This serviceable vehicle is meant for transporting this n that around the complex.

Hey, that's cool Fran, I like it!

I've got to make some straps to hold the cargo on, as the guy who drives this knows the complex so well that he zoops around like a mad thing.

It's a pity there isn't a way to make straps that are poseable in Bryce... sigh

Here's an aerial shot:

I want that shoppingcart! Seriously, I think it´s coming along great

Shopping cart!-love it.
On a similar note does anyone know why space-age doors always have azig-zag sort of shape to the opening. I don't have a pic example to hand but i'm sure you know what I mean.

Airflamesred:

If you look at sci-fi doors, you'll see that by creating the zig-zag you are increasing the amount and strength of the seal and/or locking mechanism. Simply butting the two doors together means that a standard door is quite weak at the join.

Did anyone tell Thomas Chippendale this !

The sled and the corridor both look great.

Of course the sled isn't UVMapped yet, & I have plans for a big spotlight that's clamped to the front of the cab - handy for the pilot/driver to sear through darkness, and one or two other bits here and there.

Plus the corridor needs more bits, like big massive pipes and cables.

What do you think of this version:

I've only narrowed the cab area.  What do you think?

The second version definitely looks better.  Is that Hexagon?  I have been falling in love with Hexagon and Carrara.

Thanks, it's Wings3D,  I never got on with Hexagon.

HERESY!!!!!

Her- esy?  Listen my esy is coming along just fine.

Only 1900 words to go....

snigger

Oh yeah, and back to the W.I.P
Here's the latest incarnation:

*It's a pity there isn't a way to make straps that are poseable in Bryce...

There is "smartpipe by madmax_br5" available in the free stuff.

Cheers
GG

*Only 1900 words to go....

*Do they all have to be the same or will any do?

They have to include words like "mimesis" "diagetic", "intertextual complexity" "iterative" "lodology"  "moral and pedagogical legitimacy"....

So no, not all the same.  :tt2:

kiwi_gg,

I've already got smartpipe, but can you export the resultant straps?

nice modelling work there
how about a small arm on the side to aid off-loading?, if theres no service droids in the area.

Hmmm... I'll have to think about that, I was going to say that the sled is too small to really need that but then I remembered that he's going to be transporting the big specimen jars... and when full, they'd weigh a good deal... hmmm.

Excellent work on this! It's lookiin great!

Quote - ...kiwi_gg,

I've already got smartpipe, but can you export the resultant straps?...

I had a similar need for flexible/poseable pipes (rather than straps) and Horo pointed me at a tutorial on his website.  It strikes me that if you flattened the metaballs in his tut you could end up with a poseable strap - worth a look?  http://www.horo.ch/raytracing/sys/index_en.html#DocTop

Regards,
Steve.

It might be if a model that worked only in Bryce was what I was going for, but as I want the model to work in other programs as well (heretic heretic!) then I need a method of strap making that is then poseable in other programs.

I can make straps - it's the poseable part that has me stumped.

Ah I see, I misunderstood and didn't realise you wanted to use it outside of Bryce.  I hope you get sorted  :o)

Maybe you should contact the guy that makes the poseable tentacle freebie for Poser to see if they can make a free strap?

herEASY me thinx. I'm a HIM that's why I can't do the same things as Fran

Ah but I'm a heretic you see, I model in Wings3D.

Lol.

I texture in PhotoShop - and Bryce, I use lights I made for Bryce (made in both Bryce and Wings3D - Wings to place the spheres, then Bryce to edit those spheres into lights and to adjust the light settings in the Light Lab.)

Using those lights means I can render in both Bryce6 and Bryce5.5c and if I want to animate materials I may need B5.5c, as you don't get as good a result in B6.

And as animating some mats may well be the way I'm going with this...

(and another recent model):
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2768026

then 5.5 will be necessary.

Whistles nonchalantly as he takes the dust covers off the comfy chair and plugs it in.

*quickly cuts the power cable with a small pair of insulated snippers

Quote - herEASY me thinx. I'm a HIM that's why I can't do the same things as Fran

I cannot understand that.  3D modeling is not based on your sex.  Men can do it as well as women can.

Attached Link: Transport Sled Animation

YAAAAAAAA!  Gotta love that animation.  Do you have one where you blow it up?

Attached Link: Poisoned Earth1

But I have got this as well...

Attached Link: Poisoned Earth Version 2

I like version two the best.  The dying sun is awesome.

I like the animations. I also like version 2 myself.

Really?  Do you two mind telling me why?

I'm torn myself but up to now most people have preferred version 1.

I have reasons for liking no1 but also reasons for liking version 2 as well...

The sun looks so much better in the second one.  The animation appears smoother as well.  And who doesn't like flying monkees?

Flying Monkees? 

Yeah, ditto on the flying monkeys...jk! As UVdan says, the second version seems more pleasing to me. I guess it is the constance of the star's glow.

What's all this about flying monkees?  What flying monkees?  Where?

Constance?  Oh dear, It's not meant to be constant... or rather...

Stops to think for a moment

for a previous animation it wasn't... but for a future one, it could well be just right... I forgot for a moment, I got so intense during this last animation that I forgot it was over... What a nice thought!

Yes, it's okay, brain has once more been engaged.

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Duh!                      Slaps head

Ok so there are no flying monkees in your animation, but they are cool.   The very first time I saw the Wizard of Oz,  I wanted one of those flying monkees to help save me from  the nuns at school.

Attached Link: Sled Take-Off 2

Do you think that's an improvement on the previous version?

Yes, less choppy looks better...put flying monkey on sled to pilot it.

No got flying monkey, but do got weird creature and robot... but neither is UVMapped.

Nice.  How about some ellipsoids with volume flames for the back of the tube parts?  Maybe blue flames?

I was thinking about trying one with the robot hanging on for dear life... so to speak.

Dunno if I'll ever get round to doing anything with the other chap, I just seem to spend so much time just prodding it, shifting an edge loop here, tweaking it there... I'm not really happy with it, but I'm not sure how to improve it either.

hang on I'll find a pic of him....There he is.

Thats Noah Genitalia.  I recognized him immediately.  I wish my humanoids came out looking that good.