniMap is probably the plugin you will spend the most time using Except for some special cases we recommend using the Procedural Texture instead of the shader A few reasons are e The procedural texture is more versatile than the shader and can be used on any surface channel e Unlike the shader the procedural texture is compatible with FPrime e Procedurals seem to be faster when rendering compared to shaders Unfortunately the SDK provided with the current releases for LightWave 3D doesn t allow procedural textures to access UV Maps UY Tiling There are also limitations to the accuracy of the Texture Quality setting As long as the Scale of the texture is correct and the textured object itself has not been scaled within Layout the Quality Setting will be correct A change of the size of the object in Layout will need a readjustment of the Texture Quality setting The Quality has to be set to roughly the square of the scale factor of the mesh multiplied by 100 to get the percentage For example if the object has been scaled to lt 5 0 5 0 5 0 gt the Texture Quality should be 2500 5 x 5 x 100 As a rule of thumb do not scale a
34. iMap shader can create an openGL proxy layer for that surface I ve created an openGL proxy layer but don t see it in the texture layer window it does show in openGL though While the layer has actually been created LightWave3D will not display the layer in the texture list until you close and re open the texture list No image preview in the Modeler when working on the procedural texture Due to a limitation imposed by LightWave 3D the image preview is not available in the procedural texture component of infiniMap 3D when running in Modeler I change the preview resolution but the Preview VIPER doesn t update Sometimes LightWave3D doesn t register the fact that a texture value has been changed Switching the preview resolution is one of those cases If it happens please refresh the preview or VIPER manually 17 February 2008 Version 1 5 Page 26 infiniMap User Manual FAQ Alphabetical Index C KEEN 2p 6 8 14pp 26 CO En EN 1 3pp 7 9 19 22pp Sen EE 1 3 vil 19 22p E Ee 1pp 7 9 19p 24 26 BEE eo 20 24 F Elte 2 7 9 11p 14 18 25 J Ee EE 1pp 7 9 19p 24 26 L Eeer 2p Spp 10p 14 16pp 25p e TE 2 4 14 18 Bopi elle D 6 12 ESES AA EAT EEE S A E EE E EE E cata eens T E A E vii 25 M VOQEOTI EE EE E E ARRENE 8 26 O OPONE EE 1pp v viipp 17 19pp 24 26 lan C EE 2 10p 26 e e 6 8 18 D PRODO OD ore E A oanee epantanndecaeunsadeada eatin E v
35. ials Guts isetianpansanoewunnee dang teneaeeeatenceues 17 24 EECHELEN 3 6p 17 OY NCC EE 6 teil EE 6p 24 ar TT EE 3 6 E ler EE 6p Beete 3 6p 14pp S ETS 2 25 TP St Call 5 CHOI ME 6p T JEE 6 11p 14 V VII E 11 26 17 February 2008 Version 1 5 Page 27
36. le Management library http www littlecms com LittleCMS is distributed under the MIT license The MIT License Copyright c 1998 2003 Marti Maria Permission is hereby granted free of charge to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files the Software to deal in the Software without restriction including without limitation the rights to use copy modify merge publish distribute sublicense and or sell copies of the Software and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so subject to the following conditions The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND EXPRESS OR IMPLIED INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT TORT OR OTHERWISE ARISING FROM OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE 3 J2000 http www j2000 org The T1 and MQ code in the ECW JPEG 2000 SDK is based in part on highly modified versions of sections from the J2000 library From the J2000 website The J2000 codec was written in an effort to produce the cleanest and simplest implementation possible of the JPEG
37. me instances it may be useful to just apply the red channel as a bump map e Luminance The Red Green and Blue Channel balanced to produce the perceptual Luminance based on the SMPTE standard for example This feature also allows you to just use the alpha channel of a RGBA image to mask out other textures for example The channel selector has to do a bit of guessing as to how to interpret the bands channels stored in an image file If there are 3 bands it assumes them to be RGB in that order if there are four it assumes that the fourth band is the alpha channel Single channels are always available as luminance grey scale values Images with three or more channels such as RGB images will also be able to output two additional pseudo channels that infiniMap can generate on the fly These are e Average Just the average of the Red Green and Blue Channel Image Preview Area If you have an image loaded the image preview area will display a small thumbnail of the image If you have no image loaded the image preview area will display the infiniMap logo as well as the version number of infiniMap Note Due to a glitch in the LightWave 3D SDK in Modeler the image preview area is not available for the procedural texture Options If you select the Options tab you will be able to access some bonus functionality of infiniMap The options visible depend on the plugin type some options may not always be available
