kett opened this issue on Jan 12, 2011 · 79 posts
kett posted Wed, 12 January 2011 at 3:01 PM
Does anyone know where I can buy a nice bicycle object ?
Thank you
BionicRooster posted Wed, 12 January 2011 at 3:06 PM Forum Moderator
There's a few in the freebies here. Otherwise, maybe you could get someone to model one for you.
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ockham posted Wed, 12 January 2011 at 3:12 PM
The nicest one I've seen is from Lab108. It's sort of hiding under a Japanese name:
http://lab108.x0.com/lab108/mamachari_v12.zip
It's not fully posable (ie you can't animate it for a ride), but it's extremely accurate and pretty.
BionicRooster posted Wed, 12 January 2011 at 6:34 PM Forum Moderator
and if you can't model, I bet I could make a few moving parts on it for ya. Only for your personal use tho, can't distribute it or anything.
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ockham posted Wed, 12 January 2011 at 7:53 PM
Yup, the Mamachari can be made posable quite easily. I rigged a CR2 that works well, but didn't want to post it here because it required a slight change in the OBJ file.
Here's what it looks like in action:
http://ockhamsbungalow.com/blog22/Ride-bike.swf
basicwiz posted Wed, 12 January 2011 at 8:15 PM
There are a number of very nice ones over at Daz, as well.
kett posted Fri, 14 January 2011 at 7:56 PM
Thank you very much for your responses, and helps.
The mamachari is very nice. I like it.
Ockham, your movie is very nice !
BionicRooster, if you could make a few moving part, it would be great.
Thanks again.
SamTherapy posted Fri, 14 January 2011 at 9:46 PM
Hmmm...
It could be a fun project to make a modern bike.
I may just give it a go.
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kett posted Sun, 16 January 2011 at 11:02 PM
SamTherapy,
If you could make a flat bar road bike or a road bike, it would be great.
I am going to buy it.
Let me know if you have any plan.
Thank you
BionicRooster posted Mon, 17 January 2011 at 12:47 AM Forum Moderator
Quote - Hmmm...
It could be a fun project to make a modern bike.I may just give it a go.
Yeah I was thinking that too Sam, I was looking up some designs today.
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kett posted Wed, 19 January 2011 at 1:04 PM
If you could make a flat bar road bike
and/or a road bike, it would be great.What kind of bicycle are you going to make, BionicRooster ?
kett posted Fri, 21 January 2011 at 12:37 PM
BionicRooster posted Fri, 21 January 2011 at 12:47 PM Forum Moderator
I am still not sure, I was waiting to see what kind people wanted. I may make the flat barred road bike tho.
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kett posted Sat, 22 January 2011 at 11:51 PM
It is very nice.
It is now 65% off. I could buy it for $ 5.25.
The sale ends tomorrow.
BionicRooster posted Tue, 08 February 2011 at 2:00 AM Forum Moderator
Well almost a month later, and I've been asked to make an old, 60's style, Schwinn StingRay bicycle. I'm not sure if anyone else would be interested, but here's what I have so far. I should have it finished in a few days, with UV mapping and making a new and worn texture set. Forgive most the colors, as of now, only the tires and chain are UV mapped and textured.
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Niles posted Wed, 09 February 2011 at 7:38 AM
New and worn textures sounds nice. Looks good.
BionicRooster posted Wed, 09 February 2011 at 10:11 AM Forum Moderator
You can't really tell how it looks without some kind of scenery, so here's a better look (and a littlt more finished)
All that's about left to model is the seat. Then on to the texture making.
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hborre posted Wed, 09 February 2011 at 10:22 AM
That looks very nice. Can't wait to get my hands on it. Thanks.
hobepaintball posted Wed, 09 February 2011 at 10:42 AM
Wow that brings back memories. In 1969 only 2 kids in my california neigborhood had real StingRays. They were the cool kids. I had a schwinn too, but it was a 10 speed, more nerdy, we all had junker bikes we "took jumps with" and such, but the StingRay Kids were the kings of the hill.
BionicRooster posted Wed, 09 February 2011 at 11:48 AM Forum Moderator
I have to spend some time optimizing it, as the chain has more polys than the rest of the bike combined lol
I'm hoping to get it down from almost 55k to maybe in the 20's or lower.
How many colors should I include? I know the powder blue, red, pink, black/grey, but are there any others you guys would like included so you don't hafta mess around too much in the Material room?
And hborre, I believe you were my 1st comment ever on here on my Iron-Man pic (my 1st Gallery upload,) so you're one of the people here that have seen me go from pretty much nothing to where I am now. Man, how a year can fly by... lol
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Klebnor posted Wed, 09 February 2011 at 11:56 AM
Bionic Rooster -
That baby is screaming for a banana seat with a sissy bar!
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BionicRooster posted Wed, 09 February 2011 at 12:00 PM Forum Moderator
Quote - That baby is screaming for a banana seat with a sissy bar!
