Igor's renderings

igor · 22 Apr 2008, 01:49

new render baking! just playing around w/reflection and light.
btw, does podium support projected textures? i cant seem to get mine to work. and podium doesnt support light refraction, does it? that why the glass ball im rendering looks hollow...

igor · 22 Apr 2008, 02:15

ok ok! im sorry for having like, 5 post in a row.
anyway...
heres the finished render!
the second one is me trying at projected textures... and failing. podium aparantly doesnt like projected textures.

solo · 22 Apr 2008, 02:16

What do you mean by projected textures?

igor · 22 Apr 2008, 02:48

a projected texture is when you - wait for it - project a texture! you know how when you put a texture on a curved face, i becomes all tilled and everything, filling in the little squares of the hidden geometry. if you project it, you get a nice, smooth, seamless texture. ill try to get some examples

solo · 22 Apr 2008, 02:53

Okay so as I understand you used the project texture feature within SU, what I do not understand is how Podium 'does not like' them?
I use projected textures on most of my curved faces without any issue, I assumed maybe you meant bumped textures.

Have you tried projecting a bump texture? that way the render will have the appearance of a relieved texture.

solo · 22 Apr 2008, 03:04

Ah!!

Explode the bowl, while it is still hi-lighted make it a group. The texture will adjust and you can then scale as you please using the editor and it will then render just fine.

igor · 22 Apr 2008, 03:04

no, i mean that i can have a seamless textured bowl (with projected texture), and when i render it, it looks all tiled and everything. and it looks like the texture is really tinny, even if i scale it up. what gives?

oh and btw, im not yet using bumps, so you can scratch out that option.

solo · 22 Apr 2008, 03:05

One other thing, copy texture and apply to reverse side too.

igor · 22 Apr 2008, 03:19

it worked!!! thanks solo, sorry if i kinda snapped at you before, i was just kinda ticked at SU...

oh and thankd for the texture tip above. but wait, what is it supposed to do?

solo · 22 Apr 2008, 04:40

Great to see it worked out.

Below is a very fast idea of what a bump can do on a projected surface, excuse the crude low poly domes.

igor · 24 Apr 2008, 02:17

im starting a new series! its baisicly just me playing around w/ reflective TINs. a render is baking as i type, should be ready in an hour or so.

igor · 24 Apr 2008, 03:00

here is one!

incase the image thing doesnt work heres the link:
http://s256.photobucket.com/albums/hh173/imacarfreak/?action=view&current=20080423200516_36m34s.png

igor · 24 Apr 2008, 13:39

here is another, completed over night! oh, and this thread just reached a thousand views!!!!!
btw, can some one else please reply? i feel kinda bad when its me posting like 5 times in a row.

ok, the file is too big to upload, so here:

gir! the thing wont work! heres the link:
http://s256.photobucket.com/albums/hh173/imacarfreak/?action=view&current=20080424064728_10h31m12s.png

remus · 24 Apr 2008, 16:51

wow, that one was going for a long time, did you use noisy settings?

igor · 24 Apr 2008, 23:21

yep. here's another. left it on noisy whil i was @ school. once again it wont fit in the post, (could it have something to do with the fact that i always format the renders as PNGs?) here it is:

or incase that doesnt work here is the link:
http://s256.photobucket.com/albums/hh173/imacarfreak/?action=view&current=20080424162954_8h53m23s.png
why does the image thing keep not working! i got it wo work before. is there a trick?

igor · 25 Apr 2008, 02:45

alright, i rendered another one while i was out at dinner. i tried to get the two spires to reflect off eachother, and im shure they did, but i cant see it! i will once again try to get the image to apear here, but ill probly end up posting a link.

or the link, if the image doesnt show up (agian) i heard something about a file server somewhere. where you you could upload a file regardless of size. where is that?
http://s256.photobucket.com/albums/hh173/imacarfreak/?action=view&current=20080424194835_2h44m55s.png

igor · 25 Apr 2008, 13:37

heres another. if youve noticed, its just me playing around with how the TIN reflects on the spheres and the floor. i havnt made any changes to the scene.

igor · 26 Apr 2008, 22:38

here is another, sorry if you dont like the blue tinting.

igor · 28 Apr 2008, 19:56

shhh! im letting another one render during math class (its boring and i already know the stuff). just more reflective TINs. nothing special... almost

igor · 30 Apr 2008, 00:07

ok, i lied. the render during math didnt turn out too well (the render didnt turn out well, everything else was fine). but ive go another baking right as i type. its nothing special, just me playing around w/ extremly high poly spheres. it almost crashed my computer! just one sphere has 5000 faces!

ps. can someone pleas reply? i mean, besides me. i would like some helpful critisism. plus no one has responded to this thread for a while besides me and possibly Remus. thanks!