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Vue F.A.Q (Last Updated: 2024 Dec 30 8:14 pm)
Subject: The Road Ahead-WIP
Insert horse and rider here. :) 176 lights? Are you insane?? Now wait, you're Axe555... LOL! No, I've heard of persons using a whole bunch of low-level lights to get the exact light/shadows they want. The most I've used was around 26, and most of those were for illuminating candle flames. (A trick we probably won't need to do with Vue 4's new Glow feature!) For a landscape scene, I'd typically use just the sun, unless I needed to highlight something in particular. Whatever you're doing with this scene, though, just keep doing it, because what really matters is how it looks in the end result, and this is looking great! :)
176 lights!??!?!?!?! for what????! hey, if i use three lights, that's a lot for me :) anyhow, i think this looks very nice! the background roads match again, it looks great. the green clods are a nice touch... perhaps you need some more a bit further down, though. or turn them into rocks? what you really need is a sorta-not-quite-horse alien thing. being that the landscape LOOKS normal, at first glance, but the two moon/planets aren't earthly. so i think i not-quite-horse would look cool. and maybe a not-quite-human person. :)
The first time I heard the word "nugget" is from MacDonald where they have what is call "Chicken McNugget"...in less then six months, I find we have it everywhere locally in the cold storage market here, not MacNuggets but Sotong (Squid) Nuggets, Prawns Nugget, Fish Nuggets and even Beef and lamb nuggets. Mannn!!!...if there is a thing that is call horse nugget, I have to find out what it really is...LOL!
ROFL! Well, you really wouldn't want to try eating horse nuggets. They're also known as horse apples, but you don't want to try eating them by that name either. In fact, it wouldn't even be very cool to step on (IN) them. Have you heard of cow pies? They're not for eating, either, but they have a lot in common with horse nuggets. Have you heard of corn-fed log fish? So...why is it we name these things after food? LOL!
Varian, you just reminded me of an old Texas pass time!! ROFLOL Here we usually call them 'Cow Patties' (Yummy name huh?) and therethat old fun tradition known as Cow Pattie Throwing contests, kinda like throwing a Frisbie a bit further south in Texas! LOL You would ONLY used DRIED Cow Patties for this event!! Haven't seen it done since I was a kid though, but I haven't been out in the Country part of Texas for a while either. Just live in the big city of Dallas where we tend to throw bullets out of a gun instead. Well Cow Patties ARE safer. Don't quitw think that is what mjustmike has in mind for the June challenge though. LOL Verdie : )
Well, those aren't horse nuggets. It's the ground plane showing through the road terrain (if I did put them in, would the scene stink?) Most of the lights are highlighting the grass on the road. Is there a way to export a .mat file to a format suitable for 2D editing? I was just thinking that if I could have adjusted the colors that way, I wouldn't have needed all those lights. Thanks, Rich
Verdie, LOL, I've seen that event on TV! I don't think it'll ever make it as an Olympic sport, though. :) Rich, what you could do is stick a Long Grass over the "nuggets", or perhaps a couple of the Vue stones objects. You can 2D edit a procedural MAT, but it won't be procedural afterwards, and it may not fit the object (model or terrain) in the same way. If you want to try it out sometime, make a new scene with the white back and remove the ground plane. Load a plane object and set it perpendicular to the camera precisely. Use the Square "canvas" and let the plane fill the view. Apply the MAT, then render the image. Now you can edit that in your paint program as you like. Again, it may not "fit" the object in quite the same way afterwards, though, because you'll need to apply the image as the material. Oh, and if you ever do use horse nuggets in a scene, the image itself won't carry an aroma, so don't worry about that. What it does on your desktop however, may be a different story! :D
I am old enough to remember when McDonald's first announced their "Kentucky Nuggets" product and it was a butt of MANY Johnny Carson jokes (he was that guy before Jay Leno)... They finally changed it to "Chicken McNuggets", but in a way I think McDonald's benefitted from all the Nugget Jokes... (Kentucky is where the major event of horse-racing is held- the "Kentucky Derby"...)
heyas; you mean... all you want to do is make the grass material vary-coloured?? geeze man, use a green gradient thing in the colour channel with like a blobby function. you could also try using one big light with a gel over it. that is, stick a plane in front of it to cast a shadow, with a blobby transparency material on it.
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Finally came up with a title! :) I'm going to move on to 'Insert horse and rider here' and do a final render unless there's something very wrong. Also, there are 176 lights in this scene. Is this unusual? Did I overdo it or is this normal for a scene like this? Thanks, Rich