38. n object in Layout that has the infiniMap texture layer applied to its surface Return Value This option is only available on the procedural texture if the texture is applied to a colour texture layer i e The texture layers that modify the colour of a surface It basically sends the image data differently to LightWave so the result can be used as the source value in a gradient You should not have to activate it unless the infiniMap layer behaves not as expected in conjunction with other layers If you activate Return Value you will be able to enter a colour or percentage depending on the texture layer type just as you can with any other procedural texture Please note that toggling Return Value does not immediately update the user interface You will need to select another layer and then select infiniMap again for the user interface change to show 13 Well at least very close Unfortunately the plugin can only estimate the optimum settings 17 February 2008 Version 1 5 Page 14 infiniMap User Manual infiniMap Shader infiniMap Shader The infiniMap shader provides some additional functionality over the procedural texture mainly UV mapping support which is unfortunately not possible within a procedural texture The shader can also estimate a better quality setting for the image A value of 100 should be the optimum setting in any case Basically all user interface elements starting with the Texture Axi
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40. nfiniMap User Manual Common User Interface Elements Editing Colour Correction The Editing options allow for simple on the 100 0 fly colour correction that is applied to the infiniMap image while rendering 100 0 2 The settings are similar to the ones supplied by LightWave 3D in the images panel 100 0 Brightness 1 0 Changes the brightness of the image At 100 the image is not changed values below that make it darker values above 100 brighten the image Contrast This setting changes the contrast of the image 100 is no change anything below that lowers the contrast anything higher yep you guessed it raises the contrast Hue The Hue setting changes the Hue of the image basically cycling the colours through the colour spectrum It is measured in degrees O is the default A setting of 360 degree is a full circle and the same as 0 Saturation This changes the saturation of the image 100 is the default value at 0 the image will be in greyscales only Gamma This allows you to add gamma to your image To degamma i e remove the gamma of an image you can type in 1 gamma where gamma is the gamma of the image you d like to neutralize i e If your image has was designed for a gamma of 2 2 you can type in 1 2 2 which results in 0 4545 to remove the gamma and linearize the image Invert Invert inverts the colours of the image Default This resets the values to t
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42. pDenEXR images Basically the image gets split up into small tiles that can be read independently of each other The tiles are also stored in different resolutions OpenEXR supports multiple channels and layers per image file as well as 32bit or 16bit float pixels HDR If you select an OpenEXR image as the source for the conversion it will be converted with identical channels and layers but tiled 17 February 2008 Version 1 5 Page 20 infiniMap User Manual Compression OpenEXR offers a variety of compression modes we recommend ZIP Uncompressed Doesn t compress the data at all recommended for highest speeds if the hard drive is fast but also uses the most storage space RLE lossless Compresses the difference between adjacent pixels Fast to compress and decompress but in general only works well for images with large areas of solid colour ZIPS lossless This uses a ZIP type compression scheme to compress one scanline at a time Slow to compress fast to decompress and also offers a fairly high compression ratio ZIP lossless default Just like ZIPS except that it compresses 16 scanlines in one go This results in a slightly better compression compared to ZIPS but also slows down reading single scanlines from an image We recommend ZIP for non grainy images or images with little grain PIZ lossless This is a wavelet based compression scheme that has a compression ratio that is comparable to ZIP
43. r promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS AS IS AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT INDIRECT INCIDENTAL SPECIAL EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES LOSS OF USE DATA OR PROFITS OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY WHETHER IN CONTRACT STRICT LIABILITY OR TORT INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE Acknowledgements Software Design and Development Michael Wolf Management Dagmar Bornemann Documentation and Tutorials Michael Wolf Product Marketing Dagmar Bornemann Original Logo Design Matt Gorner Special thanks go to our team of dedicated beta testers You ve all done a great job and your feedback time criticism and bug hunting skills were invaluable Extra kudos to Phil for proof reading the manual We would also like to thank the teams at NewTek NewTek Europe East View Cartographics and gadget for their kind support We also thank the LightWave community and the members of the LightWav
