TR's Third Dimension v1.7.13+ (Aug 30th, 2015 )

[TechnoRobbo]

TechnoRobbo's Third Dimension

Turn 2D Images into 3D Images and Terrains

(Brightness becomes the Third Dimension)

from a suggestion by Pratyush

Special Thanks to Red Ochre for his assistance in testing and his great suggestions

V 1.7.13+ Fixes Render Queue Backlog

V 1.7.12+ uploaded to trap a small height map bug.

Version 1.7.11+ adjusted for 144 DPI 

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Version v1.7.9.12090 Haze is now independent of Light and Shadow

Version 1.7.9+ Token Fix

Versio 1.7.8+ replaces Sliders with trackbars (sliders have inherent bug)

Depth of field optimized

Versio 1.7.5+ includes Ray Traced Shadow Casting, Fog/Haze and Depth of Field - smaller interface for netbooks.

also includes repeating textures (tiling) and highlight control.

Tiling is Red Ochre's idea and it looks really cool

Ray Tracing is a slow process but yields very realistic results

v1.6.0.+ New Controls .

v1.5.5+

Enhanced setting (Squash/Stretch,How Far & Brigthness, Smoother shading)

V1.5.0+

Very Realistic Shading

Shading check box is removed (Red's suggestion)

Hemisphere Sun control

V1.4.6+

1. Transparency of the texture now incorpotaed with the transparency of the Height Map 

2.Lo-Rez Preview now scales with the size of the height map for even faster previews.

(As I've stated before the best Height maps are 1600X1200 pixels or larger, if you have an 800X600 Height map resize it for smother images)

3. Sun position was not rendering when mouse was moved beyond border of the control -(fixed)

4. Solid Polygon Threshold increased (fixes potential of holes in image)

v1.4.0.+

fixes rotation scale bug

adds inverted heightmaps (thank you Pratyush)

adds high-speed preview (thank you Red Ochre) 

v1.3.1+fixes reset default bug

v 1.3.0+  Rotation!!!!!!!!

v 1.2.0.8444 Minor fix to Light and Shadow slider

v 1.2.0.+ Enhanced Light and Shadow Control

v 1.1.0 adds particle render

V 1.0.4+ Allows you to reset defaults and fixes the stop button

v1.0.3+ fixed large maps issues

v1.0.2+ 3D Render Engine has been accelerated

One important issue that I need to bring up - 8 bit indexed images shouldn't be used as the Map file

V1.01- Will check and warn you if the Image is indexed . Always save as 32 bit even if it's B&W.

Menu:  Effects ->Render

https://www.dropbox.com/s/f3z9svtyk7b3zul/ThirdDimenMenu.png?raw=1

Rotation demo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSZErub3QY8

High SPeed Preview and inverted Map Demo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic0rEu9035I

New Shading system

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyTqu6T10dI

The Uncanny Valley

NASA can u hear me?

StarFish

Halloween 2112

Cinnamon Desert

Tidal Wave

Square Circle

Hazy and Fuzzy

When it comes to height maps, size does matter.

VS Source Code for Programmers

TRsThirdDimension.zip

[Pratyush]

Thanks TR. I will post some image after trying it on my PC.

[Goonfella]

Looks fascinating. Will have to try this one out. Great music too!

[Rei]

2 thumbs up, TR!

[DrewDale]

Excellent plugin, cheers TR

[nitenurse79]

Great image Drew. This plugin is amazing, thank you Mister Techno Robbo

[TechnoRobbo]

Thank you Pratyush for the suggestion.

Thanks Goonfella and Rei

DD Nice , is that a selfie?

A very colorful mesh Miss Nite Nurse 79!

[Red ochre]

Absolutely Brilliant!
Really extends Pdn's capabilities (deserves a 'pin' IMHO).
Great tutorial video.
Very impressive images by Drew and NN79 too.

Here's one I made earlier (TR kindly let me test this before release).
http://i.imgur.com/zh1hzH2.png

[mottoman]

What a fantastic plugin and some stunning examples here too. Thanks so much TR Have a beer 

This was originally a phone.

[Seerose]

TechnoRobbo! That result of yours is great and they are all amazing. Thank you sooo much for this plugin, for the video and music.     

 

[TechnoRobbo]

My mind is still blown by that image Red, Thanks for all your help.

Great work Motto and Seerose!! Oops I'm out of reps

 

 

FYI-

I see everyone's using Meshes - The Texture Selection will make the object Solid.

