Kukulkan

dandelO · October 19, 2010, 11:13:38 PM

Twice every year without fail at each equinox, at the Mayan temple, Kukulkan, the Serpent appears in shadows to crawl from top to bottom of the pyramid. A mind blowing, celestial piece of ancient brilliance. I just wondered how easy it would be to go all Mayan in a Terragen world.
Little Augustus Gloop in the white shirt looks to be heading up the tube again, if this image is anything to go by! Don't pet the snake, boy! Oh, he never listens!

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El-Castillo model and people - Google 3D Warehouse
2x Marc Gebhart's trees/1x Xfrog tree
There's my own umbrella acacia trees and some TG grassclumps.
Clouds are a mix of TG and a photo I took.
And borrowed this image to steal a POV from.

A perfectly mediocre attempt on a subject that deserves much better!

Cheers.

cyphyr · October 20, 2010, 03:44:11 AM

Impressive reproduction of the photo, you've matched it perfectly. I was even more impressed with the sky and then saw that you'd used a photo! Shocking!
Actually this reminds me of a little mini challange I've had running in my head for a while. How close could we combine the real and the TG created and could it be done invisibly? Matching the tonality of a photo is a chalange in its self. Will you be returning to this?
Richard

ps: looking round Google earth Model; repositary, seems to have developed a lot further since I was last there.

inkydigit · October 20, 2010, 03:56:31 AM

good work! how did you get the google model int tg?

nethskie · October 20, 2010, 06:06:08 AM

very nice mate!

j meyer · October 20, 2010, 10:08:44 AM

and even the appropriate date in the signature

dandelO · October 20, 2010, 10:47:48 AM

Cheers!

Ignore the fact that when this fantastic light show is happening that there would be thousands of people gathered where the camera is viewing from, not just a few random tourists wandering around!

That's some really incredible ancient shadow-play!

Jason, the model was exported directly from Sketchup to .obj

Henry Blewer · October 20, 2010, 11:29:51 AM

Whew! Nice render.

inkydigit · October 20, 2010, 02:41:36 PM

Quote from: dandelO on October 20, 2010, 10:47:48 AM
Cheers!

Ignore the fact that when this fantastic light show is happening that there would be thousands of people gathered where the camera is viewing from, not just a few random tourists wandering around! That's some really incredible ancient shadow-play!
Jason, the model was exported directly from Sketchup to .obj

cheers, i will dl su now....

dandelO · October 20, 2010, 02:52:22 PM

There are some free .obj exporter plugins for it around, the pro version has one built in. In most cases, I don't even need Poseray to get it TG ready after exporting from it.
There are tons of great models at the 3D warehouse, probably the biggest 3D model sharing library around where everything is free.

If you have another program that can open Collada(.dae) then Sketchup isn't always necessary, lots of times people upload their models in .dae format, as well as Sketchup .skp.

Kadri · October 20, 2010, 03:02:03 PM

DandelO , did you use GI or another light setup without GI ?

And regarding SketchUp files i saw this a couple of days ago on Newtek :

http://www.babel3d.com/

I don't know if this has any use ; i didn't tried it. So please be careful!

dandelO · October 20, 2010, 03:22:00 PM

I used GI on surfaces, Kadri.
Cool site by the looks of things, I'll try it out now and see what like...

choronr · October 20, 2010, 04:35:48 PM

A most interesting place you've created here; sky, terrain and all the elements fit together very well.

Kadri · October 20, 2010, 04:41:36 PM

Quote from: dandelO on October 20, 2010, 03:22:00 PM
I used GI on surfaces, Kadri.
Cool site by the looks of things, I'll try it out now and see what like...

Thanks DandelO

Hetzen · October 21, 2010, 07:00:01 AM

You're good at moulding TG to what ever you're working towards Martin. I have a lot of respect for that. What lets this down for me, is the saturation of the colours. They're too much man.

dandelO · October 21, 2010, 11:44:01 AM

I kind of agree with you there, Hetzen. My current monitor is an LCD and my images always look fine here, then when I see them on a decent LED screen, I always find the same problem. I haven't seen this image on a decent screen but I know it'll be too saturated, as you say. I do also have an old CRT but that's on its way out and the colours are terrible and too difficult to calibrate. I sometimes copy images to my TV display through the Xbox to check final colours but it's a lot of pissing about. Basically, I need a decent screen.

Cheers!