Blender + indigo Bioshock Style ((Update on page 4))

Kram1032 · Post by **Kram1032** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 5:13 am

If you use the true atmospheric scattering but add a sea-level with the water material (It's not salt-water but it should be close enough) and some "normal" fog-values inside the building, you should get it as close as possible in Indigo. (Except you find a way to create a tabulated spectral sea-water...)

Borgleader · Post by **Borgleader** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 5:22 am

Kram1032 wrote:If you use the true atmospheric scattering but add a sea-level with the water material (It's not salt-water but it should be close enough)

What do you mean add sea level? Like a displaced plane or something?

Kram1032 wrote:some "normal" fog-values inside the building, you should get it as close as possible in Indigo.

Like this? (sort of)

Kram1032 wrote:Except you find a way to create a tabulated spectral sea-water...

In english please?

zsouthboy · Post by **zsouthboy** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 5:47 am

Actually, that's a good idea Kram - model it just like it is.

Dunno how "deep" to put the building though, or how powerful to make the "moon" meshlight.

@Borgleader: He's saying model the water around the outside of the building, turn on atmospheric scattering, and use a tabulated spectrum'd sea water (I think CoolColJ had one at one point).

Borgleader · Post by **Borgleader** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 6:10 am

Uh ok...Well for now I'm working on a new setup (room). This one has way better windows than the last one, and the metal "structure" around them is based off of a screenshot from the game. They're not exact replicas, but nothing is stopping me from making them better later.

EDIT: Here are some lighting tests. Done with SmartDen's setup. Rendered the 3 of them simultaneously.

Post by **OnoSendai** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 8:26 am

nice atmosphere.. now just throw some big Daddies in there

Borgleader · Post by **Borgleader** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 8:28 am

Hehe thanks. Well I got a lot of help from SmartDen & zsouthboy. But ran into some problems with my new scene (which looks much better that this in my opinion. unfortunately i cant see what it looks like.)

posted the error in the Blendigo v1.1.5 thread.

Kram1032 · Post by **Kram1032** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 8:36 am

It's Moon-lit?
With the atmospheric scattering, you *could* model the moon in correct size and place it on the correct place. It'll reflect sunlight just as in reality.

Though, I guess, that's SO slow, that it wont even look good after three hours on the Renderranch^^

Post by **OnoSendai** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 8:37 am

I don't think moonlight will penetrate several hundred feet down through the ocean

Borgleader · Post by **Borgleader** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 8:38 am

Moon light can be faked though can't it? I meant that's roughly what Smart's setup does.

Kram1032 · Post by **Kram1032** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 8:41 am

It depends on how deep you actually model the ocean... It could be just several fifty feet deep

xD

Also interesting... (ok, getting too crazy now), would be to model the surrounding ocean-landscape, which might change the light situation a bit. (And probably will take even longer xD)

Borgleader · Post by **Borgleader** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 8:43 am

Well in Bioshock it's an underwater city. So if I'm really into it I might try modeling 1-2 maybe more. If I were to do the bottom of the ocean it would be VERY basic and untextured.

Kram1032 · Post by **Kram1032** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 8:45 am

That would be enough, actually

It's just to get some light reflected differently.
Though, what I'm suggesting is ridiculously crazy so I don't think, you really will do it^^

Borgleader · Post by **Borgleader** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 8:48 am

If I was called BbB I probably would but with my limited skills in Blender, it'll either take a REALLY long time or won't happen.

Anyway, if I could just get around the darn runtime error it would actually keep working on this

BbB · Post by **BbB** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 10:27 am

Borgleader
Hey man. Good stuff. But you picked a real hard one to render. This kind of atmospheric scattering really sends render times rocketing. But if you have a few spare dollars, you might want to run it through the ranch. Should do the trick.

Borgleader · Post by **Borgleader** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:42 am

New window setup. More details

Still missing columns but I'm gonna work on that.

The floor tiles are too big, so gotta find a way to make 'em smaller. and...the glass is too reflective, but that's probably due to the light i added inside the room so that i actually could see something. anyway there are quite a few things to fix/improve/add but I'm more content with this setup than the last one.

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