[Pratyush]

Thanks TR.

 

Another awesome plugin by you ( after random shape filler). I hope this will be very useful, especially for those who use paint.net for make illustrations for games  etc. 

 

@NN , @Seerose, @DD awesome illustrations

 

@Red , Mind Blowing image!!! Can't imagine how did you made this. This plugin can make a lot of stuff. I will need some time to get used to this.

 

 

Just a few tips I will like to give for using this plugin

 

1. This plugin can load textures and height map independent from each other but you can achieve special effects if you use same image as texture and its black & white version as height map. In other way, you can have textures dependent to the height map. It can help in having different type of texture and color for different height in 3D render.

 

2. The plugin has Tilting capability but it doesn't rotate render sideways. That's because gray-scale image (black n white height map) can be rotated itself by user. So, it is advisable to open height map in another PDN tab and manipulate it as needed. We can rotate height map, apply some adjustment to it and manipulate it. Save the height map in other tab and run the plugin again.

 

3. Texture isn't the only thing that you could use with height map. You can use it like Shape3D plugin, and 3D Object plugin from evan's pack. By this plugin, you can map(or wrap) an image in those complex patterns which are not possible in these plugins. For applying the effect for a layer use TR's export selection to save layer (or any way you think of saving a layer separately) and then use this saved layer as texture for height map while running plugin.

 

4. Well height map can be colorful also. You can also use colorful images in height map and render it with mesh selection.

 

Have fun :D

Edited October 17, 2014 by Pratyush

[sashwilko]

Thank you for this plugin TechnoRobbo I used texture and got a metalic hand.

 

Really good images from everyone too.

[Pixey]

Don't you ever sleep Mr Plug-in generator?  Amazing stuff - how you do it is really intriguing.  Wow - beautiful images from everyone, each one different in every way.  Apologies as mine is a little simple in comparison .

 

[TechnoRobbo]

Thanks for the tips Pratyush

Sasha and Pixey awesome work!!!! ( I wish I had more reps to give today   )

[Goonfella]

I have a problem with the plugin. I downloaded and installed it but when I try to use it the UI appears as it should with my chosen image showing but none of the controls work. I can`t adjust anything or tick any boxes . The only things that do work are the OK , Cancel or the red `x' at the top right hand corner. Very strange.

 

 

I have just had a thought. Does this plugin require a dedicated graphics chip to work? I only have integrated and I know how limiting that can be with 3D work. I had to give up on Blender, Sketchup and Terragen because of this crappy laptop.

Edited October 16, 2014 by Goonfella

[Red ochre]

Hi Goonfella,

You need to press the 'get height map' button before the other controls become useable.

[Lloyd]

WOW! An absolutely brilliant plugin TechnoRobbo, with some outstanding images here. Thanks indeed for your brilliance.

 

This just had to be done as a tribute

 

[DrewDale]

To agree Lloyd. Some high quality images posted on here a candidate for plugin of the year ? another tough vote this year

 

@TR - A selfie it was, went from "hunk" to "Junk" in a few mouse clicks

[Goonfella]

Hi Goonfella,

You need to press the 'get height map' button before the other controls become useable.

 

Thanks Red. Should`ve paid closer attention to the video!

 

Great images posted and all so quickly! Sign of a really great plugin.

Here is mine, called Cabbage Patch for obvious reasons.

 

[Red ochre]

I'm back for seconds!
with some custom random shape fill flowers thrown on top.

[skullbonz]

Cool plugin TR, I can see many possibilities with this. Here is my first play around with it, Red's Cobweb spiders in TR cages.    

 

 

 

All the images are great but Goonfella takes the prize with his Cabbage Patch, awesome image,looks like an alien patch.  

Edited October 16, 2014 by skullbonz

[TechnoRobbo]

Thanks for coming to GoonFella's aid, Red. I knew you were going to master the 3D, I could tell by your test images. Cool Village.

 

Very Cool Llyod thanks for the tribute.

 

Awesome, Goonfella!!! What was the base image? Wait don't tell me that's like spoiling a magic trick.

 

Cool concept Skully, I'm liking the variety of the art.

[Pratyush]

Don't you ever sleep Mr Plug-in generator?

 

 

Pixey, I also thought in same way.

 

I requested this plugin telling my ideas to TR. He really made this plugin in a single week. Surely, he works with speed of light.

[Goonfella]

Thanks TR. The real magician is you for coming up with this awesome plugin. My magic trick pales in comparison.