Hi All,
Is there a reason why textures (ie cast aluminium) shows really quite nice in solidworks with real view on, and comes up rather crappy in photoview?
Have the same problem with say brushed alu...
Is there a way to capture the settings the real view uses, and apply the to photoview so the render nicely?
Am I the only one that feels like this about realview textures?
Thanks
Gerard
Depends what version of PV you are using? If you are in 2011 or 2012, there was a change as to the way bump unit was been implemented that we convinced Luxology to change. Before 2011, bump height was somewhat of an arbitrary. From 2011 on, bump height is measured in real world units and this can make a big difference in the way it appears between RV and rendered PV image.
With that said, RV will always look better initially than the PV progressive preview, but Rendered PV should actually look better (more realistic) than RV. remember RV is a GPU "trick" to give a somewhat generic result and is semi-photorealistic. I agree that in a lot of cases, RV looks pretty darn good, but to get true specularity, reflection and bounce PV rendered metals will be more photorealistic.
Perhaps you could post some comparison images?
Regards
Mark
I've recently been experimenting with photoview and I've wondered the same thing about some finishes as well...I'd be interested to see what someone else says