3 dimensions.

[Urban3300]

I challenge you to create something new using the 3 dimensions, something that no-one has ever seen in these forums.

I will start by showing you these pictures I created using 3dsMAX.

http://www.zgeek.com/uploads/Teqmart.jpg

http://www.zgeek.com/uploads/RingMart.jpg

(I know the glass doesnt look realistic)

[SamBo]

dude, those look fucking cool!

[utopian]

good shit

but i have a feeling we've seen those objects before

[Urban3300]

Originally posted by Utopienne
good shit

but i have a feeling we've seen those objects before

Not in these forums, maybe in #zgeek. Anyway they were the old versions, those are new improved ones.

Oh and thanks SamBo :)

[Turtle_Wrangler]

I did a quick render of my friend's pencil and paper, fat-stick-figureish comic superhero, super oscar,and yes, he's supposed to look cartoony. as mentioned before, he's a comic charachter.
In other news, i hate blender... i should get 3DSMax
http://www.zgeek.com/uploads/SO3D.jpg

(my 3d 5k1LL5 are un1337, laugh away.)

[Grumblefish]

Looks like poorly done 3d objects on a table resting in a Kings Quest 3 background. I couldn't do any better though.

[utopian]

http://www.brisgeek.com/taco.jpg

brisgeek's taco

done last night after a big night

[BrisGeek]

man i was wasted

[Urban3300]

Originally posted by BrisGeek
man i was wasted

You need to get wasted more often, lookin' good Mr. B!

[BrisGeek]

thanks, but i was so wasted.. my effort was lame .. i couldnt even type cause i couldnt feel my fingers



http://www.brisgeek.com/mesh.jpg


mesh i just made while chattin on Zgeek

might do something to it tomorrow

[have_blue]

I dont think anything like this has been posted before for the simple fact that it's so boring.
http://www.zgeek.com/uploads/mount_it.jpg

[Urban3300]

Okay, here's a lighter I did. This is only a small part of a bigger scene I'm making :) So that means that I'm gonna post more...soon.
http://personal.inet.fi/musiikki/puostraxx/3D/LighterBetter.jpg

And Have_Blue, that doesn't look boring, this place needed some scenic views.

[have_blue]

Ok well she is finally done! My 3D character is being rendered as i type. only 57 minutes left on a 7 second animation. Damn my huge textures.
i cant upload the movie cus, well, its about 60 megs. no shit. like i said. HUGE textures.
I'll put up some stills later tonight.

[geggle]

Originally posted by Urban3300
Okay, here's a lighter I did.Hmm... looks great, except that the flip-top of the lighter doesn't look quite right... I think the angle between it and the lighter itself is a bit wrong, or the angles on the side edges are wrong. It just looks to me like the top has been done as a rotated distortion of a "ring".

But anyway... I couldn't possibly produce anything anywhere near as good as that.

[have_blue]

OK, well it is FINALLY here. after waiting 4 hours for a 14 second animation to render it is finally done. i've compressed it down from the original 200 megs to a tiny 1.7megs so go download it and tell me what you think. and yes i know her pants dont work quite right but i am honestly so fed up with it i just dont care any more. well. i do but its pissing me off right now.

Download - >Movie (http://www.angelfire.com/realm/twosdm/files/rcolli10_test.avi)

[utopian]

it's a redhead who walks like she's still got her dildo in ;)

[have_blue]

Kinda like you huh?
:P
hehehehe. She's SUPPOSED to be doing a sexy catwalk walk.

[utopian]

Originally posted by have_blue
Kinda like you huh?
:P
apart from the following facts:
a) i'm not a redhead
b) i don't own a dildo
c) i'm not a girl
d) i'm not a computer animation

but yeh, apart from that, right on the money HB ;)

[Urban3300]

What can I say? Two torusknots and a cylinder.
Here is the picture (http://personal.inet.fi/musiikki/puostraxx/3D/Torussmooth.jpg)

[Urban3300]

After seeing the Warner Bros. logo in Terminator 3 (http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/t3/) , I thought I might give it a try and do a WB logo myself. So here it is:
http://personal.inet.fi/musiikki/puostraxx/3D/icebros.jpg

The shadows in W&B are fubar, I tried only once to make them better but the rendering time was a bit long so I got tired of doing it.

[have_blue]

Nice!
i like the glass sorta ring bit, though the chrome needs some more work.

[sagit]

kinda looks like a police badge. the torii (:p) and cylinder is rooly kewl. :D

[BrisGeek]

http://andy.fitzsimon.com.au/couple.jpg
no appologies to those on 56k i just got my 3gb cap on optus

[scathing]

Originally posted by Utopienne
it's a redhead who walks like she's still got her dildo in ;)

Her walk reminds me of the girl in this movie.

http://www.haven.org/~hauman/InfinityDog/technicalvirgin/future.mov

(I think its this one, the download is bloody slow and I haven't visited the site in a while)

Full site at:

http://technicalvirgin.com/

[BrisGeek]

ahh i dont like those two shady characters.

the polygon strudcure in their faces is beyond screwed.. im gonna hafa re do- their heads completley ... but im too lazy so meh... i'll just call them the bald ugly couple for now

[PooJooce]

http://www.paulbdesign.com/lightwave/biro04.jpg
it's biros!

[Urban3300]

Care for a game of chess?

http://personal.inet.fi/musiikki/puostraxx/3D/chess.jpg

[FireHart]

Nice urban u finally made it. Took ya what, 3 days? Looks fine all the way.

[Deimos]

Originally posted by have_blue
OK, well it is FINALLY here. after waiting 4 hours for a 14 second animation to render it is finally done. i've compressed it down from the original 200 megs to a tiny 1.7megs so go download it and tell me what you think. and yes i know her pants dont work quite right but i am honestly so fed up with it i just dont care any more. well. i do but its pissing me off right now.

Download - >Movie (http://www.angelfire.com/realm/twosdm/files/rcolli10_test.avi)


Windows Media player won't play it!!! :( Boo Hoo!! :( Do I need some spechl codec or something? If so, what is it?!?!

[Lurkers]

Originally posted by Urban3300
Care for a game of chess?

http://www.zgeek.com/uploads/chess.jpg
:D
Your chessboard is setup wrong:

Bottom left corner from white's perspective is always black.

This means the queens are on the wrong coloured squares. Fix the first and the second is fixed :p



Other than that - I like!

[Urban3300]

Originally posted by FireHart
Nice urban u finally made it. Took ya what, 3 days? Looks fine all the way.

I don't know how long it took but not 3 days lol. I was sleeping while it was rendering it.

[Urban3300]

Originally posted by Lurkers
:D
Your chessboard is setup wrong:

Bottom left corner from white's perspective is always black.

This means the queens are on the wrong coloured squares. Fix the first and the second is fixed :p



Other than that - I like!

What can I say...no-ones perfect. I'll fix it later then.

[sagit]

Originally posted by Lurkers
:D
Your chessboard is setup wrong:

Bottom left corner from white's perspective is always black.

This means the queens are on the wrong coloured squares. Fix the first and the second is fixed :p



Other than that - I like!

