Monsoon opened this issue on Aug 05, 2008 · 16 posts
Monsoon posted Tue, 05 August 2008 at 3:04 PM
Monsoon's Rock Concert is now showing at the Commune store. My keywords and stuff have been fixed so stuff is easy to find now.
Rock on!!
M
chippwalters posted Tue, 05 August 2008 at 10:30 PM
Attached Link: Rock Concert Pics
Wow, it looks GREAT!Have to say I hate how 3DCommune wants to resize my browser everytime....
Best of luck on another super package.
Rutra posted Wed, 06 August 2008 at 1:28 AM
Yes, a great package indeed. Another must buy. Thanks!
(I totally agree with Chipp, it's really, really annoying that resize thing. And the site design in general is also not user friendly, IMO. I only visit that site for your packages and then I leave as quickly as I can.)
garyandcatherine posted Wed, 06 August 2008 at 2:17 AM
FInally! Finally some terrific looking rock mats. I am adding this to my cart tonite. THx for this.
Monsoon posted Wed, 06 August 2008 at 5:44 AM
Thanks folks....
Yes, I agree totally with the annoyances of the Commune design. I've seen the new site that's getting prepared to go up and those issues will be no longer.
I hope you get plenty of use out of this one...
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estherau posted Wed, 06 August 2008 at 7:09 AM
as soon as I see you have a product I always run to check it out. Great work! Keep em coming.
Love esther
PS I think your next ecos should be some city streets please
I aim to update it about once a month. Oh, and it's free!
Monsoon posted Wed, 06 August 2008 at 7:40 AM
Attached Link: Rock Concert tips
Esther...I'll consider the possibilities there indeed.In the meantime, here are some tips for using the Rock package......
Peggy_Walters posted Wed, 06 August 2008 at 7:46 AM
Great product - another must have! Thanks for this!
LVS - Where Learning is Fun!
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Thelby posted Fri, 08 August 2008 at 5:12 AM
Sorry I am late to this Rock Concert, hold up at the door you know ;^D
This really looks Fantastic Mark. The layers between each rock really
give the viewer the effect of real rockfaces, Very Nice Package!!!!!
I would rather
be Politically Incorrect,
Then have Politically
Correct-Incorrectness!!!
FrankT posted Fri, 08 August 2008 at 5:47 AM
This is going to save me a metric buttload of time creating rocks in ZBrush!
Very nice set of materials and things - they look really good with the limited testing I've been able to do so far
matrixmode posted Fri, 08 August 2008 at 6:31 PM
hmmmm...I just might have to snag this...:D Lots o' possibilities...
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." Leonardo da Vinci
Xpleet posted Wed, 13 August 2008 at 1:04 PM
hm just a question but am I the only one who would want to create it all on my own?
Monsoon posted Wed, 13 August 2008 at 1:39 PM
Of course not.
This kit and other products like it are not only for artists not so inclined, but for those who savor convenience and (as is my hope) those who learn by taking things apart and seeing how they are put together.
As a content creator, I also collect other creator's content.
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chippwalters posted Wed, 13 August 2008 at 7:06 PM
Quote - for those who learn by taking things apart and seeing how they are put together.
Certainly one of the best ways to learn with Vue is by delving deeper into successful projects and materials to learn how they were made. I can't tell you how much I learned by studying Erka's scenes and tutorials, as well as dissecting Monsoon's SeaVue.
Monsoon posted Sat, 16 August 2008 at 7:45 AM
And vice versa.....looking inside of Chipps TerraPak materials, I learned about the slope node which I couldn't get clicked in my head and fractal mixing and I never knew you could change your mats to vibrant colors when mixing. The obvious isn't always so. InteriorPak solves the mysteries of interior lighting and TerrPak, material mixing.
Many of us make our own stuff for our own use as well. It's in the areas where one has little or no skill that you compensate with a fellow artist's creations. For skies, which I'm no good at, I favor Filippe, Bruno, Deadhead and Trepz. (I have to get out of the habit of just using Vue's default). For water and seasonal collections, I collect GillB and some Martin Frost. For vegetation, I collect Linda's Lush and Wabe's avant gaurde plants and, through Poser, Runtime DNA. For models...anything I can get my hand on because I suck at it. For addons and Vue tools, there's Chipp's VueTools, InteriorPak and AltTerrain and of course, DBurdick's fab SkinVue.
If one has the time and inclination, it's always prudent to study and learn the tools to make your own stuff, but time can be a rare commodity. That's why I think Vue content creators try to fill the missing parts of Vue and extend the parts already there.
So if you want to make your own stuff, I applaud you. If you think it's good, then pack it up and throw it out there on the market. Nothing to lose, play money to gain, and the more the merrier!
Didn't mean to be long winded here but, in short, I think content creation can be an art in itself.
sirrick posted Sat, 16 August 2008 at 8:55 AM
Thanks Monsoon, great as always :o)