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Electronic Actuator

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 6:04 am
by matsta
Hey guys

started up a thread under "off-topic" which had to do with modeling an electrical actuator, BbB showed some interest and managed to model the base, much thanks, not sure if he is going to complete his own but i am most definitely going to finish mine up, using the base that BbB posted. anyway after about 2 hours work today this is as far as i have gotten, in previous renders i added some crappy textures but i felt that the model looks better bare for the moment. helps render times aswell so for now i will leave it bare. I am definitely not the person for texturing this beast. a wide variety of textures are needed of which i can probably accurately duplicate 2. i was hoping to hand the model over to BbB once i was done with it for him to texture but im still not sure weather that is going to be possible "come in BbB".

below is my reference image and below that is my latest output featuring BbB's base (thanks again), still lots of work to come. i am really looking forward to getting this model complete and getting some textures on it :D

anyway thanks for all the kind words and help ono, kosmo and BbB.

greetz
mat

Image

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 6:11 am
by BbB
Good job getting the two bits together. It's reallz beginning to look like the real thing. I'll leave you to it for now and go back to my effeminate interiors, but happy to do the texturing when you're done (if you're not in a hurry :wink: )
Regarding the lighting setup, it's very simple: two big plane meshlights on either side, one with a slight blue, the other red, tint. Don't overdo it, though, or it'll look like the interior of 1970s disco. A very tiny bit of colour that's all.

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 6:20 am
by Kram1032
looks great so far :D

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 6:24 am
by Kosmokrator
what is the real thing??some electic controled pump????

looks very good keep ot up

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 6:25 am
by Kram1032
it's an
Thread Title wrote:electronic actuator

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 6:26 am
by matsta
Hey BbB

yea thanks alot for the compliments, and yay, will definitely hand it over to you for the texturing :D cant wait. there were some obvious differences between the reference and the model in the first uploaded image so i made some changes and will update in about 10 minutes.

once again thanks alot BbB

greetz
mat

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 8:17 am
by zsouthboy
You're making all us weaker modellers look bad! Stop it!

:P

Looks great so far!

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 8:30 am
by matsta
lol zsouthboy hardly :P

moi makes it easy. im actually a rather weak modeller. just spending alot of time ;) thanks for the kind words :D

greetz
mat

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 8:46 am
by matsta
hey guys

ok here is the latest update. everything done up top except for the resevoir thingy ;) gona build that 2moz probably. will integrate laters. gonna leave this scene to render overnight and resubmit 2moz but for now here it is ;)

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 9:24 am
by joegiampaoli
Looking good! 8)
Wait till my 10 minute render in the other post is finished :wink:

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 10:14 am
by matsta
hehe cant wait joe ;) its going to be awesome :P still have no idea how u put all those textures together so quickly ;)

greetz
mat

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 12:31 pm
by CTZn
They are mainly numbers and letters, and anyway I'm certain you must be good at texturing too. Good work so far !

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 3:41 pm
by CoolColJ
looking sweet so far :)

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 8:19 pm
by matsta
Awoken from my deep slumber to find my render lookin good :P one of my favourite things to wake up to ;)

ok so here is the top section done with the resevoir and a few lower level things complete. since i couldnt fully make out what the rubber "gummi" thing on he bottom was i just made it up ;) imo it doesnt look to bad. the render was for 8.5 - 9 hours with 3320 spp. smooooth

hope u enjoy ;)
greetz
mat

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 8:32 pm
by BbB
Fantastic job! Only the cables left to do, basically (ouch! I hate cables).