The other thing wrong is the quote. It should be "Would you like to play a game of chess?" - "2001: A Space Odyssey" (or was it wargames?)

:D

[a|A]

WIP
http://images.deviantart.com/large/indyart/indymisc/Pills-Work_in_Progress.jpg

[Urban3300]

Finally! Looks nice man, any chances of getting that bigger?

[a|A]

Originally posted by Urban3300
Finally! Looks nice man, any chances of getting that bigger?
:P Finally ... pfft ...

Yeah, I've got a larger version ... 1152x864 ... contact me if you want a copy.

I'm looking through my hdd for more Renders , cant find anything really good to put up - most of my stuff is abstract 3d art, but I'll find something, give me a few minutes

[a|A]

Just to please Urban -

Here are two crappy ones from the days of yore -

http://members.optusnet.com.au/tomgupper2/images/Smash.jpg
http://members.optusnet.com.au/tomgupper2/images/syringe2.jpg

[have_blue]

Originally posted by Deimos
Windows Media player won't play it!!! :( Boo Hoo!! :( Do I need some spechl codec or something? If so, what is it?!?!

Tis DivX i think. so you'll need the codec. How else do you think i got 200 megs down to 1 and a bit?

[Urban3300]

Hehe, those aren't crappy a|A. I like the caustics in the first picture.

[PooJooce]

http://www.paulbdesign.com/lightwave/coins-wood2sml.jpg

[ibanez37]

where did u learn 3ds urban?

[pleed]

http://www.zgeek.com/uploads/pdl3D.jpg

[utopian]

http://www.photon.at/~werner/light/escher/cube-anim.gif

[scathing]

This might be of interest to 3D modellers.

http://www.pandromeda.com/page/products/

They make fractal modelling programs.

I've been going through their stills gallery (http://www.pandromeda.com/page/galleries). In most cases I prefer Terragen's "look", but its not bad.

They've also got a program for generating animations.

Unfortunately the demo can't be used to save. :(

[Up_All_Night]

Originally posted by pleed
http://www.zgeek.com/uploads/pdl3D.jpg

everytuime i saw this post i thought of posting a similar piece of 3d art, lol

[Urban3300]

Originally posted by ibanez37
where did u learn 3ds urban?

By doing tutorials and exploring the possibilities.

Hey pleed, can you do a tutorial for me. I cant really figure out how to do that cool cube :D

[Urban3300]

Originally posted by PooJooce
there is no chocolate inside
Aww man, can you do a chocolate coin? Anyway the coins look good. Hmm, maybe some reflective caustics...

[Deman]

http://members.optushome.com.au/demanufacturer/jpg/bleho0o0o00o0o.jpg

[pleed]

Originally posted by Urban3300
By doing tutorials and exploring the possibilities.

Hey pleed, can you do a tutorial for me. I cant really figure out how to do that cool cube :D

Cool Cube Tutorial

1. Draw a 2d square.
2. Draw another 2d square overlapping the 1st one.
3. Connect the corners of square 2 with the adjecect coreners of square one.
4. Put some clouds in and sky in the background.

As you can see, I only got to step 3.

[PooJooce]

chocolate coins would be good... caustics on my celery 600... perhaps not.

made a moofie though.. and it did take 3 days so don't tell me whats wrong with it cos I'll cry.
skimmer movie (http://paulbdesign.com/lightwave/new-sky-engines-divx502.avi)

[Urban3300]

There is a sword in the scene I know ]-[Å®ÐRøçK would like but unfortunately you can't see it because the cave is too dark (So why even mention it? Because I couldn't think of anything else to say).
http://personal.inet.fi/musiikki/puostraxx/3D/scave2.jpg

[]-[Å®ÐRøçK]

That scene is ubercool Urban...and with the addition of a sword, well, that just makes it one of the best damn renders I've seen in a while ;)

[Urban3300]

Here's a wallpaper for you ]-[Å®ÐRøçK. <The Cave> (http://personal.inet.fi/musiikki/puostraxx/3D/Swordcave3.jpg)
Does anyone have any suggestions...like should I add more objects like a treasure chest or tropical fish perhaps?

[utopian]

tropical fish in a subterannean cave?

maybe some sort of crocodile

[Urban3300]

Crocodile has too many polygons :D. And why couldn't there be tropical fish in that cave?

[utopian]

because the water temperature and the amount of sunlight would be all wrong.

unless you put some sort of glowing orb in the water

[have_blue]

I wish i had my 3D stuff working right now. :( but i'm at my parent place for christmas and my computer had a big nasty and i had to format. And i don't have my program CD's with me.
But as soon as i go back to my place, i'll be doing a rather lot of 3D work.

[FireHart]

What do you think about my 3ds max 5 - skills?

http://www.zgeek.com/uploads/Medicinebottle.jpg

"Wanna drugs?"

[have_blue]

After much moaning and searching i finally got my hands on a copy of 3DSMax 4 from one of my mates up here in QLD. YAY!
Anyway, this morning i was watching a Zoids episode and got inspired and started designing my own. After all, who wouldn't want to design thier own giant robot.
So after many hours of drawing, scribbling, erasing and swearing i had a picture i was happy with and started modelling it.
And here is a little teaser render of one of the sides with a texture idea i've been playing with.
http://www.zgeek.com/uploads/zoid_render5.jpg

[BrisGeek]

http://www.brisgeek.com/xmas.jpg


this time i was slightly tipsy after 9 beers no spirits..
urban suggested i do something for xmas. here you go

[Urban3300]

That is a nice looking christmas decoration. I was going to do something too but 3ds max started acting weirdly so I couldn't render anything.

[Urban3300]

http://personal.inet.fi/musiikki/puostraxx/3D/ItalianDinner.jpg
Since christmas is over I decided not to make a christmas related picture so I came up with this. I know a rose in that picture would be very nice so maybe I will model it later.

[pleed]

here is one of my old ones

http://www.zgeek.com/uploads/gollum3.jpg

Note: I did not steal this, I made it myself :D

[Urban3300]

Why don't you actually try to DO something for a change instead of wasting space like that, pleed.



And I made a wallpaper size of the scene that is right here. (http://personal.inet.fi/musiikki/puostraxx/3D/tworings.jpg)
(I don't know what the black shit in the picture is)

[Urban3300]

I present you the Planet of D00000000M!!!!!!11 (http://personal.inet.fi/musiikki/puostraxx/3D/Apocalypsenow.jpg) and the Apocalypse (http://personal.inet.fi/musiikki/puostraxx/3D/doom.jpg) . Any suggestions and comments are welcome.

[thingy]

Planet of doom is AWESOME. Apocalyps, the earth is a little blurry. Is it like that on purpose to simulate it shaking in fear? :P

[Urban3300]

It is blurry/shaking because there is a special "clouds sphere" which the athmosphere is kind of "reflecting" so you see two layers of clouds........"which is nice". (I'll try to fix it soon)

[scathing]

Originally posted by thingy
Apocalyps, the earth is a little blurry. Is it like that on purpose to simulate it shaking in fear? :P

Urban3300 shall not shake in fear.
Shaking in fear is the mindkiller.

