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Subject: Marbles...Final

tjohn opened this issue on Feb 09, 2003 · 12 posts

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tjohn ( ) posted Sun, 09 February 2003 at 6:05 AM · edited Sun, 01 September 2024 at 7:29 AM

After too many false starts and dead ends (I couldn't use the dxf objects I made for the interior of the cat's eyes, no matter what, the render would crash halfway through the second pass), I finally made the cat's eyes with terrain objects and rendered successfully. Thanks to all who commented when this was a wip. For those interested there is a 1024 version of this in my gallery.

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

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cocoalex ( ) posted Sun, 09 February 2003 at 6:24 AM

These balls are great. How did you make them?

TheBryster ( ) posted Sun, 09 February 2003 at 7:00 AM

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clay ( ) posted Sun, 09 February 2003 at 7:31 AM

tjohn, maybe make the inside of the marbles a volumtric mat? and then set a depth of field to it as well, otherwise it's a great render, nice work!

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Ornlu ( ) posted Sun, 09 February 2003 at 7:48 AM

I think you're using some ballbearings in there. Where I come from, that's cheating!

GROINGRINDER ( ) posted Sun, 09 February 2003 at 8:25 AM

Oh boy wrist rocket ammo! LOL But seriously this is quite nice. Takes me back to when I used to hold my marbles in my hand and just sit and stare at them. Oh, wait a minute that was yesterday. Gotta love them marbles ( even the steelies ).

tjohn ( ) posted Sun, 09 February 2003 at 10:14 AM

Yeah, we weren't allowed use "steely balls" or "Dough Rollers" (oversized marbles) in actual gameplay, but most of us had some in our bags because they were so cool looking. clay: This render was at 1024 x 768 and 64 rays Premium with soft lights on (the environment is a tweak on my radiosity room) took over 16 hours to render. Volumetric textures would likely double that. I don't have that much patience. :^) cocoalex: They're just Bryce spheres with standard glass textures and a bump map for the scratches on the surface.

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy