The Renderfarm

Jonathan

7:06 PM

@NoviceInDisguise looks super cool! I would stylize it with the textures.

NoviceInDisguise

As I said, I am still blocking it out ;)

I haven't even finished the basic modelling yet

I tend to model, rig, and then add materials

Sometimes I will do it in sections though, so I complete one section then move on

Jonathan

so if you still model it further I'd also put more style into the meshes.

or it rather depends on what you will use it for? so what do you use it for? lol

NoviceInDisguise

lol

@Jonathan I am planning on it. As I said, this is the basic blocking out of the scene. Now i will go in and model all the detail things like cables and pipes and such

Jonathan

Is it just for fun or will you use it for something else?

GiantCowFilms

@NoviceInDisguise When those top panels drop it would be cool for a ripple effect

Starting from opposite sides

NoviceInDisguise

7:11 PM

@GiantCowFilms ?

GiantCowFilms

The grill mesh ones that are the secound thing to move

NoviceInDisguise

@Jonathan Mostly for learning. I fit is good enough i will shelve it for my demoreel

GiantCowFilms

Yellow Pannels

then Top Panels

then Inside Panels

The top panels currently drop the split into two as they open

Jonathan

man that mechanism of those "inner bridges" looks pretty damn advanced even if the rig might be rather simple.

GiantCowFilms

I though it would be cool if each one of the four segments dropped and split individually in succession.

NoviceInDisguise

7:12 PM

@GiantCowFilms Oh I see

Hmm

GiantCowFilms

Bascially take that animation and divide it into four offset pieces

NoviceInDisguise

That might take too long though for practical purposes

GiantCowFilms

Not at all

the offset could be two or three frames

Jonathan

@GiantCowFilms so that they open in an order with a delay? nice idea!

GiantCowFilms

Very small delay

NoviceInDisguise

7:13 PM

@GiantCowFilms Hmm, I'll have to try that

Just to add some ordered randomness to it

GiantCowFilms

Yes

Jonathan

it kind of lacks the nuke which emerges from it :P

GiantCowFilms

Offsets are one of the easiest ways to add complexity into your animation

Jonathan

or the mecha-godzilla

GiantCowFilms

@Jonathan @X-27 Can you spare us somthing????

Jonathan

7:17 PM

@GiantCowFilms how do you mean that?

GiantCowFilms

@Jonathan @X-27 is our local megalomanica

he will have the needed nuke

NoviceInDisguise

@Jonathan Oh I'll come up with something :)

Jonathan

@GiantCowFilms oh I see ^^

GiantCowFilms

@NoviceInDisguise How about a cupcake

so its like a gag

NoviceInDisguise

XD

This massive mech comes up slowly on an elevator, and slowly tramps towards the camera

Cut to: Opens mouth

Cupcake comes out on tongue

GiantCowFilms

7:19 PM

Ewww

I would not eat that

Jonathan

haha soething like that xD

NoviceInDisguise

@GiantCowFilms It is a metal tongue

GiantCowFilms

You should just add more and more layers to that vault until the remaining space is cupcake sized

that would be epic

@NoviceInDisguise still

NoviceInDisguise

@GiantCowFilms That would

Make it store one coin or something

GiantCowFilms

A penny

NoviceInDisguise

7:21 PM

XD

Jonathan

like that super complex animation of panels and bridges opening, steam outlets going wild and in the end it just delivers a cup of coffee.

NoviceInDisguise

Exactly

Jonathan

7:39 PM

Recently tried to get terrain looking like this: youtube.com/watch?v=yQ-k6VBo5Fw And I'm really struggling to get a compromise between a displace modifier on just a plane (which looks most like the picture) and a displace modifier on a sculpted hill (which is necessary if I want to model the terrain for a game map).

The thing is, I kind of need to sculpt/shape the area but the plane version just looks goddamn awesome.

NoviceInDisguise

Way too much specular, but looks pretty good

Low res textures tho

Jonathan

@NoviceInDisguise yup low res textures just for test and the specular just to see the results of the normal map

thx btw ^^

NoviceInDisguise

Good :D

I imagined there was a reason for it

TARDIS Maker

@GiantCowFilms I just realized what you linked to in this post! :D

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A: Funny Questions

How to I puree? I downloaded BLENDER and am now trying to make a smoothy. I seem to be unable to put fruit in. I tried the USB ports but only the carrorts when in. So me DECIDED TO MAKE STUPID CARROT SMOOTH BUT I CANNNNNNOOOOT find the puree button... I also want to make a photoreaistic portrait...

You've gotten an up vote for that

GiantCowFilms

;D

FINALY!!!! The large moo moo has revealed his age!!!!! — X-27 6 hours ago

XD XD XD

TARDIS Maker

7:49 PM

I didn't get that

Oh, wait, are you 21?

Or is that a random number?

made up to confuse us

so that we all die painful deaths

in our parents basements

or you're 6

I have to say though, I feel sorry for this fictional poster... so sad... so pathetic...

:)

Jonathan

I'd actually like a smoothie right now, smells like camouflaged advertising.

TARDIS Maker

@Jonathan Well, make one!

You've got a Blender!

;)

Jonathan

@TARDISMaker but noone answered the question yet arrrggghhh ^^

NoviceInDisguise

What question?

TARDIS Maker

1

A: Funny Questions

How to I puree? I downloaded BLENDER and am now trying to make a smoothy. I seem to be unable to put fruit in. I tried the USB ports but only the carrorts when in. So me DECIDED TO MAKE STUPID CARROT SMOOTH BUT I CANNNNNNOOOOT find the puree button... I also want to make a photoreaistic portrait...