44. s you to do that without actually Deluxe FLA Ldel creating an openGL proxy layer within Proxy File Name EEGEN LightWave 3D The user interface Load i controls have the same functionality as in the Update Create openGL Preview Layer panel Copy Settings from This control is only available in the texture layer plugin It allows you to copy the applicable settings of a LightWave 3D image layer to the current infiniMap layer It will optionally also convert and load the image texture used by the original image layer This option should help to transition LightWave 3D texture layers quickly to infiniMap layers Low Res Preview Low Preview Previews rendered with infiniMap take a while to start up rendering since infiniMap needs to read the disk based image files for every rendering process This includes rendering the preview sphere in the Surface Editor and VIPER To speed up preview renders you can turn on the Lores Preview option which is active by default It basically reduces the Texture Quality setting by a fixed amount which in turn means infiniMap doesn t need to read as much data from disk for every preview render Final LightWave 3D renders are not affected by this settings at all We recommend you leave Lores Preview on to maximize interactivity while surfacing For fine details or FPrime renders it should be turned off though This menu items toggles low resolution previews for all instances of infiniMap in the
45. s and below have been designed to work exactly the same way as their counterparts in the LightWave 3D image texture layers Please refer to your LightWave 3D manual for more information on those options infiniMap also supports applying the image to other surface channels The controls for that appear at the top of the interfaces The affected channel will also be displayed as the plugin description in the shader plugins list of the surface editor Surface Channel This will open a pop up with all surface channels that can be affected by the shader Invert Just like the LightWave texture layers you may invert the effect of the shader Strength The strength setting allows you to mix the channel value generated by infiniMap on top of the channel value defined by the surface settings 17 February 2008 Version 1 5 Page 15 infiniMap User Manual infiniMap Node infiniMap Node ve infiniGlobe infiniMap 1 mt ooo o0 ooo S The infiniMap Node provides the same image mapping Norm functionality as the shader including support for UV CR maps 100 0 ap EI All relevant inputs are exposed and evaluated once per mars 12k_colortiedest e shaded spot allowing for a fine control of the parameters Gr Bee The outputs are derived from the selected Layer and Channel Colour This output applies the Opacity and the Blending mode to merge the infiniMap image on top of the Bg Colour n If the infiniMap image contains an alph
46. t on load if the source image is not native to infiniMap All image formats that LightWave 3D can read using plugins not including Targa FLX and IFF OpenEXR ECW JPEG 2000 not available on OSX Current Limitations e Only supports ECW JPEG 2000 and tiled OpenEXR images natively The OSX UB does not support ECW JPEG 2000 images Important note for users earlier versions of infiniMap Please re add the infiniMap p plugin file to LightWave using the Edit Plug Ins panel New plugins have been added which will only be visible if you add the plugin again 6 With the exception of the OSX UB version which does not support ECW JPEG 2000 images 7 The OSX UB version does not support ECW JPEG 2000 images 17 February 2008 Version 1 5 Page 3 infiniMap User Manual Setting up infiniMap Setting up infiniMap Installation The infiniMap p infinimap plugin file can Add Plug ins be copied to any directory where you keep your plugins We recommend using a manually created plugin directory to separate third party plugins from plugins shipped with LightWave 3D This will simplify upgrades of LightWave 3D Now use the Edit Plug ins panel alt F11 of the Add Plugins menu item to add the plugin file infiniMap p to LightWave 3D The OSX UB version is named infiniMap plugin LightWave will prompt you that it found 14 plugins in one file To be able to use all features of the plugin you will need to register it wi
47. t we call openGL Preview Layers that reflect the state of infiniMap using standard LightWave 3D texture functions These preview layers are only visible in the openGL view ports and are hidden during renders OpenGL Preview layers are not visible if GLSL is turned on in the OpenGL options of LightWave 3D This menu item allows you to create a preview layer or if you have already done so updates the parameters of the preview layer to those of the current instance of infiniMap infiniMap identifies openGL preview layers by the name of the image file used by the LightWave 3D image texture If it contains the name of the base infiniMap image without the file name extension in both cases it will assume that the layer is an openGL preview layer As an example Assuming your infiniMap image is BlueMarble jp2 infiniMap will accept Proxy_BlueMarble tga or BlueMarble_myProxy omp as a valid name for the proxy image but not My_Blue_Marble_Proxy tga Please note For the creation of an openGL proxy layer to work in the shader you will have to manually activate the texture layers of the surface just click once on the T button next to the base colour of the Surface Unfortunately infiniMap can not automatically do this yet due to limitations of the LightWave SDK Creating an openGL Preview Layer infiniMap Pro Create openGL Preview Layer If no preview layer exists infiniMap will display the Create openGL Preview Layer panel allowing yo