:)

[Urban3300]

Originally posted by PooJooce
chocolate coins would be good... caustics on my celery 600... perhaps not.

made a moofie though.. and it did take 3 days so don't tell me whats wrong with it cos I'll cry.
skimmer movie (http://paulbdesign.com/lightwave/new-sky-engines-divx502.avi)

That movie clip...it is excellent! I like the reflections in the sky-engine and the Playboy bunny...hehehe, nice one. How about a short tutorial on how you did it?

[DrDivad]

behold!

work in progress though i haven't worked on it for about a year

and i know of the weird scratch lines on the heatsink, i was inexpereienced at the time and have not yet bothered to repair it,

http://www.zgeek.com/angrytr0wners/images/powersupplyWIP.jpg

[Urban3300]

W000T! I want more of that. That is one of the most realistic works I have seen in a while. That is uberschweet! :D

[prong]

more pictures divad
you have heaps more, ive seen them, so post them!

[have_blue]

leave the scratch marks. makes it look more like machined metal.

[a|A]

I got 3dsmax

its kewl

likea fox

Working on it now...

http://images.deviantart.com/large/indyart/abstract/EXPERIMENTATION_2_-_aA.jpg

[a|A]

http://thumbs.deviantart.com/300W-96A096/large/indyart/3d/What_Dreams_are_Made_of.jpg

Full Size : http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/1187238

[have_blue]

Just gonna boast abit.
I now have, in my hand, right now, a retail version of 3D Studio Max 5.
On your knees heathens!
ok. now that's out of my system, anyone got any ideas what i could do with it? (besides the obvious "Shove it where the sun don't shine!")

[MisterBishi]

Copy it and sell it on eBay.

[utopian]

Originally posted by have_blue
anyone got any ideas what i could do with it? (besides the obvious "Shove it where the sun don't shine!")
umm... no, that's about it really.

[a|A]

um

install it ?

[sagit]

Originally posted by a|A
http://thumbs.deviantart.com/300W-96A096/large/indyart/3d/What_Dreams_are_Made_of.jpg

Full Size : http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/1187238

is that thing a bucket? (and more importantly, what's in it?)

[huwbacca]

Originally posted by sagit
what's in it?)
looks like polaroid film to me.

[Urban3300]

a|A, might I suggest some more segments on the sphere thing?The large picture in deviantART looks a bit edgy.

[Lucan]

Well, having not touched 3DS for about 3 years, i thought id give it a quick go and see what I could do... This is part of the animation...so here it is.....

http://www.geekpit.co.uk/forumimages/zgeek.jpg

[Urban3300]

I'd like to see the animation Lucan. You could add some engine glow in the turbines... ;)
http://personal.inet.fi/musiikki/puostraxx/3D/Iceblock.jpg
Nothing special in this picture, just experimenting with metals and glass.

[DrDivad]

here some old and new

http://www.zgeek.com/gallery/uploads/Full_Duron
http://www.zgeek.com/gallery/uploads/Power_Supply_Now_With_Increased_Capacity_1024x768
http://www.zgeek.com/gallery/uploads/Silvia_12_002_45
http://www.zgeek.com/gallery/uploads/Space_Debris_640x480
http://www.zgeek.com/gallery/uploads/Splinefighter_1280x1024
http://www.zgeek.com/gallery/uploads/Weebl
http://www.zgeek.com/gallery/uploads/Tentacle_Beast_1024x768
http://www.zgeek.com/gallery/uploads/The_Bomb_640x480

enjoy

EDIT: Should be fixed now

[druid]

None of them work btw.

[DrDivad]

godamn they worked on my friends puter,

oh well i'm too lazy to fix, they
're all old anyhow,
i haven't done jack in terms of new stuff lately, no inspiration,

[have_blue]

I'm just starting on a VERY BIG project. a short 3D film. it's still in the concept stages at the moment. But when it's done, it's gonna rock.

[Nalixor]

Originally posted by PooJooce
chocolate coins would be good... caustics on my celery 600... perhaps not.

made a moofie though.. and it did take 3 days so don't tell me whats wrong with it cos I'll cry.
skimmer movie (http://paulbdesign.com/lightwave/new-sky-engines-divx502.avi)

that f'ing rocks, man. I love it. 'specially that playboy bunny logo on the skimmer. :p

[Urban3300]

Here is a picture of an unfinished scene...stupid 3dsmax is giving me nothing but application errors so I cant finish the scene.

http://personal.inet.fi/musiikki/puostraxx/3D/Teamap.jpg

[Buffy]

ahhh so this is why you needed the maps ;) looks cool dude :D

[have_blue]

mmmmmm, maps. GIMME GIMME GIMME.:D

[DrDivad]

http://www.zgeek.com/gallery/uploads/RealWorld

Somethign i whipped up the other day,

don't ask for any meaning in the text, it seemed good at the time,
i'm not happy with the stars, seems perty tricky you render some nice looking stars

[utopian]

you can't see that much of the planet at once.

[DrDivad]

.....it's a planet....thats what they look like front on.

I don't have eyes that can see 'around' things..or are you saying you rather see a different continental angle or something..i'm a lil' confused

[have_blue]

Originally posted by DrDivad
.....it's a planet....thats what they look like front on.

I don't have eyes that can see 'around' things..or are you saying you rather see a different continental angle or something..i'm a lil' confused

It's not possible to see the whole of Africa and South America at the same time, they are almost on different sides of the globe.
maybe make the sphere smaller, or make the image larger, that might fix it up.

[DrDivad]

ahhh quit your whingin' a big ball of blue is boring...(fear my alliteration) i remodeld the earth to make it more interesting

[utopian]

looking at the other side of your earth would be looking like a big ball of blue.

[Urban3300]

Here are my versions of the Earth.
http://personal.inet.fi/musiikki/puostraxx/3D/EarthFlare.jpg

Another one here. (http://personal.inet.fi/musiikki/puostraxx/3D/Earthfin.jpg)

[DrDivad]

meh...i like mine...screw reality

[Urban3300]

Just testing various materials on classic teapots of 3D studio MAX.
http://personal.inet.fi/musiikki/puostraxx/3D/CausticsTeapot.jpg
(W00T! The 100th post)

[utopian]

nah, it's the 100th reply. therefore the 101st post.

[DrDivad]

the 1st post counts.....until you replied there was 100 posts in the thread.....so he was right

[utopian]

this is the 104th post, the 103rd reply. go to the index for this section, where it has a number around 100 on this thread click it, it'll bring up a list of people who have posted, and up the top it says "TOTAL POSTS".

[DrDivad]

so i see....

i only have this to add....YOU ARE!

[DrDivad]

http://www.zgeek.com/albums/uploads/Deck_Chair.sized.jpg

Got Chair?

[Urban3300]

Well done. I like the plastic material on the legs and the reflection on the floor.
Can you do a leather chair with a cup holder and a footstool? :) That'd be cool.