Just wait, it's gonna be EPIC I tell ya! lol
The sissy bar is gonn have a morph to be the short, ass-crack high version, or the shoulder-blade high type :o)
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Klebnor posted Wed, 09 February 2011 at 12:16 PM
Baseball cards clipped to the wheel supports, impacting the spokes during flight?
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BionicRooster posted Wed, 09 February 2011 at 1:01 PM Forum Moderator
Ya know what, I was actually thinking about adding a baseball card with the wooden clothes-pin holding it in the spokes... I soooooo did that as a kid, and that was in the 80's!
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hborre posted Wed, 09 February 2011 at 1:42 PM
Exactly right, BR. You have definitely come a long way, and I think the forum appreciates your comments and contributions
Klebnor posted Wed, 09 February 2011 at 1:46 PM
Quote - Ya know what, I was actually thinking about adding a baseball card with the wooden clothes-pin holding it in the spokes... I soooooo did that as a kid, and that was in the 80's!
OK ... but did you have a racoon tail hanging from the top of the sissy bar? You have to use a rubber band to make sure it doesn't slide down and hit the back wheel.
Yeeha! It's wheelie time!
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BionicRooster posted Wed, 09 February 2011 at 4:04 PM Forum Moderator
Well I think I'm all done with the modeling and some texturing. The sissybar morph didn't work too well for me, so I will just include 2 versions.
So here's how it looks. Should I do a sub-d on the wheels to make them look more round? Just wondering what you guys think.
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Klebnor posted Wed, 09 February 2011 at 4:18 PM
You da man!
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hborre posted Wed, 09 February 2011 at 7:18 PM
The sub-d on the wheels should improve the look for closeups. I don't think it matters if you use it as a background prop.
Klebnor posted Thu, 10 February 2011 at 7:03 AM
I hope the seat slides down 'cause ... really ... everyone made these into low riders. Ass right over the rear tire - pull back on the handlebars as you hit the pedals, your back settled into the sissy bar and the front wheel was up off the pavement in an instant. Usually could ride half a block without the front wheel touching the ground.
Skid stops worked much better with the center of gravity low, too.
Bringing back lots of memories, BR.
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drifterlee posted Thu, 10 February 2011 at 12:10 PM
The lab site now asks for a password to the server. Odd.
BionicRooster posted Thu, 10 February 2011 at 6:06 PM Forum Moderator
Well, it's nearing completion. Sissy bar morph and seat height morph are working now, so that's a relief. Been working on making textures and making it look nice n pretty for most the day today, and then I am making the "worn" textures as well. It will most likely have 5 or 6 color options, with new and old for each. I am also going to make the baseball card in spokes smart-prop, and reflectors in the spokes and up front, in case people would like those also. Anyways, here's the "hot-rod" look that was mentioned :o)
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Niles posted Thu, 10 February 2011 at 6:40 PM
Very nice work, looks Good.
SamTherapy posted Thu, 10 February 2011 at 7:17 PM
Superb!
I haven't even gotten off the ground with my attempt at a bike. Apart from a few pencil sketches, that is.
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BionicRooster posted Thu, 10 February 2011 at 8:13 PM Forum Moderator
Ok, I'm trying to make a rusted look and here's what I have so far. It's just rust spots with a mask and I used the Blender node to work it in to the original textures. I'm still unsure about it, and might only do 'new' textures if I can't get this to look better. I will keep trying tho, but I don't wanna waste too much time on it.
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BionicRooster posted Fri, 11 February 2011 at 4:46 AM Forum Moderator
Ok, it's 4:46 am, and I've been at this since I woke up, literally! I wanted to get the textures done so i can package it up and have it ready for you guys ASAFP. Well... Thanks to a certain super genious (coughbagginsbillcough), pointing me to a thread with some handy shader tricks, I was able to modify them to this model with minimal effort. So, I am happy to show you the "probably" finished old texture. I may make a few adjustments here and there, but I like how it turned out :o)
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Klebnor posted Fri, 11 February 2011 at 6:27 AM
Un-frickin'-believable.
Nice work ... very nice work indeed!
Get some sleep, BR.
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BionicRooster posted Fri, 11 February 2011 at 2:40 PM Forum Moderator
I am now thinking of doing 3 levels of aging. New, old, and frickin' really old. Somebody give me a color sample scheme for colors you'd like included pre-made. Here's an example I threw together (if you can't tell by the ground and BG, which are there for reflection purposes only,) that shows the full out rusted look, like what would happen if say, it was left in a field and forgotten about for many years...
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hborre posted Fri, 11 February 2011 at 2:55 PM
Freakin' awesome!!!!!
drifterlee posted Fri, 11 February 2011 at 3:23 PM
The model is awesome. Will it be for sale?
BionicRooster posted Fri, 11 February 2011 at 3:29 PM Forum Moderator
Yes it will. After evaluation, I think it'll come out to be 13 or 14 different colors, with new, old, and really old versions of each. I should be able to have them all completed in a week or less, depending on how much Call of Duty:Black Ops I play lol
On a side note, so far it's a parented together prop, and I don't have the skills yet to rig something like this. Is there anyone out there that could rig this? In my attempts, whenever you rotate one thing, something that you don't want to move, moves! So if there's anyone that could rig it I'd gladly give them the set.
