Diary of a madman!

[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.

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]

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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]

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

Looks good.

[boredjedi]

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

Looks good.

You might have seen a blank spot under the rib cage just before I re-uploaded the image again. I forgot to turn on force 2 sided when I rendered it oppsy. If you leave that unchecked it will only render the outer surfaces and not the inner ones.

Thanks again now I need to seriously get back to finishing this off. :)

[boredjedi]

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Some cool progress. I decided to work on the wing sections while working out the other stuff

[lost4ever]

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This is great stuff! Keep up the good work!! I look forward to seeing more.

[boredjedi]

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This is great stuff! Keep up the good work!! I look forward to seeing more.

Thanks you very much. Yeah, it's starting to finally look pretty cool and more like the airship as I go along.. I just got back home and before I left after I posted that new set of pics above I did some fine tuning on the wing elements. Lined them up better especially the pontoons at the end of the wings and started to shape them. I still need to scale the wings thinner though which I'm about to work on now. Here's everything all in perfect alignment, according to 3dmax grid lines.

First here's just two of the reference pics I've been using so you have an instant comparison on hand:

[boredjedi]

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The first wing sections are coming out rather good as compared to the original. I quite happy with how this is coming along now. Glad I upgraded the computer too. Things have been much more uber fast.

[boredjedi]

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Shaping and reshaping. Working and reworking. Tedious times but it's still fun especially watching this come along and looking more and more like the actual thing. :)

Dealing with rear wing this time. I think I pretty much got all the proportions and angles even better this time around. I left the old rear wing there just to show the comparison to the better wing assembly.

[boredjedi]

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Not bad looking at all I say. Now to work on the smaller two tail wing sections and the top fin section.

[boredjedi]

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Ah the tail section. I was reviewing some lazytown videos I have and looking over the stills I screen captured and can't get a really good look at those little tail wings so I'm going to go on pure guess work in this area based on what I think I see. It was also the last thing I worked on last night. Didn't have any more umph to get started on the top fin.

[boredjedi]

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Got a bit more work done on this model today. Some preliminary work done in the fin section needs a tad more smoothing out and tweaking but the rudder section came out fine.

[boredjedi]

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Got a hold of some plugins today and gave one a whirl (CLOUDS). Don't that just look pretty. :)

Still haven't worked on the model much for the past few weeks. Will be getting back to it asap.

[boredjedi]

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Played around with the sky color. I think that looks much better. I squished the clouds a bit more and scaled the ship bigger with a slight rotation.