[Jaemus]

here's an alloy wheel i rendered,
its not entirely constructed by me, but i worked it over good, it was orignally an audi TT rim

just need some much higher res textures

[Maestro]

Originally posted by PooJooce
chocolate coins would be good... caustics on my celery 600... perhaps not.

made a moofie though.. and it did take 3 days so don't tell me whats wrong with it cos I'll cry.
skimmer movie (http://paulbdesign.com/lightwave/new-sky-engines-divx502.avi)
That is very cool. If you watch it too often some of the angles seem a little akward, but it's still way cool. :cool:

[oracle]

DrDivad I can see you been visiting the tutorials section at Niklas Industries (http://www.niklasindustries.com/) :)

I also use LightWave. I'm yet to actually finish a picture. I'm more interested in the modelling side of things. Here are a few models of mine (unfinished, of course.)

http://members.iinet.net.au/~josh.y/3d/head01.jpg
http://members.iinet.net.au/~josh.y/3d/head02.jpg
http://members.iinet.net.au/~josh.y/3d/gasmask3.jpg

Here's a few test renders of the gasmask, and the legs of a chair I modelled at work one day whilst staring at the legs of a chair :D

gasmask again (http://members.iinet.net.au/~josh.y/3d/gasmask2.jpg)
'nother gasmask (http://members.iinet.net.au/~josh.y/3d/gasmask1.jpg)
chair leg (http://members.iinet.net.au/~josh.y/3d/chairleg.jpg)

Edit: Fixing dead links.

[PooJooce]

Rockin gasmask! Nice render too.. When do we see the rest ?

[oracle]

Uhh, when I can get the motivation to do some more :(

As I said, I have a real problem with creating unfinished models. The gasmask is the most recent thing I've done (last weekend) and has probably the highest chance of being completed into a character. We'll see how it goes.

I'll post some more stuff when I get home, including a cool-looking head of a creature/character known only as "Chudman" :cool:

[DrDivad]

Got Balls?

i have no idea how to stop those little black "corners"

[DrDivad]

Got Pool?

I can NOT get the surface water to look nice, maybe i'm too tired, and i'm certainly not happy with it, but it's still a work in progress, i used this stupid angle to hide the fact that the pool has no outside to the bottom section, this would normally be hidden by the ground, which isn't there

[PooJooce]

chuck in a reflection map..? it'll look rockin

[oracle]

Here's more works in progress, as promised.

Firstly, behold "CHUDMAN!" This was a 'realising concepts' test, where I got my friend to draw front and side pics, and To see If I could model it. The result is pretty close.
http://members.iinet.net.au/~josh.y/3d/chudman.jpg

As I said, I usually don't finish pics, but this ones probably the only thing I could really call finished, only because it was pretty quick and easy to do.
http://members.iinet.net.au/~josh.y/3d/electronhair.jpg

The others aren't too special, so I'll link to them. Here's one alot of you ZGeek'ers will recognise... or maybe not :p
Hmmm... (http://members.iinet.net.au/~josh.y/3d/bong.jpg)

Finally, here's a virus I knocked up following the tutorial at Niklas Industries (http://www.niklasindustries.com/tutorials/index.php).
Virus (http://members.iinet.net.au/~josh.y/3d/virus.jpg)

Edit: Fixing dead links.

[DrDivad]

bit of a pool scene, the ground sucks and the shadows sux but hey it kinda looks cool

[DrDivad]

and heres my car,

note i did a maor rebuild of various parts and the front fender was jsut unfixable, so i've used an older version of the fender, hence why it doesn't fit right, but you get the idea

[DrDivad]

and the arse shot

[Urban3300]

Nice work on the wheel Jaemus :)

Originally posted by oracle
As I said, I have a real problem with creating unfinished models.
Same with me, I have too many unfinished scenes.

Originally posted by DrDivad
I can NOT get the surface water to look nice, maybe i'm too tired, and i'm certainly not happy with it, but it's still a work in progress, i used this stupid angle to hide the fact that the pool has no outside to the bottom section, this would normally be hidden by the ground, which isn't there.

The water I used in my Cave Scene (http://personal.inet.fi/musiikki/puostraxx/3D/Swordcave3.jpg) :

This material is Raytraced!

Ambient: Black Luminosity: Black
Diffuse: R:55 G:86 B:128
Transparency: RGB: 84

Reflect:
Color black
I used a falloff map here:
Falloff Type: Fresnel
Fallof Direction Viewing Direction (camera Z -Axis)

IOR: 1.33

Specular Color: White
Specular level 200
Glossines 60
Soften 0,1


For bumb map I used Mixed colours:

Color #1 Black. For Color one I used a Cellular map
Cellular:
Cell Color white

Division Colors: Grey (R128 G 128 B128)
Black
Cell Characteristics:
Circular. (Make it fractal)
Size: 15 Iterations: 3 (Make it adaptive)
Spread 0,5
Bumb Smoothing: 0,1

Thresholds:
Low 0,0 Mid: 0,5 High: 1,0

Output: Invert (output amount 1,0)


For color 2 I used Noise (fractal): Noise threshold High 1,0 Levels 3,0.

Mix amount is set to 50.

Water in "action" (http://personal.inet.fi/musiikki/puostraxx/3D/Waterlava.jpg)
Another water pic (http://personal.inet.fi/musiikki/puostraxx/3D/rockwater.jpg)

[Urban3300]

Oracle, DrDivad...Those scenes are über cool!

DrDivad - That new pool scene looks very nice indeed.
Care to tell me how you did that water material? :D

I'd also like to know how to model a car. Feel free to post any of your tutorials here.

[DrDivad]

car is made entirely from SPline Paching in Lightwave, i.e. getting blueprints and background images, and drawing bezier splines to make a "wire cage" then then patching the sections and using nURBS....

the water material, ermm lemme think

Water Surface
===========

R :000 G:026 B:71

Diffuse: 75%
Specular: 100%
Gloss: 100%
Reflection: 75%
Transparency: 50%
Refractive Index: 1.33
Bump Map: Crumple Procedural

Edge Transparency ON
and Fast Fresnel Shader

[FireHart]

The water kinda sucks, thus spoiling almost the whole image...

Watery thing (http://koti.mbnet.fi/firehart/Akva5.jpg)

[Urban3300]

Add some fishes in the aquarium, hehe.

Anyway, here is a "spider" you may have seen before. I added the laser eyes (Reminds me of Borgs in First Contact). I'm still going to have to edit that scene later. Lightning can be a bitch.
http://personal.inet.fi/musiikki/puostraxx/3D/WallCyborg.jpg
Looks cool on desktop ;)

[DrDivad]

yeah that spider thing is neat,
i'm working on some cartoony fish to put in the pool (obviously pools need fish) and some traditional pool pony type thing,

then i'll think about making a short story animation for it

[Urban3300]

How about topless women in the pool with a beach volleyball? (Obviously pools need naked women) :)

[scathing]

Originally posted by DrDivad
and heres my car

I thought you drove a Vortsecx? It looks more like a Silvia. :)

[DrDivad]

hehe, just my rendered car, one day i'll print it out and take it for a drive :P

[Urban3300]

The thread is alive again!
http://personal.inet.fi/musiikki/puostraxx/3D/ClassicWtap.jpg

Another picture from different angle. (http://personal.inet.fi/musiikki/puostraxx/3D/Watertap.jpg)

I really don't like the sink, it sucks. Also the pic is missing something... Anyone have any suggestions?

