The Endless Pluto Station Thread - Page 38 - Scifi-Meshes.com

homerpalooza67 · 06-10-2007, 03:14 AM

Brilliant render, dude!! Does this station ever fully "decloak"? lol!

**tobian** · 06-10-2007, 11:49 AM

Shoooo! The cloaking device works fine thanks :P

The shot is lit with one key light (area) I added a little bounce light from behind as it was looking a little flat back there (area) and my usual background gradient image, then all lit using radiosity, and I added some ambient occlusion to the surfaces, but I am deciding if it's too much or not.. it certainly helps with defining some of the panels!

SnowCrash · 06-10-2007, 11:53 AM

rumour has it the rest of the station doesn't actually exist.........

homerpalooza67 · 06-10-2007, 03:30 PM

Shhh! Dont tell anyone!

**tobian** · 06-10-2007, 11:53 PM

It does exist... just not as high a detail as that lot! :P So I don't show them together

**JeffrySG** · 06-11-2007, 02:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tobian

The shot is lit with one key light (area) I added a little bounce light from behind as it was looking a little flat back there (area) and my usual background gradient image, then all lit using radiosity, and I added some ambient occlusion to the surfaces, but I am deciding if it's too much or not.. it certainly helps with defining some of the panels!

Well, I really like the lighting as it is now, so my vote is to leave it for now...

**tobian** · 06-11-2007, 02:18 AM

Needless to say that approach to lighting is not for the feint hearted, or those who don't have Fprime

**Freak** · 06-12-2007, 05:40 PM

Can I just say I hate you! you make my model look like somthing I just steped in!

Nice job tobian. what are you going to move onto next?

**tobian** · 06-12-2007, 05:56 PM

Hehe aww I'm sure that's not true! (note to self, look at Freaks model when I get home

)

Most of what I'm doing is just repetion.. a LOT of it

It's like in Photoshop. 90% of your work involves the same 10% of the tools, it's just using them in creative ways and knowing how to use them. About 50% of my modelling time is spent swivelling the model, 40% fixing some horrible mesh error or cleaning away unused polygons and about 10% doing anything productive

My best advice is to start from your main shapes, and then get down to progressively smaller detail. I see too often people adding greebles to unfinished main shapes! That's inviting problems!

that and chamfer and or round any obtuse edges.. which can be easy or horrific depending on your software

**JeffrySG** · 06-12-2007, 06:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tobian

My best advice is to start from your main shapes, and then get down to progressively smaller detail. I see too often people adding greebles to unfinished main shapes! That's inviting problems!

Yeah, I'm always confused when I see people doing that...

06-10-2007, 03:14 AM	#371 (permalink)
homerpalooza67 SFM Oracle Realname: Jedman67 Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: New York Posts: 2,541	Brilliant render, dude!! Does this station ever fully "decloak"? lol!
	"We apologize for the inconvenience.....please continue to hold, and a representative will be with you shortly....." "Hallowed are the Ori!"

06-10-2007, 11:49 AM	#372 (permalink)
tobian Hallway Monitor Total Awards: 1 (more» ...) Join Date: May 2006 Location: Newcastle, England Age: 33 Posts: 1,341	Shoooo! The cloaking device works fine thanks :P The shot is lit with one key light (area) I added a little bounce light from behind as it was looking a little flat back there (area) and my usual background gradient image, then all lit using radiosity, and I added some ambient occlusion to the surfaces, but I am deciding if it's too much or not.. it certainly helps with defining some of the panels!
	Visit my Endless Pluto Station project, I'm still working on it, honest! Tobian: Official SFM Minion & Registered FTL Drive lvr. Dave woz here!

06-10-2007, 11:53 AM	#373 (permalink)
SnowCrash SFM Guru Join Date: May 2006 Age: 35 Posts: 292	rumour has it the rest of the station doesn't actually exist.........
	DU Admin \|\| Gert Lush Modeller\|\| Ex SFA Senate i unzipped, loaded, F9'ed, went "arrrgh!!!" and closed.......Finish???? Nobody said anything about finishing!!!!!!

06-10-2007, 03:30 PM	#374 (permalink)
homerpalooza67 SFM Oracle Realname: Jedman67 Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: New York Posts: 2,541	Shhh! Dont tell anyone!
	"We apologize for the inconvenience.....please continue to hold, and a representative will be with you shortly....." "Hallowed are the Ori!"

06-10-2007, 11:53 PM	#375 (permalink)
tobian Hallway Monitor Total Awards: 1 (more» ...) Join Date: May 2006 Location: Newcastle, England Age: 33 Posts: 1,341	It does exist... just not as high a detail as that lot! :P So I don't show them together
	Visit my Endless Pluto Station project, I'm still working on it, honest! Tobian: Official SFM Minion & Registered FTL Drive lvr. Dave woz here!

06-11-2007, 02:18 AM	#377 (permalink)
tobian Hallway Monitor Total Awards: 1 (more» ...) Join Date: May 2006 Location: Newcastle, England Age: 33 Posts: 1,341	Needless to say that approach to lighting is not for the feint hearted, or those who don't have Fprime
	Visit my Endless Pluto Station project, I'm still working on it, honest! Tobian: Official SFM Minion & Registered FTL Drive lvr. Dave woz here!

06-12-2007, 05:40 PM	#378 (permalink)
Freak Project Lead on SFM Film Realname: Dean Join Date: May 2006 Location: London, UK Age: 28 Posts: 8,024 Blog Entries: 7	Can I just say I hate you! you make my model look like somthing I just steped in! Nice job tobian. what are you going to move onto next?
	*“Well, I guess wiping out 2 billion people sort of qualifies as a dick move.”* - Guerrilla TH&B Project: Fighter 2 \| Ships of the Naraka Empire \| Ships of the Commonwealth of Solaris

06-12-2007, 05:56 PM	#379 (permalink)
tobian Hallway Monitor Total Awards: 1 (more» ...) Join Date: May 2006 Location: Newcastle, England Age: 33 Posts: 1,341	Hehe aww I'm sure that's not true! (note to self, look at Freaks model when I get home) Most of what I'm doing is just repetion.. a LOT of it It's like in Photoshop. 90% of your work involves the same 10% of the tools, it's just using them in creative ways and knowing how to use them. About 50% of my modelling time is spent swivelling the model, 40% fixing some horrible mesh error or cleaning away unused polygons and about 10% doing anything productive My best advice is to start from your main shapes, and then get down to progressively smaller detail. I see too often people adding greebles to unfinished main shapes! That's inviting problems! that and chamfer and or round any obtuse edges.. which can be easy or horrific depending on your software
	Visit my Endless Pluto Station project, I'm still working on it, honest! Tobian: Official SFM Minion & Registered FTL Drive lvr. Dave woz here!

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