Jonathan

7:54 PM

this fun question giantcowfilms has posted :D

NoviceInDisguise

Oh

The realistic portrait part sounds like it will hurt

Jonathan

I highly appreciate your steadiness though :*

TARDIS Maker

@Jonathan Did you UV it then?

UV mine!

:D

Jonathan

@TARDISMaker UV whut? The smoothie?

TARDIS Maker

@Jonathan My answers on that competition!

Jonathan

7:57 PM

@TARDISMaker Tried UVing it with alt+f4, I always have to restart Blender!?!?! Help plz?!?!

TARDIS Maker

Don't if you don't think they're funny though

@NoviceInDisguise did you see my response?

NoviceInDisguise

Yep

TARDIS Maker

Now, I need to make a question based off of this

NoviceInDisguise

Anybody remember this:

Aug 3 at 22:49, by NoviceInDisguise

My favorite saying: "Behave or I'll render you in my Blender!"

TARDIS Maker

I think so

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A: Funny Questions

Rendering a bookshelf So yesterday, I finished modeling my bookshelf. It took a few hours, and it was really difficult, but I got it done. So today, I was planning on focusing on rendering. So I hit the render button, and the book shelf showed up, but it seemed pretty normal to me. I tried a fe...

UV IT!!!!!!!!

NOW

and don't star this

3

Man, we've got 18 answers on that thread

that's a lot

and I'm sure there are going to be more

Jonathan

8:06 PM

@TARDISMaker just gave you my lofty advice to your question

TARDIS Maker

@Jonathan And I just replied

@Jonathan just replied again, and there is a reason why I said cake and not pizza

Jonathan

@TARDISMaker You got my final advice on this now. If this still doesnt answer your question, only the gods can.

TARDIS Maker

8:25 PM

@Jonathan Thanks for your effort in aiding my useless bookshelf. Please see my reply.

Jonathan

@TARDISMaker I'm so glad I could help you out ^^

btw I know why you said cake not pizza. Hearing the P-word makes me go like:

NoviceInDisguise

I am really tempted to interrupt right now . . .

Jonathan

this gifbin.com/bin/022012/1339605827_excited_fan.gif

@NoviceInDisguise couldnt upload the gif, fail lol :P

NoviceInDisguise

:P

TARDIS Maker

8:44 PM

@Jonathan No, the cake is a like

:D

Jonathan

cake?

TARDIS Maker

@Jonathan you haven't played Portal/Portal 2, have you? :|

Jonathan

@TARDISMaker I know it and think I played it or some flash game ripoff once... why, is it a reference?

TARDIS Maker

@Jonathan Yes

A very big one

Has anyone else played Portal/Portal 2 and knows what my joke is?

Jonathan

@TARDISMaker now I look stupid... gifbin.com/981432

NoviceInDisguise

8:56 PM

Nope :P

I don't play games much

AoE 3 is as far as I ever got

Jonathan

aoe was such a classic

NoviceInDisguise

It was a lot of fun to play :D

Started taking too much time though

And expert wasn't hard enough

Jonathan

not with big daddy hehehe

@TARDISMaker btw what was the joke? ^^

TARDIS Maker

@Jonathan The cake is a lie

NoviceInDisguise

Made some progress with the cargo bay thingy, added another element and animated it

TARDIS Maker

9:01 PM

In the game the robot GLaDOS tells you that there will be cake once you finish the tests

NoviceInDisguise

lol

TARDIS Maker

But in some "hidden" rooms, on the walls it's written, "The cake is a lie"

NoviceInDisguise

That is awesome

TARDIS Maker

Yup :)

Jonathan

I just googled it, now I get it too :D

TARDIS Maker

9:02 PM

Do you get my choice of wording now?

Jonathan

I did indeed.

TARDIS Maker

When I typed this

18 mins ago, by TARDIS Maker

@Jonathan No, the cake is a like

Jonathan

btw gotta love that typical valve humor

TARDIS Maker

I orignally was going to say lie, but it turned out as like

I changed it to lie, but I thought it would be funnier if it said like

@Jonathan Yup

Jonathan

@NoviceInDisguise what does it look like now?

@TARDISMaker shame on me for just playing a flash game ripoff lol

NoviceInDisguise

9:05 PM

More complex. I am going to have to conserve on layers, that is for sure

Keeping stuff organized properly helps so much

TARDIS Maker

@Jonathan If you ever get a chance to play the game, do it

It's a lot of fun

Jonathan

guys I just made some noob mistake, it didnt do this before. When I use a displace modifier on a plane it looks like this:

the modifier settings are:

texture coordinates on local, direction on normal

i scaled the plane up but applied the scale

and the texture image mapping is set to clip

NoviceInDisguise

:P

What if you set it to repeat?

Scale in edit mode in future

Jonathan

I usually do that

NoviceInDisguise

Good

Jonathan

9:18 PM

could easily solve this with coordinates set to UV and unwrap the plane but this bugs me now where the issue lies.

scaling in edit mode does the same, setting to repeat would not be the desired result.

found it out:

applying the scale was the problem, you have to not apply it basically

So if you guys ever encounter this problem: dont scale the object in edit mode and dont apply scaling in object mode before you apply the modfier

Jonathan

9:52 PM

btw here is some high res version of the terrain technique, looks way better now:

NoviceInDisguise

11:18 PM

Not bad at all!

TARDIS Maker

@Jonathan That looks 3D scanned

Is is just sculpted with a displacement on it?

You never really realize how epic the music from Christopher Nolan's Batman Trilogy is until you listen to it without anything else above it

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