Diary of a madman!

[Ultra Magnus]

Re: Diary of a madman!

I thought I noticed a hole, but then I realised that's where the gondola will be attached.
Disregard. :oops:

Looks good.

[boredjedi]

Re: Diary of a madman!

I didn't mean the actual edges.

I just meant the edges of the colours, like where the red balloons meet the grey framework, and maybe some of the stitch lines.
Standard jpeg noise. Which is why I was agreeing about it looking nuked.
And yeah, I kinda noticed the cross sections, but I assumed that was the same thing.

As I said, it still looks damn cool to me.

Ah yeah good ol' compressed jpeg :) The reason I did that was because I could'nt seem to get back onto my server. I worked it out after I posted that. Here's the png with transparency on:

[Ultra Magnus]

Re: Diary of a madman!

I used a more compressed jpeg this time to keep the file size down and it looks kind of nuked.

It does look a bit funky around the edges, but even so, it still looks great.

Are you referring about the bump mapping near the edges? If so, yeah that's the nature of bump mapping. The depth of the bump relies on light and shade. If there's too much light falling on the texture, the depth of the ridges are lost and it'll look flat. I'll be working on doing displacement mapping while I tinker away on the trim work. Using height maps it'll become part of the texture and does not rely on how the light falls on it.

I also need to smooth out the frame work a bit too. If you look, the cross sections on some just look funky :)

I didn't mean the actual edges.

I just meant the edges of the colours, like where the red balloons meet the grey framework, and maybe some of the stitch lines.
Standard jpeg noise. Which is why I was agreeing about it looking nuked.
And yeah, I kinda noticed the cross sections, but I assumed that was the same thing.

As I said, it still looks damn cool to me.

[boredjedi]

Re: Diary of a madman!

I used a more compressed jpeg this time to keep the file size down and it looks kind of nuked.

It does look a bit funky around the edges, but even so, it still looks great.

Are you referring about the bump mapping near the edges? If so, yeah that's the nature of bump mapping. The depth of the bump relies on light and shade. If there's too much light falling on the texture, the depth of the ridges are lost and it'll look flat. I'll be working on doing displacement mapping while I tinker away on the trim work. Using height maps it'll become part of the texture and does not rely on how the light falls on it.

I also need to smooth out the frame work a bit too. If you look, the cross sections on some just look funky :)

[Ultra Magnus]

Re: Diary of a madman!

I used a more compressed jpeg this time to keep the file size down and it looks kind of nuked.

It does look a bit funky around the edges, but even so, it still looks great.

[boredjedi]

Re: Diary of a madman!

Phew that was a close one. With the new computer and leaving my old cd burner out. I messed up the drive letter assignments and the new max9 was looking for my textures and things in the then J: drive. Luckily I had installed a hex editor and went through the save file changing the J: to E: and it worked. Woot. This is the first render with all the new equipment and it went dang fast. Now that everything is back in place and where it belongs, off to do the trim work.

Don't worry about the quality of that image. I used a more compressed jpeg this time to keep the file size down and it looks kind of nuked.

[boredjedi]

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i just showed a friend of mine all your work. she thinks you kick ass, too :)

Well thank you again and her as well. I'm almost there. I installed the latest Adobe premiere and 3d max last night. All that's left for me to install now is the latest Photoshop which I'm going to do in a little bit. Then it's back to the modeling grind stone. :)

[LTgirl]

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i just showed a friend of mine all your work. she thinks you kick ass, too :)

[boredjedi]

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Soon my friends soon I'll be back into my kick butt mode on this. Already a week lost on getting this new system up and running. I was also working rather juggling on a presentation for the doctor I work for for an upcoming lecture he has this coming week while trying to get this system up. Simply fun I tell you the pressure! :)

[Mr_Gazpacho]

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Well, the file was saved on my now fried C drive, so at the moment I've given up.

[Ultra Magnus]

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Hey, here's a question for you Mr. Jedi, sir (and Mr. Gaz, assuming he hasn't given up on Pixel).
Seeing as you put so much effort into making the airship texture look so good...

Will you be going for the fuzzy puppet skin, or are you thinking along the lines of "the puppets are meant to be representations of people anyway", and therefore will be equipping them with a texture that is closer to the human hide?

[LTgirl]

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*waits patiently for more progress...* ;)

[Ultra Magnus]

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You, sir, are an hero.

Please don't an hero BJ.

Ah, go on.
All the cool kids are doing it.

[boredjedi]

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Oh well, I'm busting to get working on this model again but still waiting for my power supply so I can get my new rig up and running. Got the old rig on a bare windows install no sense in going all out with everything yet.

[boredjedi]

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You, sir, are an hero.

So how's it coming along, or did you just give up a month ago?

Nah didn't give up. Well I was working on it off an on. Been feeling like crap for weeks and had a bad episode last week not am kinda off cigs. I'm more determined than ever to finish this puppy up.