The Sentinel

Stur · Post by **Stur** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 11:08 pm

Yes please

BbB · Post by **BbB** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 11:14 pm

Ok. Bear with me. Am at work right now. But I'll post this in the next few days. Possibly tonight.

Headroom · Post by **Headroom** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 11:38 pm

BdB,

I guess this is another MoI model ex/imported into Blender ?

Phantastic work! Yes I am most interested in the metal scratch map! And the one for the plastic as well.

Thanks.

Kram1032 · Post by **Kram1032** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 4:33 am

@ Headroom:

BbB wrote: (Spheres modelled in MoI, landscape in Blender (low-poly volumes with only diffuse maps), rendered in Indigo 09 test 06 The concrete maps come from the amazing cgtextures.com. The scratch map on the black glossy plastic comes from Maximus3D at the Maxwell forum. The scratch map on the metal bits is mine and there's a bit of Blender procedural Stucci around the lens. The HDRI is a free sample from hdrimaps.com. Finally the glare was done in Photoshop to get rid of the red meshlight's depressingly flat feel.

:P

Edit: oh, I forgot to add my crits

So, there we go:

Amazing maps! I love the scratches! very realistic

Imperfections rule!

BbB · Post by **BbB** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 4:50 am

Cheers Kram

Headroom: I can't post the plastic scratchmap cos it's not mine. But you might want to check this here: (http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... hp?t=23509)
I'll upload a zip of the metal scratchmap later tonight though.

Kosmokrator · Post by **Kosmokrator** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 7:36 am

perfect render!

SURFiNG · Post by **SURFiNG** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 8:08 am

BbB wrote:Thanks for that. I'll make sure I do that, though most of the time, my attempts come to nothing. If you like I can post some shots of the model and a few basic explanations about which tools I used and the problems I ran into. Would that help?

Headroom · Post by **Headroom** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 8:29 am

Kram,

thanks for pointig that out

I guess I just could not get my eyes long enough of that phantastic render so that I could read the text associated with it.

I assume I it would also help my attention level if I would stop surfing to the indigo site when I am at work

Go2go

BbB · Post by **BbB** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 9:02 am

Haya,
Here's the scratch map as promised. Homemade from photos. It's tileable, but it's also quite big so you most likely won't need to tile it. As always with scratches, go easy on the bump value.

zsouthboy · Post by **zsouthboy** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 9:06 am

Thanks for the scratch map, BbB.

Looks like you made it in photoshop with "tile"

, right?

BbB · Post by **BbB** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 9:09 am

You guys are real sweethearts.
So here's an exploded version of the round thingy. It's basically a sphere on which I projected a rounded curve. I then used this "curved" curve as a cutting object to split the sphere into two (metal and plastic parts), which I shelled. The front hole in the black plastic bit came next (same procedure, but with a closed rectangular curve as projection). The metal pannels surrounding the lens are cut in a second, slightly smaller sphere modelled inside. All the bevelling came right at the end to avoid bad surprises (don't bevel the faces that don't show as this will really add to the geometry).

BbB · Post by **BbB** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 9:10 am

Yes ZS, it was made in pshop, but with Offset rather than tile. Should I use tile?

SURFiNG · Post by **SURFiNG** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 9:03 pm

mm i know it sounds as a lame request , but i really don't understand some of your passages...
could you use http://www.debugmode.com/wink/download.php (wink) so i can see better what you mean?

BbB · Post by **BbB** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 9:14 pm

I'll try again with a few screenshots. Bear with me for a second.

SURFiNG · Post by **SURFiNG** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 9:18 pm

you know how to make guys happy!

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