48. th us and then activate it with the activation code we send to you Configure Menus Adding the helper plugins Command Three of the included plugins can be added to the Layout menus Use Edit gt Edit Menu Layout alt F10 to open the Configure Menus panel in Layout SR TTT FL ELF KK hd d dE 0 00 On the Commands list on the left there is a group called infiniMap which contains three commands to launch the infiniMap Browser the Converter or to apply infiniMap Settings to the current Scene You can of course use Edit gt Edit Keyboard Shortcuts alt F9 to assign these commands to keyboard shortcuts Registration Registration for infiniMap WII IARI ap com Once you ve installed the plugin open any object and either apply the infiniMap procedural texture the shader or either of the nodes to the surface The interface Michael wolf controls will be disabled except for a db amp w GbR button asking you to register michael woll db w com You may also launch the Converter or the infiniMap Browser Clicking on the button will open the Registration panel as shown on the left Enter your full name company name if applicable and e mail address Export the registration and attach it to an e mail to registration infinimap com We will mail you an activation code within 24 hours after payment is received depending on the time difference You can now import the keyfile and press OK to complete th
49. the Shader or the Procedural Texture plugin Open infiniMap Converter infiniMap Converter This is a quick way to access the infiniMap Converter from within the Shader or the Procedural Texture plugin Show Image Information Image Information If the user interface displays a preview WURR image this option displays more verbose information about the loaded image This information includes The file name and full path of the image The image format currently only ECW JPEG 2000 or OpenEXR The width and height of the image in pixels as well as the number of bands or channels included in the file The theoretical raw size of the image if it was uncompressed as well as the compression factor of the file The amount of RAM memory currently used by the image Please note since images may be used multiple times the memory is only used once per image 12 Please note the raw image size does not signify how much memory infiniMap will actually use during a render 17 February 2008 Version 1 5 Page 9 infiniMap User Manual Common User Interface Elements Replace Image This option allows you to globally replace the currently visible image A file requester will open to allow you to select a new infiniMap image Update Create GL Layer Update GL Layer Currently LightWave 3D cannot display infiniMap applied images in the openGL preview We have included an automated way to create wha
50. the same projection The number of outputs and their names depend on the loaded image By default it exposes all Layers as well as the Bump Normal output for the first layer By selecting the different layers channels in the user interface and changing the settings of Show Output Show Normal and Show Bump one can change which channels are actually exposed To create an image that can be used with the Extended node we recommend using ProEXR for Photoshop to export a layered OpenEXR image This will then be converted by infiniMap into a tiled OpenEXR image maintaining the layers 17 February 2008 Version 1 5 Page 17 infiniMap User Manual infiniMap Browser infiniMap Browser The infiniMap Browser is a small generic plugin that you can keep open while your work in Layout It allows you to have a quick glance at all infiniMap images currently in use by the scene You can permanently keep this window open while working It also displays some of the options available in the shader texture layer or nodes Options tab allowing you for example to quickly change the quality settings for FPrime renders These options are explained in more detail in the Common User Interface Elements section 17 February 2008 Version 1 5 Page 18 infiniMap User Manual infiniMap Converter infiniMap Converter infiniMap Le Converter 1 5 Win32 Vi Dar The Converter will convert any image that
51. u to create a preview layer as well as a 43200 21600 Pirels 400 CU KAL preview image Deluxe ALA Lal dl Proxy Width Proxy File Name Proxy Height Defines the size of the final image used by the openGL proxy layer These sizes match the texture size options available in LightWave 3D Size Presets There a some common presets for openGL preview textures File Format This is the file format used to save the file to disk Proxy File Name Allows you to change the name of the preview image file Make sure that it contains the name of the infiniMap image as stated further above Currently you will also have to type in the correct file name extension manually this makes no difference to LightWave 3D however 17 February 2008 Version 1 5 Page 10 infiniMap User Manual Common User Interface Elements Use Loaded Image If you activate this button instead of creating a new image file you can use an existing image file that has been loaded into LightWave 3D Image This item allows you to pick a loaded image to use as a preview image instead Please note that the same naming rules apply for the image file for infiniMap to recognize the openGL preview layer Create Proxy Image Create Proxy Sometimes you just wish to create a small version of the currently loaded 43200 21600 Pixels infiniMap image or create a proxy 400 layer manually 200 Create openGL Proxy Image allows size Preset

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