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04
Jul
2018
How to handle volumetric glass geometry with single sided coloring in Stellar
Posted On 4. July 2018  By 3DEXCITE Product Support - Admin  And has No Comment

When trying to simulate a glass body which is colored from one side (e.g. by a colored foil) it is not recommended to use the material type glass for the side part, since it does not have coating options. Instead, please follow the steps below:

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04
May
2018
“Object (with axis-angle rotation)” animation swings forth and back instead of doing a circular movement
Posted On 4. May 2018  By 3DEXCITE Product Support - Martin Treydte  And has No Comment

When animating a scene object using the “Object (with axis-angle rotation)” animation type with angles of 360° or more it can happen that instead of a circular movement the animation swings forth and back. This happens if you use only three evenly distributed key frames to […]

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04
May
2018
How to figure out the number of frames stored inside a Distributed Stellar batch file
Posted On 4. May 2018  By 3DEXCITE Product Support - Martin Treydte  And has No Comment

To evenly distribute the workload of a Distributed Stellar render job a number of frames needs to be assigned to each render node.

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24
Apr
2018
Switching a variant does not update the preview thumbnail
Posted On 24. April 2018  By 3DEXCITE Product Support - Admin  And has No Comment

When using Refresh previews and switching the variants of e.g. a Look set the preview thumbnail is not being updated with the currently active variant.

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12
Mar
2018
Save for distribution does not create extra textures folder, but puts the textures directly into the same folder as the scene file
Posted On 12. March 2018  By 3DEXCITE Product Support - Admin  And has No Comment

Save for distribution is a function that can save the scene including all textures into one specified folder. However no separate “textures” folder is being created, but the files are put into one folder together with the scene files. Because of this also no texture search […]

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28
Feb
2018
How to create a Video texture animation
Posted On 28. February 2018  By 3DEXCITE Product Support - Admin  And has No Comment

Creating a video texture animation was complicated in current DELTAGEN versions and not supported for Stellar: Make sure nothing is selected in the Scene tree Go to Animation menu > Create animation Choose “Video texture” as type Open the Animations list window Drop the object with […]

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28
Feb
2018
Missing filename for beauty pass images
Posted On 28. February 2018  By 3DEXCITE Product Support - Martin Treydte  And has No Comment

When configuring the “Render export” to render image passes (Passes -> Render passes = active) while also saving the beauty image (Passes -> Render only passes = not active) and setting the output file “Auto-naming” to “Pass name” the resulting beauty image has no filename.

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23
Jan
2018
Interactive texture is missing after installing 3DEXCITESoftware_Setup.exe with /S in silent installation mode
Posted On 23. January 2018  By 3DEXCITE Product Support - Admin  And has No Comment

When installing DELTAGEN via silent installation using /S Interactive texture is not installed.

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16
Jan
2018
Undo does not work for Automatic UV generation
Posted On 16. January 2018  By 3DEXCITE Product Support - Martin Treydte  And has No Comment

The Undo function doesn’t work for Automatic UV generation.

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15
Jan
2018
How to create a 3D note visibility animation
Posted On 15. January 2018  By 3DEXCITE Product Support - Admin  And has No Comment

It is possible to animate the visibility of a 3D note Overlay, by following the below steps:

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