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Old 08-06-2006, 07:56 AM   #101 (permalink)
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Old 08-06-2006, 08:10 AM   #102 (permalink)
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Holy crap! Awesome!
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Old 08-07-2006, 12:06 PM   #103 (permalink)
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Amazing!

How are you getting that hex pattern?

Is that a plug in?

I cant get over how smooth and organic looking the curves are.
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Old 08-07-2006, 09:02 PM   #104 (permalink)
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How are you getting that hex pattern? Is that a plug in?
No, I created a custom texture for the entire bussard "lens" including the black outline and the honeycomb pattern. The end result is a combination of diffuse, specular, gloss and self-illumination maps. I don't often bother with gloss maps, but in this case it was crucial to achieving the look of the honeycomb pattern in particular.
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She looks Fantastic. All you hard work is deffinently paying off. Great work
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Old 08-07-2006, 09:20 PM   #106 (permalink)
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You're pretty obsessed with hexes. More power to ya.

I wish I understood sub-d as well as you do. Daaaaaamn.
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incredible, vektor.
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Old 08-07-2006, 10:03 PM   #108 (permalink)
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Thanks for the explination Vektor, now I am even more impressed.
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Old 08-07-2006, 10:05 PM   #109 (permalink)
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I wish I understood sub-d as well as you do. Daaaaaamn.
You know what's funny? Even though these warp nacelles are very similar to the previous version, they are an entirely new rebuild and I was downright shocked to realize how much easier it was this time than it was a couple of years ago. There is a definite intuitive/predictive knack to Sub-D modeling that takes a lot of time and practice to develop, or at least it did for me. It's kind of like chess in that you really need to be able to think multiple steps ahead of where you're at to achieve a winning strategy.

Since we're on the topic, here's a wireframe rendering of the base mesh for the warp nacelle before the two iterations of subdivision are applied:

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Old 08-07-2006, 10:09 PM   #110 (permalink)
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HOLY COW! Thats just jaw droppingly amazing! Great work.
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