This page updated: September, 2003
GLS TReal glsview
- Activate from Render/GLS Viewer
- use the display icon to View Stepped Tree Level changes (without any leaves, so is faster)
- Activate from loaded file (or other program)
- The activation is much different as the GLS Viewer IS the renderer. In the TReal-POV dll there was an unimplemented Wind parameter... at the bottom of the GLS Viewer are similar controls, though all the Output parameters for the dll are now in the 3D Viewer Menu. The mouse is used to rotate around the tree... or is it rotate the tree around.
- Menu
- File
- Render to Bitmap
- Bitmap (Rendered by GL Software.. may be different than screen)
- Render to AVI (Position Tree FIRST)
- Rotate 360 (Rotate tree 360 degrees)
- De Range (Move Camera back back back)
- Sky Ranger (Static Range degradation into blob)
- Wind Pilot (Blow wind for 360 frames)
- Action
- Cancel the rendering... will cancel AVI production
- Display Cube Axis: Toggle the display of the cube and the Red-Green-Blue Axis... remove to make a image, used to orient when twirling the tree.
- Display Control: Toggle the display of the control panel on the bottom of the form...
- Display Sun Control: Toggle the display of the Sun control panel on the bottom of the form...
- Select Background Color: Paint it Black to use as a Tree Sprite
- Help
- Help... Displays .htm file
- About... Displays information about developers and www.links
- Mouse Movement View of the tree
- Left Mouse button moves Camera around tree: X and Y
- [CTRL] X : Move Tree itself Up..Down
- [CTRL] Y : Move Tree itself Left..Right
- [CTRL] Z : Move Tree itself Forward and back
- Mouse Wheel Zooms In and Out
- Menu Commands Zoom In and Out, Move Up nd Down
- Keyboard Movement View of the tree
- Keyboard: [CTRL] A: In , [CTRL] S: Out
- Keyboard: [CTRL] Z: Up , [CTRL][ALT] Z: Down
glsview
- Check Box Toggles All Animation.
- Range Degradation: Left Check box toggles on/off, Right Check box toggles Static degradation
- Rotation animation: Check box toggles In place rotation
- Wind Animation Check box toggles Wind Animation
- Wind from Direction 0..360
- Slider imitates changing the distance to the tree.
- The tree data is displayed as the text numbers [# of Tree branches] [Total branch vertices] [# of Leaves] [Total Leaf Vertices] [# of Fruit] [Total Fruit Vertices]
- Range degradation is done in Rendering Tree... the Tree Structure data stays intact... so the tree can be viewed up close again.
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Range: 2000-Distance
-Make a Sprite to use for MOST of the range
-Change vertices per stem (Vertices x Range (always > 3)
-Leaf Quality => Range if Active Reducing per range: fewer leaves but they are bigger
-Recompute all new per range change
-NEED a GLS Direct OpenGL renderer Range: make Poly and Leaves into Lines and Points, Wind: Change stem positions.
- Sun Control again.
- Check boxes Toggle Lights.. other controls do not seem to do much
- Sun from Direction 0..360
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© 1991..2003 by Ivan Lee Herring