Posts made by Gaieus

Points taken, Eric - you are right in both things.
That's why I posted them; I've been looking / checking them for too long and my eyes just skip a lot of details for they're "used to them".

Thanks for the suggestions (though this weekend a lot of the movies will be rendered - at least for a "first shot").

Here's just a short "example" ( just a "cut-out" or "part" of a whole movie):

[flash=640,480:1e5rp77f]http://www.gaieus.hu/su/videos/karmelit_proba.swf[/flash:1e5rp77f]

Two more shots of the cathedral:

Just a little bit "improved" animation test - still with no textures...

[flash=480,384:xdkio4rb]http://www.gaieus.hu/su/videos/baziluj.swf[/flash:xdkio4rb]

Ah, thanks, really... (I also worked for that site - I wrote most of the texts and the lame English translations... )

Thanks Ivica, in fact, true, I am more interested in the modelling part (also by "profession") so I'm not "shy"

I also "play around" with rendering a bit, try out this and that but I will never become a 3D artist in this field (especially having seen some of you guys' renders here).

Enough for me is that when we work together, I can criticize (well, "comment" and "suggest") things and tell ways what should be done to change the model/render and that I know (more or less) whether it can be done or not. That's already a big help to the guy I'm working with for dealing with a total amateaur can really be a problem sometimes (I guess a lot of you know that feeling).

As I said, a "colleague" of mine is doing the rendering stuff. I can't really follow what he's doing - I was the modeller he is the renderer.

eeva, solo, thanks...

As I said above (http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?p=554#p554) the render is not mine. The SU model (that I made) was "dressed up" with materials/entourage in 3DS Max so the transition is due to that program, not to SU (and my special skills).
I only originally textured the model to give the guy a clue how I imagine it. It's a kind of co-operation (though I'm beginning to be a newbie in 3DS Max already )

But could you believe that the SU model (which also included trees and bushes - and the buildings are also modelled from inside) is no bigger than 7 megs?
I couldn't have handled it otherwise - on my current, slow machine...

Solo, what procedural plans do you mean?

Tinanne,

Unfortunately most of these buildings are gone by now (though we have other ones - and most of the town walls are still intact). Yet the city is still nice, check this sightseeing tour out!

Well, this is supposed to be late summer early autumn (fall) so the yellowish grass is OK.

However those blossoming trees kind of seem to be weird at the same time (of the year) so - see - there is already a contributive comment that brings thoughts into my mind!

Thanks, buddy!

Some more contributive comments, Eric?

A WIP is usually seeking helpful critiques!

Some more "in the finish" (entourage and "life" still to be added). Some fog (and global light) was also added to avoid too sharp contours and shades.
Ah yeah, and the buildings are modelled from inside, too. Ribbed Gothic vaults and such...

Well, two more animation tests then...
[flash=480,384:3kvabmuo]http://www.gaieus.hu/su/videos/dominik_cam.swf[/flash:3kvabmuo]
and
[flash=480,384:3kvabmuo]http://www.gaieus.hu/su/videos/karmelita_cam.swf[/flash:3kvabmuo]

Thanks Mike - shame we cannot all see them!

Eric - believe me, that's also some plan for the future - virtual travel in time, interactively etc. We just need to find the ways (and put some exciting stuff except for monsters to shoot )

And a little animation test (very much compressed for downoading time) where some of the "rest" of the town can also be seen:
[flash=482,388:2trd9p87]http://www.gaieus.hu/su/videos/bazil_cam.swf[/flash:2trd9p87]

Thanks Eric, and Kriss - after all this is how the "palette is full" isn't it?
Here is a pic of the cathedral as it is now - "rebuilt" into its "original", 12-13th century form (of course this is what romanticism was just all about...)

You can still see the original town walls and such (little too much entourage though - well this was not made in SU for sure )

And Bill, too... (cross-posting )
Actually the height was also changed during the reconstruction between 1880 and 1891 but at least it was all recorded already...
Also, the credits for the render is not mine - I'm just "learning" 3DS Max now (and cannot afford it so only play with it when at the dudes place we are working together now).

Thanks, Cheffey,

People, entourage, background, houses etc. will all be added (now just turned off for a quick material and lighting render).
Also animations etc.

This September 640 years ago was the first univerity in my home town (actually in the whole country) founded and it will be e virtual tour back to those times - with special emphasis on the buildings (monasteries, cathedral etc) where it may have been working.
It will be part of an exhibition (and as I believ a whole website) with these models as "visualization" of the era...
There are some more pics at http://www.gaieus.hu/GothicPecs/ (with the WIP 3DS Max renderings at the very bottom).

Well,

A while ago I ran across this problem of someone in the "Old Forums" - he needed an (Ionic or Corinthian way) fluted column, more exactly he wanted to know how to create one. Although when needed, I usually make it in a different way but then I had to find out something he could understand (i. e. I could explain).

So here it is - in a way that I used Scenes for the step-by-step tutorial. It postulates that one can already make half and quarter spheres and is aware of the nature of alignment.

The column has 20 "cannelures"(flutes) and also has an "enthasis" (tapered in a bulging way) but no pedestal or capital.

Enjoy

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fluted_column_tutorial.skp

Well, this is the cathedral in my town about 600-700 years ago. Modelled in SU and is under 3DS Max "addons" and rendering.

A somewhat similar view (NE instead of SE) in SU, with no texturing yet (it's just not for the "renders" gallery... )

Nagyon szívesen...
"Kettévágtam" az előző témát, hogy ez (ahol már másról van szó) külön legyen.

Tibor,

Most ugyan sejtem, hogy melyik scriptről van szó, de kérlek, máskor csatrold a linket a topichoz (még jobb, ha magához a beíráshoz), hogy megnézhessem!

Nos, ez szkript valójában egy objektumnak (pl. egy fal vagy kocka vagy akármi) a térfogatát számítja ki (a volume nemcsak kötetet jelent, hanem mennyiséget - itt pontosan térfogatot - is).
Nem használtam még a szkriptet, úgyhogy nem tudom, hogy működik.

Itt arról van most szó, hogy (menet közben) lehet választani, milyen rétegre kerüljön, elrejtse-e a felületeket, éleket, milyen színű legyen stb.