Forum: Bryce

Subject: Star Wars client wip 1

AgentSmith opened this issue on Jan 26, 2004 ยท 19 posts

AgentSmith posted Mon, 26 January 2004 at 12:11 AM

Oh...humble beginings, lol... This is I guess what you would call a "blocking out" of a scene I am making for a client, whom gets that title since he is paying for this, lol. It's a non-commercial project, which potrays a large "spaceport" which has been built within a large crater on a planet. This is a landing pad for a spaceship, and except for some buldings and pipes is about the only thing that will have to be "modeled", the rest will be landscape-ish. This pad though will be duplicated many times over to form the spaceport. This area of the planet is used mainly for mining and will reflect that slightly "rusted dirtyness". The basic shape of this pad and railing was extremely important to the client and he and I built this up over a few hours time getting the angles and the scale of everything exactly as he wanted, as (I told him) everything else would be built/scaled according to this pad. The whole thing will have small lights/spotlights here and there, that's the reason for the one phantom light you see going down the side. The final scene will have many resulting renders made of it. The project is for a proposed Star Wars role-playing game. AgentSmith

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danamo posted Mon, 26 January 2004 at 1:02 AM

This client's last name wouldn't happen to be Medici would it?(j/k) This is a very interesting looking start and I look forward to watching your design concepts evolve.

draculaz posted Mon, 26 January 2004 at 1:34 AM

yeah, definetely nice :)

Melansian_Mentat posted Mon, 26 January 2004 at 2:24 AM

Cool! A good start and I shall enjoy seeing the final image.

GROINGRINDER posted Mon, 26 January 2004 at 3:17 AM

An excellent looking pad! I am on who sets down in any available meteor crater because I hate paying the high pad use fees everybody charges these days.

AgentSmith posted Mon, 26 January 2004 at 3:21 AM

Forgot to ask... Does anyone know of any specific tuts or tips on creating a crater-like shape as a terrain? Just curious. AgentSmith

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Rochr posted Mon, 26 January 2004 at 4:31 AM

I have a mountain preset in the shape of a crater, if thats what you need. You want it?

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madmax_br5 posted Mon, 26 January 2004 at 5:09 AM

try dragging the gaussian edges button in the opposite direction

AgentSmith posted Mon, 26 January 2004 at 5:24 AM

Oh, no that's cool Rochr, since this is a paying gig, I couldn't take anything, but thanks for da offer man. ;o) Max, I knew someone would say something like "try clicking the "crater" button a couple times...", lol. I've just tried fiddiling with the gaussian edges, that'll help a lot, thanks. AgentSmith

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johnyf posted Mon, 26 January 2004 at 7:41 AM

Don't know if this is any good, it's made with a PS/PSP filter by VM Natural called "Splash". Used in the terrain editor!

johnyf posted Mon, 26 January 2004 at 7:42 AM

Here's another by VM called "Crystal Ball"

Rochr posted Mon, 26 January 2004 at 9:08 AM

I know what you mean, but i think these are just extra presets from Corel. (i can be mistaken though) :)

Heres a dump. Its the crater on the top row.

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Swade posted Mon, 26 January 2004 at 9:21 AM

Attached Link: http://www.petersharpe.com/Tutorial19.htm

Peter Sharpe has a tut on making craters.... click the link for the tut on his page. 8)

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AgentSmith posted Mon, 26 January 2004 at 4:17 PM

Rochr - HEY...I don't have those presets, `course my Bryce has "MetaCreations" stamped on it, lol. Swade - Thanks, I KNEW there was something I had seen in the past online that had to do with craters...! AS

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AgentSmith posted Mon, 26 January 2004 at 5:13 PM

I came up with some shapes I was looking for, using both the peter sharpe tutorial and the gaussian edge button in various ways. AS

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Rochr posted Mon, 26 January 2004 at 5:52 PM

Actually, ive had those presets for as long as i can remember. Cant believe you dont have them, shame... :) Really cool craters BTW.

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AgentSmith posted Mon, 26 January 2004 at 5:56 PM

Hmm, maybe somewhere on my content cd....must go look! AS

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Kiera posted Mon, 26 January 2004 at 9:44 PM

In the past, for making lakes, I just made a mountain I liked then inverted it. :)

Swade posted Tue, 27 January 2004 at 8:15 AM

Those are pretty cool craters AS.... I don't have those presets either.....????

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