[BlueBoy]

I think the tap shadow is a bit to 'hard'. But that's just nit-picking.
Good work Urbs! :)

[oracle]

Originally posted by Urban3300
I really don't like the sink, it sucks. Also the pic is missing something... Anyone have any suggestions? Yeah. Generally it's not a good idea to ray trace the image when you have no environment. For a simply object like this, it might look better with a reflection map. Here's a simple one I use for a standard chrome look (http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~joshua.y/forumpic/environment.jpg). If you want to ray trace reflections for more realism, then take a few mins to find a suitable HDRI image to use as an environment map (see my gas mask above.) I also think the distortion on the mirror is off-putting. Personally, I'd just make the mirrors reflection a little blurred.

--

Here's my latest model. It started out being an alien, but then I sucked the cheeks in and it looked like a lion. So I go rid of the alien ears and gave him lion ears and now he look like Simba :D

Here's the basic GI render with no textures.

http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~joshua.y/forumpic/simba.jpg

[Turtle_Wrangler]

Heres something ive been working on lately. Tis Ping-chan from the webcomic megatokyo (http://www.megatokyo.com) ... I still have quite a bit of work to do, but im hoping to be finished tommorow. (Im using Blender, so thats not certain)

edit: July 31, 03 - old ping chan pic removed for the sake of the 56kers, myself included. Scroll down for completed.

[DrDivad]

i'm currently redoing my Silvia model (fucking hdd died), and currently modelling a Behemoth (Stone Rhino) from the Battletech (Mechwarrior) Universe

[Turtle_Wrangler]

Finished Ping-chan:
http://www.zgeek.com/albums/uploads/pingrender.jpg
The eyes definitley have the android-look i was goin for, but the eyebrows are still fsked. Ah well...
edit: forgot to mention, the electric city behind Ping-chan is just some backdrop i found on google.
This last one is a (oversized) render of a bone-dragon that a friend of mine sketched. I got bored and did it in blender. Probably should have taken out my real name before uploading (and hers) but ah well, Turtle_Wrangler is still easier to spell:
http://www.zgeek.com/albums/uploads/bonedragon.jpg

[Moga2]

some very nice smax work there, once i get my compy back ill see if i can get some spare time and give you a run for your money :D

all in all im pretty impressed with your work

[Turtle_Wrangler]

Id gotten bored again, and did another Megatokyo Render,
This time, its Largo's PH34RB0T, which he used to camp the sewer system.
http://www.zgeek.com/albums/uploads/PH34RB0T2.jpg
note: looking at it now, ive forgotten to render shadows.. shit... oh well.

[a|A]

Originally posted by Turtle_Wrangler
edit: forgot to mention, the electric city behind Ping-chan is just some backdrop i found on google.


If I didnt know better I'd say that was a pic ripped directly outta The moofie 'hackers' ( The background pic that is! ) I'm pretty sure it is...from one of the leet 'hacking' sequences. Because that's what it looks like when you hack ... course.

[DrDivad]

chexor this........0r

[PooJooce]

one of my latest... just the tank, not the rest :P

http://www.paulbdesign.com/lightwave/final640.jpg

[Turtle_Wrangler]

Originally posted by DrDivad
chexor this........0r

Awesome :) That just goes to show, to make an awesome pic, you must first spend quality time polishing your wood...
...
...
...couldnt resist. :p

[DrDivad]

hehehe of course......

it turned well cos i spent time playing with the reflection maps and hunting down a genuine Teak wood texture instead of trying to use procedurals

and it look sjust liek the identical bowl i have on my desk! (except of course the splotchiness is in different spots :P)

[DrDivad]

COBRAS!

[Urban3300]

Nice tank PooJooce!
DrDivad, need some cool wheels for that thing?
http://personal.inet.fi/musiikki/puostraxx/3D/Icywheel.jpg
Before anyone asks... No, I don't know what the green stuff is.

[Urban3300]

I rendered two more pictures of the same tyre.
Tyre tracks. (http://personal.inet.fi/musiikki/puostraxx/3D/tyretrack.jpg)

And this is just me being tired and playing with the effects :D:
http://personal.inet.fi/musiikki/puostraxx/3D/firewheel.jpg

[Turtle_Wrangler]

Originally posted by Urban3300
And this is just me being tired and playing with the effects :D:


TIRED! AAAAHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Ah... hah....heh... wooo...
tire jokes crack me up....
Im workin on somethin nice, but its takin forever cause im using individual face UV mapping for the textures, and so texturing the damn thing is a pain.
I hope to get a screenie up soon though... before my sanity wears thin.

[Turtle_Wrangler]

allright, heres a really early render.
Still not even done texturing the head and torso, but if i dont post SOMETHING ill go nuts.
This is a gundam on teh theme of my old Highschool's football team, the D'iberville Warriors.
http://www.zgeek.com/albums/uploads/warriorrender2.jpg
its a bit fuzzy cause of auto-resize... ah well.. i need SLEEP.

[Urban3300]

Good stuff Mr. Turtle. I want to see the finished render. Still using Blender?
Anyway, I got this idea from DrDivad's Digital Portfolio (http://members.iinet.net.au/~davidtout/). Since everyone seems to be doing blood cell renders nowadays, there's no reason why I shouldn't do one too.
http://personal.inet.fi/musiikki/puostraxx/3D/BadBlood.jpg

[Turtle_Wrangler]

Urban: I finished the bloody model.
Ill prolly spend the better part of next week making textures and trying to get a decent render,
but until then, heres a frame from the rollover anim:
http://www.zgeek.com/albums/uploads/warriorrender6.jpg
I need sleeeeeep.....

[Turtle_Wrangler]

This thread was gettin too low down on the list, so heres my latest render:
Its Mecha-Sonic, from the sonic teh hedgehog series. Okay, maybe I went a tad overboard on the particles... whatever.

http://www.zgeek.com/albums/uploads/mechasonic5.jpg

[Turtle_Wrangler]

Im obviously a bored man with no life... Im also on Break from school, so,
Heres another render, Tis a Shoyru from neopets, Normally i wouldnt do something like this, but a friend said it could help her in the game, so what the hell....
http://www.zgeek.com/albums/uploads/shoyrufire.jpg

[DrDivad]

cobras cobras cobras cobras cobras MUSHROOM MUSHROOM!

[DrDivad]

i been busy

i disabled refraction on the window for now, cos the window itself isn't straight so i got wiggety whack refractions,

anyway, enjoy

[DrDivad]

i should really finish models before starting new ones :P

Nissan MID4

[sagit]

is that a "toughened foam" texture? :p

[DrDivad]

it's SPOSED to be shiny, pffft,

radiosity is not turned up to much detail so that it renders quickly, so the grainyness gives that foam car look :P

[oracle]

Is that with shading noise reduction enabled?

