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Subject: new challenge idea...
That is a reference to the book or movie "The Wizard of Oz." Oz is a magical land and a girl called dorothy goes there, and she is looking for "the wonderful wizard of oz" who can help her get home again. She meets up with some other folks who also want to find the wizard and they are told to "follow the yellow brick road" (which they sing a long and fairly entertaining song about in the movie). The yellow brick road leads to the emerald city, which is a city made of emerald (the green jewel), where the wizard lives. Pretty much every child in america grows up watching this movie on television or video, and it has a lot of neat images in it--flying monkeys, a wicked witch, a talking scarecrow, a tin man. If you've never seen it it's worth tracking down! Which small island do you live on, by the way? Mary
Mary - Looks like I have to visit the library and que up with the kids. I amy even find myself in a tussle with the children there...LOL! Btw, island is Singapore. Mike - I heard of that song by Elton but never knew it is related to "The Wizard of Oz". Looks like a lot been missing in me childhood days :) Bill
Well, "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" was a part of the soundtrack to "The Whiz", a musical, which was a Broadway play in the mid-late '70's, and was loosely based on the original Wizard of Oz movie which * I think* came out in 1934, starring Judy Garland (Liza minnelli's mom), and, err, uhh, some other people...LOL
Wait a minute...I all of a sudden can't remember if the song was actually part of the play or not, or just a coincidence....hmmmm.....Oh well, that was a long time ago! Sacred, I haven't ttried this yet, but I think the details for it were in the other thread originally by jarm. Hmmm...guess I oughta stroll on over there and have a look. ;) --Mike
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Beck, just start by applying the builtin "paths in the grass" material to the ground. Then you can zoom in on a nice one and start sticking trees and stuff in there. However I *think* that path material uses a function to make the paths, layering a grass material over some other material for the paths, so I'm going to try to change the underlying material to a yellow brick (yellow brick map avail. at my site, by the way, in the vue tutorial)
well my blonde roots have severely become inground Mary. I have tried and tried....checked and d/l your tutorial, but nope.....I'm too stupid to work it out. I think I'll sit back in the corner with my dunce cap on and watch the big kids do this one....I might just see something that will make it stay aboveground in my brain long enough. Beck
um...it's a magic road! Yeah, it's pretty darn straight, because I put the same griddy material mix on the terrain. Doing a windy road would involve another function...which would be hard! But I might try it, since I have to go back in and put sir mike's foot on the ground (that's the daz knight with mike's head...). I suppose I could just have trees going up the mountain and let people intuit that part of the road... Mary
I discovered that it's actually very easy to replace the head and make a permanent figure...I'm working on a tutorial. Basically for this figure I exported mike's head and neck as an obj, then imported them, positioned them properly and used the grouping tool to "spawn props". Then you just pick the head and the neck and do "replace body part with prop" for each. That gives you a figure with no head morphs at all, so you use morph manager to transfer the head morphs from mike to sir mike and voila, a perfectly good figure without a dorky head. Tute will be up on the site as soon as I can pull it together. (Since I can't distribute the figure when he's made this way) Mary
Mary.....your tin man is awesome!!! After losing nearly 75% of my hair and starting on poor Bill's hair..and boy did he scream!!!!...I finally tried something else. I created a seperate terrain and made that my path. If I could only work out how to change the orientation of the bricks I would be happier...however, here is what I have for moment. ANY advice and suggestions on this WIP would be gratefully accepted...just ask Bill ;) I don't think he can take me pulling out any MORE of his hair LOL Beck ps. Can I borrow your tinman? ;)
Wow, great stuff from everyone! Beck, don't feel bad about using a terrain--your picture looks great. Are you using the default brick texture? I'm not sure if you can rotate it inside the function but you can edit the bmp file if you want to turn it. Also you could experiment with different mapping styles.--it defaults to automatic, but sometimes the faces or spherical might work better...
Well, to be honest with you, Beck, I modeled the street corner pieces in Max (finally figured out that boolean thingie...Yay!) They're in two parts - the outer curb and the inner sidewalk. You just stick 'em together and then texture as you want. I've got to zip them up and stick 'em in free stuff one of these days, I guess. As for the rest, I simply created a basic "city block" group, put a charcoal gray asphalt texture on the ground plane and then dropped my blocks where I wanted them. the park is hollow and filled with a couple of low terrains. The buildings are from Bauments Mesh 3 CD. The perspectives are still a little off as far as the distances between blocks being to scale. My streets are a little wide. Once I get the basic layout done, I'm going to do an overhead shot and use that as a template for actually modeling the streets so I can put in crosswalks and speed markings and such. IF I ever get over this stupid head cold, that is. :) Kate
Mary.....thankyou for your tips...I will get back to my drawing board again. Kate....you worked out Max? grrrrrrr I have had my version of 3.1 since October last year, and I still can't figure how to modify that damn teapot! LOL Im sorry you are feeling sick...head colds are a pain in the .....! I hope u feel better soon. Maybe you could do what my kids do...spend some time with someone who's not sick, and pass it on...usually that gets rid of it for them! But guess who they pass it on to?;) Beck
LOL...I got the darn cold from hubby and the nephew...lord only knows where they got it. sometimes I wish they didn't believe so much in sharing grin No, I haven't worked out max. I can do a few things with primitives (now that I accidentally figured out the boolean thing) and I can use the "mesh edit" to manipulate models other people have made, but that's about it. I still need to figure out how to put a bevel on a couple of the edges on the street corner pieces. The little gaps between the concrete blocks in the sidewalk just are not there. The edges are too perfect and square and you can't see where one ends and the other begins. Fine for distance shots but for closeups, forget it. Wouldn't it be nice if e-on would add a beveled edge box to the primitives list? Kate
Well...someone needs to tell them not to share as much LOL Re Max......U have worked out more than I have!! I opened the box...looked at the 2 reference books....(written by pythagoras for Einstein, read 3 chapters and sealed them in their decorative tomb (the box they came in), where they have been since their birthing ritual...(opening the box) ROTFL. It would be really nice if e-on could supply a lot of things...beveled edging is one of them, a functions editor that doesnt crash when you fiddle with its values too often is another thing :) I guess we just have to wait for the next release of Vue to find out what they will improve, include, or remodel if anything. Beck
Cool work there Kate. It doesn't look exactly what I would call "real", and I hopr you realize what I mean. It kind of looks like a photo of a building from of one of those those miniature railroads that people make. In THAT sense it does look very real, to me. To me, MAX is a complete mystery. I don't have it, and I doubt I'll ever get it, at least not before I learn all the stuff I DO have. But I like what you have done here. It's "homey" so to speak, if that makes any sense. --Mike
Mike, I know what you mean by it doesn't look "real." It's too sharp and clean, plus it's still fairly sterile in that there are no living beings cluttering it up. It's still a WIP. Now that I have things pretty much laid out the way I want them, it's time to go in and work on my textures and then add people to it to bring it to life. I'm glad you think it's "homey." It's based on the small town my grandmother lived in and where I would spend my summer every year until I finally left home. I just made the park/town square a bit larger than it was in real life. :) Kate
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okay, since folks are doing these cool path pictures I think we should run with it! How about this. create an image with a path, street, road, etc in it. to make it a challenge, you have to have trees or buildings or people or something in the picture too, and the path should be believably part of the picture. (that is, no just throwing "paths in the grass" material on the ground randomly like I'm always doing!). ultimate challenge for those who dare: the yellow brick road & the emerald city! ;) Mary