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joseburgos | 14 years ago | 6 comments | 4,043 views

This should come in handy for all of you. It is a model of a flat panel video monitor without a stand. The zip file includes a UV template use as a guide to paint the plastic framing of the monitor. Please use my plastic.jpg as a reference to see what portions of the UV map need to be flipped. I could fix the map to not have to flip certain sections of the image texture but left it this way to make you work a little ;)
The other very important note is not to ever change the texture image using BT layer properties. Doing this will use the new texture for the entire model and not take advantage of the very important aspect of this video monitor and that is a video.
What you would do is overwrite the plastic.jpg image with your own and the video.avi with your own.
The video.avi is one I made a while back.
If you play with the UV template, you can add textures to all sides of the plastic frame. No UV template for the monitors screen since I left the screens UV to be full UV coordinece therefore it always fills the screen with the entire video file.

This was a rough test as I learn how to leverage BT for my purposes so I hope it can be used by you guys in your projects. My future thinking is to create a desktop monitor with stand, desktop PC, keyboard and mouse. Then a laptop. both will have this same UV texturing to allow a video to display on the screen and a separate image for the other parts of the model.

Final notes: To conserve memory, you can lower the size of both the plastic.jpg and the video.avi. Since the model has a UV map, size only matters for how sharp/clear you want your textures. So if the monitor will be up close, then a higher resolution looks better. Far away in the frame and a lower resolution will look good.

Take care,
Jose Burgos
www.burgosfx.com


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Oh and the video.avi file I supplied has audio but not necessary for your projects.

Take care,
Jose Burgos
www.burgosfx.com

joseburgos, 14 years ago

Jose, a really nice and helpful guy. Cheers, keep the good stuffs coming to this community. You are a GREAT GUY

bylaw, 14 years ago

Jose, you must be using a GeForce card.

On ATI cards a black border is visible at the top and right side of the video. This is because ATI cards can't handle non-power of 2 textures.

Powers of 2 are: 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048,... If your texture has a resolution of for example 100 x 100, BluffTitler has to scale it to 128 x 128 because that's the closest power of 2 higher than 100.

Scaling pictures is no problem because that has to be done only once, but when using a movie you have to scale every new frame. This would dramatically reduce rendering speed, so BT simply adds black borders.

Maybe the latest generation of ATI cards no longer has this power of 2 limitation. I don't know.

Solutions include:
-using an FX file that corrects the UV mapping
-using a different model for ATI cards with a different UV mapping
-using a movie file with a power of 2 resolution

michiel, 14 years ago


Yes I do on all my desktop systems. Wow I did not know ATI had this limitation. Even the FireGL cards? I have never owned a ATI card so I will go with your experience on the matter and try and mention from now on that I use a NVidia GPU and performance can vary if not. Like a little disclaimer ;)

Good info Michiel,
Jose Burgos
www.burgosfx.com

joseburgos, 14 years ago

Hi.
I have tried several times to download this show (as zip file). I can save it but when I go back to unzip it says the folder is empty (?).

When I try to repeat the download Winrar asks me if I want to replace the already existing file (?).

Do you recognize this as a known issue and what am I supposed to do?

Working with OS Vista (not by choice).

Thanks.
Utzy

Utzy, 14 years ago

There's nothing wrong with the zip file.

I wonder why you use Winrar for unzipping. Vista has native support for zip files, so there's no need to use a utility like that.

Start Windows Help (press F1 on the desktop) and search for "zip" to learn how to uncompress a zip file.

michiel, 14 years ago


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