Snowy Pinecone - Christmas Challenge Tut

[Rich O Brien]

Thnks Eric

Excellent approach

[dale]

Thanks for coming thru with this. It is a really great little tut.

[david_h]

very beautiful and elegant model. Nicely done.

I hate you. . . .

Jus Kiddin' !!!!

[Box]

Very nice to watch, just one small question.

You appeared to turn the surfaces inside out, the silver gray colour as your working surface rather than the white, I have always thought the white side was the outside.
Am I wrong and it doesn't matter, or is it only relevant when rendering or something else?

[boofredlay]

You are right on both accounts. The blue in my model is the back side. It does not matter which color you make the front or back, that is user preference. However if you are going to use a rendering software it is good practice to always have the front face oriented correctly, facing outward.

In this example however I was actually showing how each skin was a different group. Yes I should have just reversed the bottom left one.

Now for the third step, arranging the cone scales, you will notice the faces are correct. I actually exploded all of the skins into one component.

[Box]

Thanks Eric,
I still haven't done any rendering, but it's good to know I am thinking the right way.

[david_h]

@box said:

I still haven't done any rendering. . .

Good thing. .. .You just don't wanna go there. Rendering Software is like the mob. . .Once you're in .. . You can never get out.

[arklandesign]

Thank you so much for taking the time to explain how you did this.... it was a real eye opener for me. I tried doing this myself...and just have to laugh at my attempts now having seen your way of doing this...Amazing and thanks again.

[pilou]

Does it possible to have movies in reduction? (or a trick)
Original is too big for my screen and seems there is not possible to reduce it

[boofredlay]

Not unless I do it again with a smaller screen grab window, sorry.

[Jean-Franco]

Very nice tutorial Eric, thanks !

[nomeradona]

bravo...

[pilou]

@unknownuser said:

sorry.

No problem, i will use scroll bars

[mitcorb]

In WindowsXP and Firefox, usually you can Ctrl+Scroll, but this does not affect the clip window, as you have already discovered.

[pankaj_tamore]

By looking at your snowy pinecones only one question making rounds in mind how you have achieved this incredible shape? hats off!

[boofredlay]

Thanks Pankaj.
Unfortunately the videos I made were disabled because it was a free Jing account and the bandwidth has been used up.
I will have to remake the tutorial at some time as those are now lost.

I will tell you however that I used the Curviloft plugin to create the shape then copied and rotated it many times.

[derei]

@unknownuser said:

Thanks Pankaj.
Unfortunately the videos I made were disabled because it was a free Jing account and the bandwidth has been used up.
I will have to remake the tutorial at some time as those are now lost.

I will tell you however that I used the Curviloft plugin to create the shape then copied and rotated it many times.

can you upload on youtube? It seems a simple process, but I'd like to see it in action; I'm sure I'll learn something.
Thank you.

[boofredlay]

I will when I get the chance to remake the tutorial. The Jing content was disabled when my bandwidth ran out and I don't even have access to it.

[derei]

@unknownuser said:

I will when I get the chance to remake the tutorial. The Jing content was disabled when my bandwidth ran out and I don't even have access to it.

(kinda off-topic) good to know. I was tempted to use Jing some time ago (i like the way it looks). Now I'll know to listen to my instinct all the time (the instinct told me not to)

(now back) Thank you Boofredlay, I appreciate your (soon to be) effort !

[boofredlay]

Sure thing. Jing is good and I like it very much however I had not planned on purchasing the full version as I had my eye on something else. I could have downloaded the tutorials and converted them but I was too late. My fault.