I've been playing with PhotoView (PV) for a couple of hoursthis morning so my initial comments are based on this and running afew of the files I'm currently testing with 2009 beta.
Realtime Speed: Overall pretty good in realtime (I'm runninga HPxw4600 Quad core with Quadro FX1700 card and XP). Compared toHypershot, very similar.
Interface: I like it. Nice and clean and simple. The select option(already highlighted by default) doesn't appear to do anything.
Rendering Speed: Maybe a bit down on Hypershot (not run head toheads yet) but this is harder to comapre as the rendering settingsare not necesarily the same.
Materials: Great choice, nice interface, easy to apply by dragging,but could do with more dynamic feedback when dragging ontoindividual entities (eg faces should highlight when materials aredragged onto them). Nitpicking - Galvanized has a typo -Glavanized.
Environments: Again nice interface. The backdrop with overheadspotlight one isn't working. Interesting aside - you can drag theenvironments on the objects like the materials yet dragging theenvironments on the background has no effect.
Obviously at the moment a lot of the functionality from menus isn'tactive yet so I'm shooting in the dark a bit here but my mainquestions would be:
1. How do you create your own materials - or is this all done viaSolidWorks?
2. How do you change the perspective of the camera?
3. Can you turn off the HDRI environment and render with the samelighting but to a plain colour background (I think this is animportant one - yes you could montage the image in Photoshop viathe alpha channel but I suspect this product is aimed at users whodon't have Photoshop).
4. Mark I mentioned the photographic background for lining upobjects to a pre-existing background. Again for the intended marketthis would be a great workflow helper.
5. Will there be a way to manipulate the entities aside fromShow/Hide? eg could we move them or utilise the mating from anassembly?
I'm going to get Hypershot installed on this machine as well asthis is the most direct competitor so I can evaluate relativerendering speeds, but yes, first impressions are very favorable.
SolidworksPhotoview 360
Realtime Speed: Overall pretty good in realtime (I'm runninga HPxw4600 Quad core with Quadro FX1700 card and XP). Compared toHypershot, very similar.
Interface: I like it. Nice and clean and simple. The select option(already highlighted by default) doesn't appear to do anything.
Rendering Speed: Maybe a bit down on Hypershot (not run head toheads yet) but this is harder to comapre as the rendering settingsare not necesarily the same.
Materials: Great choice, nice interface, easy to apply by dragging,but could do with more dynamic feedback when dragging ontoindividual entities (eg faces should highlight when materials aredragged onto them). Nitpicking - Galvanized has a typo -Glavanized.
Environments: Again nice interface. The backdrop with overheadspotlight one isn't working. Interesting aside - you can drag theenvironments on the objects like the materials yet dragging theenvironments on the background has no effect.
Obviously at the moment a lot of the functionality from menus isn'tactive yet so I'm shooting in the dark a bit here but my mainquestions would be:
1. How do you create your own materials - or is this all done viaSolidWorks?
2. How do you change the perspective of the camera?
3. Can you turn off the HDRI environment and render with the samelighting but to a plain colour background (I think this is animportant one - yes you could montage the image in Photoshop viathe alpha channel but I suspect this product is aimed at users whodon't have Photoshop).
4. Mark I mentioned the photographic background for lining upobjects to a pre-existing background. Again for the intended marketthis would be a great workflow helper.
5. Will there be a way to manipulate the entities aside fromShow/Hide? eg could we move them or utilise the mating from anassembly?
I'm going to get Hypershot installed on this machine as well asthis is the most direct competitor so I can evaluate relativerendering speeds, but yes, first impressions are very favorable.
SolidworksPhotoview 360