[DrDivad]

yeah, cos rad was set to 2x6, hence noise, hence i'ma cheaparse and wanted a speedy render, if i'd used white you'd all bitch less :P but i felt like blue, so nrerr :P:D

[DrDivad]

hhe, playign with caustics.......far from perfect.......but progress

night on the town :)

http://members.iinet.net.au/~davidtout/render/drink_table_dof.jpg

and the aftermath!

http://members.iinet.net.au/~davidtout/render/hangover_dof.jpg

[Urban3300]

Turtle - Nice robots and dragon. I agree, that you used a little too much particles in your "Mecha-Sonic" Can't really see the mecha.

DrDivad - I must say that Sagittarius is right, the material in Nissan MID4 looks a bit like toughened foam ;) Otherwise it's a nice car and you should really finish it someday. That is why I decided to help you by rendering these headlights for you :p
http://personal.inet.fi/musiikki/puostraxx/3D/Carlamps.jpg

[DrDivad]

Urban

Those lights are way cool! kickin' it old school!

[DrDivad]

I went a bit crazy with the copy paste :)

Roses (http://www.zgeek.com/gallery/uploads/roses)

[Turtle_Wrangler]

Originally posted by DrDivad
I went a bit crazy with the copy paste :)

404 (http://www.zgeek.com/albums/uploads/roses?full=1)

[DrDivad]

Should be fixed.

[Turtle_Wrangler]

very cool, and pwetty too. Though, id lower the hardness of specularity: the little spots of light sort of make them look plastic, also the shadows seem rather hard, perhaps the petals could be slightly transparent?

[DrDivad]

yeah i noticed those too, but since it was a 5minute job :P

also every rose is identical, but be damned if i'm making a heap of them

[Turtle_Wrangler]

Originally posted by DrDivad
yeah i noticed those too, but since it was a 5minute job :P

also every rose is identical, but be damned if i'm making a heap of them

Does lightwave have a Controllable Noise function? Thatd be a quick way of making several uniques...

[DrDivad]

Originally posted by Turtle_Wrangler
Does lightwave have a Controllable Noise function? Thatd be a quick way of making several uniques...

ahh probably, but so far all my experimenting has bene in modeler, i know jack all about the actual animating half of it :P

[wOnko]

just a little something i was working on last week - based on the original geometry from Joern Utzon

[wOnko]

an hour in bryce and art imitates life imitates lunch...

something wot I did last week also

[Turtle_Wrangler]

This pic of a dragon emerging from a well twas drawn by member ZombieChick83...
http://www.freewebs.com/clarkiekins/renders/oldies/welldrag.txt
tis also the subject of my latest project.
Heres progress so far:
http://www.freewebs.com/clarkiekins/renders/oldies/well6.txt

Urban said he may model the same pic as well, so I just hope I can keep a few steps ahead of him :p

[Pirate]

Cooorrrr, man these are sexy! more!!

[Turtle_Wrangler]

well, I dont have enough processing speed to do the mist I wanted. My computer just cant handle a unified render of that level.
So heres about as finished as its gonna get:
http://www.freewebs.com/clarkiekins/renders/oldies/well8.txt
yeah... doin my part to make this thread unsafe for 56kers...

[Urban3300]

Progress image:
http://personal.inet.fi/musiikki/puostraxx/Greychessroom.jpg
Wonko: I like your stuff (Especially the cartoonish egg) and I want more. Turtle, I like your well render too, the wheelbarrow could be a little bigger.
That is all.

[wOnko]

and so it begins

an experiment in volumetric liquids and bad taste

[wOnko]

it is the benzine you have to be careful with apparently

an experiment in bryce boolean shapes

[wOnko]

a whodunnit for chess geeks

again, done entirely in bryce5

[DrDivad]

try a differently lighting angle, or a much softer one, it's a bit in the way.

damn bryce!

[oracle]

Seeing as though this thread has been resurrected, here's a couple of new ones (and one old one) from me.

After seeing Urban's sink picture, it inspired me to model the vanity in my house. This is just a few hours of modelling... so no textures as yet; I'm still not happy with the actual shape of the basin, either.

http://members.iinet.net.au/~josh.y/3d/vanity.jpg

Secondly, this is just a basic chimp I modelled at work using the free (and very cool) Wings 3D (http://www.wings3d.com/) program. If your looking to get into poly modelling for free, it's worth a look. Anyway, here's the pic, with basic colours.

http://members.iinet.net.au/~josh.y/3d/chimp.jpg

Finally, seeing this Bryce stuff reminded me of my old Bryce days. This was the last thing I did in Bryce before I decided primitives and boolean operations weren't going to be enough for me.

http://members.iinet.net.au/~josh.y/3d/burger.jpg

wOnko you should check out Wings 3D... You can even import models from it into Bryce by exporting the model from Wings as an .obj.

Edit: Fixing dead links.

[Turtle_Wrangler]

Heres a desk. Its actually the desk im sitting at. I was going to put things in / on the desk but I got bored. I mean, who can blame me. Its a desk. Its boring.
Modeled in blender, rendered using a blender port to YafRay. Both freeware. Blender pwns wings3d.
http://www.freewebs.com/clarkiekins/renders/oldies/desk3.txt

[Turtle_Wrangler]

Trying to make up for the boringness that was the desk,
thought id pop in and post a progress pic of this long range mecha:
http://www.zgeek.com/albums/uploads/lrmecha1.jpg
Its main weapon is allready finished, cept for a few touches. All the rest of the mecha is incomplete. None of the legs are really finished yet, but I figured Id clone the one I was working on for the progress pic, cause itd look stupid with one leg. Anywhom. Back to work.

[Turtle_Wrangler]

A status update on my ant-like mecha.
Its nearing completion, still a lot of texturing, painting, and detail work to be done, but heres a screenie:
http://www.freewebs.com/clarkiekins/renders/oldies/lrmecha4.txt
Tis gettin sexay. Once again, modeled/textured/painted in Blender, rendered externally by YafRay.

[Urban3300]

Is it finished yet? http://forums.zgeek.com/images/icons/icon506.gif kthx.

[sagit]

Originally posted by Urban3300
The thread is alive again!
...

I really don't like the sink, it sucks. Also the pic is missing something... Anyone have any suggestions?


water drips? soap next to the taps?

also it looks a little sharpish. see if you can round off the edges where the bowl starts.

[Urban3300]

Yeah I might give it another shot... but not today. I have started working on a different scene now.
Also, I would like to ask people to fix their broken links if possible, it would make this thread much cleaner.

[Turtle_Wrangler]

Thread necromancy time...
I've been a lazy bastich as of late, but instead of making excuses, I'll just post something.
Im working on a render of a spacecraft entitled "Sonic Blue," sketched out by a friend, Zeica.
The original sketch:
http://www.freewebs.com/clarkiekins/renders/SB/sonicblue.txt

Heres some incomplete progress pics (took some artistic licensing in places to make up for inconsistancies between views in sketch, i'll make it more accurate later):
http://www.freewebs.com/clarkiekins/renders/SB/sonicpublic1.txt
http://www.freewebs.com/clarkiekins/renders/SB/sonicpublic2.txt
Thats it for now... workin to complete this by monday or so...

