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    • olisheaO Offline
      olishea
      last edited by

      The sphere could have less faces....but the shell needs to be higher poly IMO. I tried to subdivide in wings one more time but sketchup wouldn't import the geometry properly. strange results. The renderer can handle much much more than this though. its sketchup thats the problem not twilight.

      Render time was about 16 hours πŸ˜„ the hdri was low quality giving noisy results so i had to wait wait wait!

      Got another one in the oven, macro style!

      Cheers for the comments, it was a fun one! πŸ˜„

      oli

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      • artysmediaA Offline
        artysmedia
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        Like the final render! Good job! πŸ˜„

        Working with: Win7 64 bit OS - Core i5 - 2,27GHz and 8GB RAM

        Blog: Artysmedia

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        • S Offline
          steelers05
          last edited by

          loving the texture oli

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          • K Offline
            KarinaGM
            last edited by

            Wow! how did you mapped that geometry?
            The images are great! πŸŽ‰

            **"Aquel que sacrifica un poco de libertad por seguridad, no se merece ninguna y terminarΓ‘ perdiendo ambas"

            -BenjamΓ­n Franklin.**

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            • olisheaO Offline
              olishea
              last edited by

              Thanks very much guys!! πŸ‘ its my new screensaver lol

              I actually used Whaat's UV tools plugin to texture. It worked surprisingly well first time. I just used spherical projection and it magically mapped the scratchmap perfectly! So many thanks to Whaat! It would have looked terrible if bumpmap was wrong. In Twilight you can easily bump a flat colour and apply a material template.

              Watch this space, macro shot on the way πŸ˜„

              oli

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              • jo-keJ Offline
                jo-ke
                last edited by

                I thought whaat's plugin is "just" an exporter, to texture in an extern programm. which programm did you use to set the texture?

                btw: your renders look really brilliant!

                http://www.zz7.de

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                • michaliszissiouM Offline
                  michaliszissiou
                  last edited by

                  Not exactly jo-ke. There are more goodies there. As an exporter is not as good as the build in obj exporter of SU pro. But its an interesting project.

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                  • FrederikF Offline
                    Frederik
                    last edited by

                    Don't know which of Whaat's UV-mapping plugins Oli have used, but based on Oli's comment...

                    @unknownuser said:

                    I actually used Whaat's UV tools plugin to texture. It worked surprisingly well first time. I just used spherical projection and it magically mapped the scratchmap perfectly!

                    ...I assume it's the [Plugin] UVTools v0.1, since it's capable of mapping a spherical object...

                    Cheers
                    Kim Frederik

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                    • michaliszissiouM Offline
                      michaliszissiou
                      last edited by

                      I think so too Frederik.

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                      • olisheaO Offline
                        olishea
                        last edited by

                        Yeah I textured everything in sketchup. no external app used for texturing.

                        you just set either spherical or cylindrical mapping. you can then scale the texture through sketchups material window...make it bigger or smaller depending on your needs. the UV tools menu is in........edit>surface>UV tools>Spherical Map. Just select your surface first. I think you can select the UV tools by right clicking too.

                        screens shot:

                        note: where it says "804 entities" it normally says "surface".

                        http://i654.photobucket.com/albums/uu269/olishea/Picture1-1.png

                        http://i654.photobucket.com/albums/uu269/olishea/Picture2.png

                        thanks for all the lovely comments! πŸ˜„

                        oli

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                        • jo-keJ Offline
                          jo-ke
                          last edited by

                          Wow! I didn't knew that plugin. that is exactly what I'm looking for. I just started to download it.

                          http://www.zz7.de

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                          • EscapeArtistE Offline
                            EscapeArtist
                            last edited by

                            Preeeeeeety. Shiiiiiney.

                            Very nice! πŸ‘

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                            • olisheaO Offline
                              olishea
                              last edited by

                              Cheers mate!

                              Here is a macro shot and a geometry overlay!

                              http://i654.photobucket.com/albums/uu269/olishea/orb2.jpg

                              http://i654.photobucket.com/albums/uu269/olishea/orb2_geometry.jpg

                              FULL RESOLUTION VERSION HERE:

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                              (twilightrender.com)

                              oli

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                              • D Offline
                                D-space
                                last edited by

                                Awesome close up & overlays. πŸ˜„

                                http://blibestmentalt.no/54981

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                                • olisheaO Offline
                                  olishea
                                  last edited by

                                  Cheers mate. It wasn't easy!

                                  Here is an ice finish.

                                  http://i654.photobucket.com/albums/uu269/olishea/34_small.jpg

                                  oli

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                                  • FrederikF Offline
                                    Frederik
                                    last edited by

                                    You're smoking hot with TWR, Oli...
                                    http://www.kerkythea.net/users/Frederik/Anim-Icons/thumbup.gif

                                    Cheers
                                    Kim Frederik

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                                    • D Offline
                                      D-space
                                      last edited by

                                      One nice shot for the gallery! 😲

                                      http://blibestmentalt.no/54981

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                                      • pilouP Offline
                                        pilou
                                        last edited by

                                        @ Olishea
                                        You have not tryed Sculptris? πŸ˜‰
                                        Seems there are possibility of some analogy with these tortuous spherical works πŸ˜„

                                        Frenchy Pilou
                                        Is beautiful that please without concept!
                                        My Little site :)

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                                        • daleD Offline
                                          dale
                                          last edited by

                                          If this object were ever manufactured, it would be cool to have the geometry etched into the surface. It actually really looks good.

                                          Just monkeying around....like Monsanto

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                                          • olisheaO Offline
                                            olishea
                                            last edited by

                                            Thanks D-space (what's your name by the way?)

                                            Frederik, I think its Twilight thats smoking hot not me! It does what you expect, so easy to get good results and very stable.

                                            I forgot about Sculptris, cheers. Although I want to stay with mac only software. I HATE windows and only use it for Twilight, I will give Sculptirs a whirl though. The real daddy of these apps is Blender. I dunno why I always go for spheres, kinda majestic.

                                            Dale: Imagine polishing the surface! ooh it would be so nice. labour of love! When I go back to uni in September I will 3D print this model and place a bulb inside it. You could subdivide and smooth it further......with sandpaper πŸ˜„

                                            oli

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