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Title: The listeners
Post by: mr-miley on July 24, 2007, 04:00:15 AM
Hi all. Just a quick one (oooerrr mrs). This sort of came about by accident, though I'm quite pleased with the results. I only rendered it small cause its still being worked on. There will be another version of this coming soon. Anyway, hope you like.
C & C always welcome.

Miles
Title: Re: The listeners
Post by: sjefen on July 24, 2007, 04:42:31 AM
That is a fantastic image. I love the point of view. Great job.
How do you place your single objects? I think it's hard to understand where the objects actually hit the ground. The bounding box don't help me much.
Anyways..... looking forward to the updates.
Title: Re: The listeners
Post by: Mavcat on July 24, 2007, 04:48:32 AM
Very nice!!! I looooove the lightning!!  Great job!
Title: Re: The listeners
Post by: mr-miley on July 24, 2007, 05:07:41 AM
Ta very much both.  ;D

sjefen, The object placement was a real pain. Because the first tower is quite a way from the camera it made it awkward to get its plinth "on the ground" cause its very small at that distance. It was made even more of a pain by the fact that the base of the plinth isn't the 0,0,0 point of the object. It took me about 1/2 an hour to get the plinth on the ground  >:(
Title: Re: The listeners
Post by: Volker Harun on July 24, 2007, 05:30:09 AM
The front is very, very good.
Title: Re: The listeners
Post by: sjefen on July 24, 2007, 05:42:09 AM
He he..... Alright. Lets hope that this will be easyer to do in some of the next updates.
Title: Re: The listeners
Post by: Inscrutable on July 24, 2007, 06:18:26 AM
That is truly fantastic.  I love the setup, but I'm most impressed with the colouration and texture of the forground.  I can never seem to get grass and rocks to look like that!  Looking forward to further updates on this one!

As far as object placing is concerned I just tend to move my mouse over the preview pane to the rough area that I want and then type those values into the translate coordinate boxes for the object.  Then I move the camera around and click and drag the object around the preview pane for fine adjustments.  Takes a while, but usually works.  I also do very rough sample renders to check the positioning (about 320x240, detail 5) before repositioning as required.
Title: Re: The listeners
Post by: sjefen on July 24, 2007, 07:11:46 AM
Quote from: Inscrutable on July 24, 2007, 06:18:26 AM
As far as object placing is concerned I just tend to move my mouse over the preview pane to the rough area that I want and then type those values into the translate coordinate boxes for the object.  Then I move the camera around and click and drag the object around the preview pane for fine adjustments.  Takes a while, but usually works.  I also do very rough sample renders to check the positioning (about 320x240, detail 5) before repositioning as required.

That's what I do to, but I think it's really difficult. It takes a lot of time.
Title: Re: The listeners
Post by: ThinkPink on July 24, 2007, 08:16:02 AM
Wow .... that's great !!! The lightning is fantastic .....
Title: Re: The listeners
Post by: Kevin F on July 24, 2007, 08:31:06 AM
Excellent image, great work. Don't see no lightning though! Do you guys mean lighting?
Kevin.
Title: Re: The listeners
Post by: Mavcat on July 24, 2007, 08:36:38 AM
Quote from: Kevin F on July 24, 2007, 08:31:06 AM
Excellent image, great work. Don't see no lightning though! Do you guys mean lighting?
Kevin.

Yes...  ::)
Title: Re: The listeners
Post by: mr-miley on July 24, 2007, 09:00:24 AM
Lightning?.... lightning????? I wasn't aware of adding any lightning *opens up TGTP and checks Objects* Nope, can't see no lightning!  :D
Title: Re: The listeners
Post by: rcallicotte on July 24, 2007, 09:08:18 AM
Nice job all the way around. 

Reminds me of a beginning scene for C & C.   ::)
Title: Re: The listeners
Post by: mr-miley on July 24, 2007, 09:12:07 AM
Calico,

Go on, What's C & C? You have my curiousity now  ;D
Title: Re: The listeners
Post by: rcallicotte on July 24, 2007, 09:23:12 AM
http://www.ea.com/official/cc/firstdecade/us/index.jsp

;D
Title: Re: The listeners
Post by: old_blaggard on July 24, 2007, 09:27:30 AM
Nice job.  I like the foreground lighting, and the object is interesting.  The back seems a bit lacking, though, and I'm personally not a fan of the low clouds below the camera.  As I said, though, the foreground is very well done.
Title: Re: The listeners
Post by: Tangled-Universe on July 24, 2007, 09:45:11 AM
Everything has been said I think :) Very nice work, looks terrific!

I really like the volumetrics of your clouds. The low and dense plane makes it hard to see how nice these volumetrics are. Maybe you could adjust the coverage a little?
Title: Re: The listeners
Post by: inkydigit on July 24, 2007, 02:32:49 PM
cant wait to see it big....oooer!!!...excellent idea and realization...keep at it!
Title: Re: The listeners
Post by: mr-miley on July 24, 2007, 06:03:59 PM
Calico... Ta for that, now I know what you are talking about... see what you mean  ;)

old_blaggard... yeah, I agree, the back is a bit lacking, I'll have to do something about that

Tangled-Universe.... Be like a good doctor and have some patients  ;D

inkydigit... Ta, glad you like it. We share a similar sense of humor

ta

miles
Title: Re: The listeners
Post by: mr-miley on July 25, 2007, 03:58:37 AM
OK, here's a larger version of the above. There is another version on its way, BUT its at 21 hours 14 mins and its not half way through yet sooooo, you'll have to wait!  :)
Title: Re: The listeners
Post by: rcallicotte on July 25, 2007, 09:59:09 AM
Beautiful.  Looks real. 

I think we need to remember how real doesn't even look real sometimes.  But, this looks real to me.
Title: Re: The listeners
Post by: Volker Harun on July 25, 2007, 10:11:10 AM
The amount of detail in some renders is able to kill imagination.
You have seen previews that looked very promising, but rendered they got boring?

This means that your brain has sufficent informations - there is no need for fantasy which may lead to fantastic.

This image has some dreamy greens (at first I wrote gras though there is no visible gras - just green), I get lost by looking at these.
Title: Re: The listeners
Post by: moodflow on July 25, 2007, 11:22:10 AM
Definitely a nice one here!

Those towers could pass for Tesla Towers... then we would see lightning!
Title: Re: The listeners
Post by: rcallicotte on July 25, 2007, 12:33:14 PM
Brilliant assessment.  I want to explore this idea more.

Quote from: Volker Harun on July 25, 2007, 10:11:10 AM
The amount of detail in some renders is able to kill imagination.
You have seen previews that looked very promising, but rendered they got boring?

This means that your brain has sufficent informations - there is no need for fantasy which may lead to fantastic.

Title: Re: The listeners
Post by: old_blaggard on July 25, 2007, 01:20:14 PM
Well put, Volker.
Title: Re: The listeners
Post by: Harvey Birdman on July 25, 2007, 02:18:58 PM
That's a great one. Really good.