Also, I would like to ask people to fix their broken links if possible, it would make this thread much cleaner.
err... yeah... i'll do that a bit later (no really... I will...)

[tikdoph]

It's a shame that despite the initial post in this thread...I challenge you to create something new using the 3 dimensions, something that no-one has ever seen in these forums.... there are so many of these throughout the entire thread...

http://www.thispicdoesnotexist.com/toobadthatdidntjustattachithuh.jpg

[Turtle_Wrangler]

ooooohhhohh... I get it now

/slow

edit: and on a side note, I'll be using .txt files formatted as images to deal with my host... they display fine on IE... if theres a problem on another browser lemme know, and I'll take care of it... or attach it or somethin. *shrugs*

edit2: fixin my broken links as I go, lrmecha2.jpg no longer exists on my HD, so i'll have to dig it off a backup CD later

[108]

Originally posted by Turtle_Wrangler
Thread necromancy time...
I've been a lazy bastich as of late, but instead of making excuses, I'll just post something.
Im working on a render of a spacecraft entitled "Sonic Blue," sketched out by a friend, Zeica.

Whoa, that's pretty awesome.

The exhaust sticking out the rear end looks weird though. It looks like it's pointing down too much, not in line with the body of the ship. Unless it's a cone and the fins are blocking the view?

[Turtle_Wrangler]

Originally posted by 108
Whoa, that's pretty awesome.

The exhaust sticking out the rear end looks weird though. It looks like it's pointing down too much, not in line with the body of the ship. Unless it's a cone and the fins are blocking the view?

yeah, its conical, look at the original sketch, shows the same bit at a clearer angle

[Urban3300]

Originally posted by tikdoph
It's a shame that despite the initial post in this thread...... there are so many of these throughout the entire thread...

http://www.thispicdoesnotexist.com/toobadthatdidntjustattachithuh.jpg They shouldn't use the image uploads because it is emptied regulary. I had to edit my every post to get the pictures working again (Except the first two pictures).

[Turtle_Wrangler]

Ive spent quite a bit of today workin to finish up, and I actually have, woo. All the modeling, texturing, painting, etc is done. All thats left to do now is to run the final renders, so I'll post the pics as my computer kicks em out.
For now have a side view, I need sleep, i'll eat some CPU cylces and churn out the rest when I wake up.
edit: this pic removed to avoid redundancy. scroll down :p

[DexX]

My first two tries at 3D characters, from quite a few years back now...

http://home.aanet.com.au/dexx/Amy.jpg

[DexX]

http://home.aanet.com.au/dexx/Val.jpg

[Turtle_Wrangler]

Too lazy to find all the seperate pics, so here's the final print version.
Last names have obviously been x'd out just cause I dont like spamming it all over the place, and I was too lazy to edit "Zeica" and "Turtle Wrangler" in instead of our real names as on the print...
anywho, here it is, I sized it down to 1/3rd original size to avoid all the excess scrolling andwhatnot:

http://www.freewebs.com/clarkiekins/renders/SB/finalweb.txt
(made with Blender, greatest freeware on Earth www.blender.org)

[Urban3300]

HDRI Test:
http://personal.inet.fi/musiikki/puostraxx/3D/HDRTest.jpg
http://personal.inet.fi/musiikki/puostraxx/3D/hdrztest.jpg
Other: Discreet is annoucing 3D Studio Max 7 http://www4.discreet.com/3dsmax/index7.php
New version 7 features include:
Normal Mapping Tool
Character studio ® 4
Character animation tools including: Skin WrapSkin MorphParameter Collector and EditorReaction Controller a Skin Shader that uses Sub-Surface Scattering.

[Directed]

Dammit urban, you are one impressive artist man.

[Urban3300]

Why thank you. I should really reinstall 3DS Max and start modeling again.

[DrDivad]

Urban, catch, made in about 10 seconds :P

[Urban3300]

Pretty damn cool for a 10 second job. Reminds me of the blood picture I made once.

[oracle]

Two new heads from me... Second one is a work in progress, or WIP, as we say.

http://members.iinet.net.au/~josh.y/3d/dude.jpg

http://members.iinet.net.au/~josh.y/3d/w00p.jpg

Edit: Fixing dead links.

[Urban3300]

Excellent, those are some mighty facial bones you have there. Are you going to make a body for the head(s)? What about ears for the WIP?

[balaamsdonkey]

Hey Urban good stuff. I got a bundle of softwear from a friend who had an older version of 3dsmax, I think it was 3. Anyway I got the program too, but I know nothing about it. I'm pretty proficiant in photoshop, and wanna start dinking around with max. I taught myself on photoshop just by messing around, and that technique isn't working on max. So do you know any sites or anything that can give me some rudementary knowedlge of it? I wanan make some sweet 3d stuff!

[Urban3300]

I'm glad you asked. http://www.3dlinks.com/ is a great site for tutorials and I suggest you start from a very simple thing that is an apple: Apple tutorial (http://www.3dlinks.com/tutorial.cfm?tutorial=max/apple&title=Creating%20a%20realistic%20apple%20using%20o nly%20procedural%20textures).

After you've done that try making this orange (http://www.hallofheads.com/tutorials/tut2.htm). Then there's www.3dcafe.com that offers lots of basic tutorials, these should get you started. Oh by the way, you should try to acquire 3DS Max 5,6 or 7.

[DrDivad]

Lightwave 3D is where it's at! Harder than max, but more powerful. Great for cars, spaceships, yadda yadda yadda. Look for Lightwave in Firefox and the movie of the same series Serenity, those M&M's ads, Children of Dune, Sin City...

Lightwave is fantastic for Sci-Fi and stuff where the visual elements are extremely important and stuff like character animation is less critical. For the amateur just wanting to play around, it's awesome because you'll get far more satisfying renders.

If you're developing for games, web design, print media (though personally I'd use Lightwave depending on the application), did I mention games, then you can't go past 3DSMax. It's far simpler, tends to be a bit more efficient, in my opinion sacrificing features and quality for smaller, neater meshes which is what makes it so fantastic for game developers. With some knowledge of the software and good texturing you can easily overcome the drawbacks. Some people have tried others (incl Lightwave) and typically the games are clunkier and the 3D models don't sit in the game so well.

Maya is the big dog supposedly, personally I rate Lightwave 3D over it (can you tell I like Lightwave? :P) but for Character modelling and rendering, rendered composition, general VFX, Fluid dynamics, physical simulation of fabrics and materials, then Maya seems to be the king. Most expensive and most complicated of the big 3 but if those are the things you're after, it's what you use.

I still have yet to delve into Maya, need to dig up a copy, but it seems definately worth learning the basics in some other 3D modeler/animator before attempting Maya...


My $4.50

[DrDivad]

Beginnings of a new piece.

