Forum: Vue


Subject: Roads? Watch the first minute

Helgard opened this issue on Apr 12, 2007 ยท 44 posts


forester posted Sat, 14 April 2007 at 4:10 PM

Well, here's the deal.... For both demos, the models have been built and positioned (and they are 'articulated,' although in two completely different technologies). (If you look vey closely at the first 30 seconds again, you will see that the "road" consists of wedge-shaped sections linked together in linear fashion. Listen to the narrator explain that "we don't want to make these too sharp ... or the edges will become too sharp - i.e. "show.) What we are seeing in both those demos is the "movement" of quite a lot of pre-existing models and of the lighting, and with a little deformation thrown in, ... by a knowlegeable/skilled model-builder using relevant sets of tools for movement, scaling, selecting the joints, and so forth. Essentially, we are looking mostly at "real-time rendering of sets" - we're not looking at "modelling reduced to storytelling." That is, the hard part (that of making the objects, texturing them, placing the relevant articulation into them, and so forth) came first, doesn't show in these two demos, and still remains to be done by somebody before any of this can "happen." I'm only pointing this out because we don't want anyone to feel that they're having a mid-life crisis, have been wasting their time in Vue, all this long time, and that they should just throw themselves over into the gaming world and start all over again.