[Urban3300]

Lightwave 3D is where it's at! Harder than max, but more powerful. Great for cars, spaceships, yadda yadda yadda. Look for Lightwave in Firefox and the movie of the same series Serenity, those M&M's ads, Children of Dune, Sin City... The Dune miniseries' effects were not very impressive if you ask me. They looked very choppy and I'm pretty sure 3DS Max is used in more movies than Lightwave. I would say that how powerful the program is, is in the hands of the user. Both programs can create photorealistic images and animations from what I've seen. Max is easy to use and has more stuff than Lightwave. Apparently you have to get separate hair generators and body dynamics plugins for Lightwave, this is not necessary in 3DS Max. For Max you can get a very powerful renderer (Splutterfish Brazil) which is the best renderer I've used. When I used lightwave it had 2 programs (WTF?) that had to be used if I remember correctly. It was annoying to swap between two programs all the time.

[DrDivad]

There's many rendered CGI sequences and stills out there that are near impossible to tell which program made them, but I can often pick out the Lightwave ones. THat's probably not what the developer wants to hear but in all those cases I've thought "hey that CGI rocks, and I think it's Lightwave", I look it up and sure enough.

Inline with my previous post I don't beleive Lightwave is the ideal choice for things that need hair and the latest version of it's IK system is supposedly top-notch.

The point of the two programs is because you're supposed to be able to model in one and then you can render in something completely different if you want, or you can model in the program of your choice and animate in Lightwave's Layout.

What it comes down to is Lightwave clicks for me, and feels the best, probably because I learned on it, and it's Amiga roots are familiar to me. Max just feels I dunno, 'crusty' and unintuitive to me, though there's thousands of people out there who disagree :)

[Urban3300]

Hehe, that is funny because I can pick the lightwave and max ones too. It is usually hard to start using another program if you're used to something else. I've tried several programs but they fill me with bah.

Other news: I recently got a job from a loghouse company that wants me to make 3D models of their loghouses for their catalogues.

[Urban3300]

Rubiks! Ok so the glass cube wasnt exactly what I was hoping for but I couldn't be fucked tweaking the lighting anymore at 3 in the morning yesterday.
http://www.zgeek.com/forum/gallery/files/4/9/2/rubik_thumb.jpg (http://www.zgeek.com/forum/gallery/files/4/9/2/rubik_original.jpg)

[MisterBishi]

I like it.

[Pirate]

I think you guys need to try the best one out there. Bryce. It so beats 3d max and lightwave.

olololololol

[sagit]

I think you guys need to try the best one out there. Bryce. It so beats 3d max and lightwave.

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sif. Kai's PowerGoo ftw.

[vantastic]

An old scene i did a while ago... probably in 2002... I still think it looks cool, in a bland "why do i have to model everything i see on my desk" kind of way ;)
http://www.zgeek.com/forum/gallery/files/2/2/6/7/oooh02.jpg

[Up_All_Night]

maybe i'll make something in 3ds max, any suggestions?

[Urban3300]

Make me photorealistic wood material, it would be for a log house.

[vantastic]

Urban: The only way I can think of doing it is by you moving over to Lightwave 3D as it uses Procedural textures and image maps all in one texturing process... easy to use (relatively) compared to 3ds... but then again, it all comes down to what you're used to i guess

For most of my texturing, I use the lightwave procedurals to give depth, and create my own alpha channels, bumps, and other maps... this is arduous at times, but there's a lot you can accomplish with images.google.com :D

[anothe]

you guys are all too leet for me :hit:

anyhow this is my feeble attempt at 3d.. or 2.5d anyway :(.. got a good mark for it at least
http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/6410/ohs3smallwz5.png
basically he runs along that nurbs tube as it extends every which way and the trees and shit pop up as he goes. then he falls into a soupy sea of different characters.

:fart:

[vantastic]

I'm working on a rubiks cube thing now... thanks to the inspiring post by Urban

[vantastic]

http://www.zgeek.com/forum/gallery/files/2/2/6/7/rubikscube.jpg

Here we go... inspired by Urban3000

[Urban3300]

Nicely done Vantastic, I'm glad I still inspire someone. You could do a wicked planet with that glowing wall and floor material, similar to the planet of doom I made once.
Here is a sauna I made for a company that makes loghouses. Since I suck at boxmodeling et cetera all of the logs are separate as are the doors and windows and all the boards used on the roof. I still need a better material for the roof and doors but those will do for now. The last picture with the grass I made for my own amusement. Its a little boring and the trees are standard max trees. The grass I made using the hair and fur modifier with the hair count of one million. Default scanline renderer was used to render these images, no advanced mumbo jumbo.
http://www.zgeek.com/forum/gallery/files/4/9/2/sauna2_thumb.jpg (http://www.zgeek.com/forum/gallery/files/4/9/2/sauna2.jpg) http://www.zgeek.com/forum/gallery/files/4/9/2/sauna1_thumb.jpg (http://www.zgeek.com/forum/gallery/files/4/9/2/sauna1.jpg) http://www.zgeek.com/forum/gallery/files/4/9/2/Mokkinurmikko_thumb.jpg (http://www.zgeek.com/forum/gallery/files/4/9/2/Mokkinurmikko.jpg)

[Vardsy]

Rubiks! Ok so the glass cube wasnt exactly what I was hoping for but I couldn't be fucked tweaking the lighting anymore at 3 in the morning yesterday.
http://www.zgeek.com/forum/gallery/files/4/9/2/rubik.jpg

Using at as my wallpaper now

Be good if there was a 1440 x 900 version :D

[Urban3300]

This one took me a few hours to render. The scene is quite simple, standard boxes have been used in most of the models with a few cylinders and a couple of a little more complicated models here and there. The plant model is a standard Max plant with my own materials applied to it, same with the teapot on the shelf. As the more astute of you may have noticed the whole room is rather empty, I'm just too damn lazy to model lots of different objects but I may do that later if I re-render that scene :). Textures are all lowres and resized properly with the UVW map modifiers. For lighting I used 6 VRay lights and one standard directional light with different multipliers and values for the outside lights. Thats about it, not much I can say about this boring interior.

I realize there are tons of these interiors on the internet but I had a moment of unimaginativeness and this idea was simple enough to do. Questions, opinions, thoughts?
P.S. Vardsy did you get that high res rubiks cube?
http://www.zgeek.com/forum/gallery/files/4/9/2/interior.jpg
Edit: Fuck, I just noticed one of the chairs is floating in the air perkele! Fucking max throws objects around a bit sometimes if they're grouped and you open another scene with different scale units and then reopen another.

[sagit]

Looks great except for the room looking like a V shape overall. In that sense the perspective seems a bit out, kind of like ... its viewed from the output end of a security camera with a fisheye lens. If it were more up and down it would look more real.

[Urban3300]

Problem with that, sagit, is that if I want all of that in the picture I have to use custom camera lens and tweak the perspective. I don't think it looks like a fisheye though. That and you notice things like this after you have rendered the picture and it took me hours to render that so I cbf fixing little things.

In other news one of my loghouse renders ended up in a loghouse catalogue, which is nice, I had to modify the colors a bit for the catalogue though but it is the same model that I posted earlier here.