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bagginsbill posted Sat, 12 February 2011 at 11:44 AM
This is a great use of procedural texture - it's a much lighter load on Poser than loading 500 MB of various image and masks.
The "old" bike seat is too shiny.
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BionicRooster posted Sat, 12 February 2011 at 12:04 PM Forum Moderator
Yeah I noticed that as well on the close up and have taken it down, and also removed the Reflection node I didn't notice was in there at first. I also took the reflection down on the aged chrome, after all, it don't keep that "polished" look forever.
I'm sure you recognize the leather :o) I am definately open for more suggestions to modify your shader to fade it and possibly add those tiny cracks that appear after weathering.
I'm learning more about procedurals during this project, and what a doozy it is, there's a million nodes to sort thru and figure out what affects what with what effect. Took me a sec to figure out there was 5 nodes to adjust to modify the amount of rust. But it is a learning experiance after all, and it'll only help me in the long run.
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noxiart posted Sat, 12 February 2011 at 12:24 PM
Nice modelling and texturing !
Just sent you a PM about the rigging.
BionicRooster posted Sun, 13 February 2011 at 2:14 PM Forum Moderator
Ok, I've been tinkering with the nodes trying to get the right looks for each, and I am getting close (I think). I put the 3 side-by-side for easier comparison. Don't ask me why I didn't think of it b4... lol
A big thanks goes out to noxiart for rigging it for me, as it makes applying the MATs easier, 1 object to change instead of selecting each part then applying MAT.
Anyways, here's an update. I'm trying to get the shaders right for each on this color, then making all the other color options is just a matter of changing the color in 1 node for each.
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obm890 posted Sun, 13 February 2011 at 2:24 PM
Looks really excellent. My only criticism is the tire color - way too black on the older ones, even the new one is a bit too black. Do a google image search for "old bicycle" and see how much rubber fades, on a well-used bike the tires are a dark grey, on an old one a mid grey-brown.
bagginsbill posted Sun, 13 February 2011 at 2:42 PM
BR asked me for rubber but I haven't had time to find mine and post it. If I recall, though it's really simple. Use something between dark gray and black on the diffuse, with diffuse value really low. Use a Blinn set up broadly for the specular. That would be eccentricity is somewhere between .1 and .4, and reflectivity is low, like .1. Combine these as per usual in a GC shader.
If you don't use a GC shader, you can get it to look right, BUT ONLY WITH ONE LIGHTING REGIME. Getting specularity to look right with many different light setups requires that you must do the linear workflow.
Also, BR, the painted part looks wrong. I think you want to use my car paint material on that.
http://sites.google.com/site/bagginsbill/free-stuff/car-paint
However, the car paint doesn't come in rusty versions. However, perhaps you've learned enough how to put nodes into its parameter nodes to modulate color and shine.
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bagginsbill posted Sun, 13 February 2011 at 2:45 PM
Note: How to make a "peeling" procedural is in my plans to write someday. I have prepared a number of peeling paint examples for publication (in my book, whenever THAT is), but the same principle applies to leather. When done correctly, the edges of the peel actually stick up, or at least appear to.
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BionicRooster posted Sun, 13 February 2011 at 4:18 PM Forum Moderator
Thank you all for the input. I am trying to go "all out" on this and not half-ass anything, so I will continue to mess around and see what I can do to improve on everything mentioned. I had already thought about the tire colors, but thus far, have only made them slightly bald and really bald.
As for the car material shader, I will see what I can do about working that in and making it look nice n pretty :o)
Thanks again for all the support.
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BionicRooster posted Sun, 13 February 2011 at 7:41 PM Forum Moderator
Ok, I've been working on this since I last posted, working in GC shaders on everything that didn't already have a pre-built BB shader. So, here is what I've got using his car material shader (any setting tips would be appreciated, I've never used it before), and a GC on everything else, modified to whatever part it's on.
And do I have to do this to the rust shaders as well? Cuz that would make one monster of a shader to assemble, especially for a noob like myself.
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BionicRooster posted Sun, 13 February 2011 at 11:05 PM Forum Moderator
So, is the GC in your shaders automatic? Does it turn itself on and off depending on if it's in Poser 7 and under or 8 up? I'm still figuring stuff out and don't know too much yet. I'm thinking this would be the next step in my 3D evolution, learning the material room and building my own shaders, understanding what does what. I guess I need to hit the tutorials once again. Oh joy!
And BB, I for one will definitely be buying that book, when it comes out :o)
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BionicRooster posted Tue, 15 February 2011 at 12:05 AM Forum Moderator
Whew, that's a relief. It actually loads and renders for ya :o)
Looks funny in the preview window don't it lol
But it looks like it renders just fine.
On a side-note, I think I'm going to make a baseballcard smart prop for the rear spokes and reflectors before I go to bed tonight. They'd be a fun little addition to such an iconic piece of our history. I mean c'mon, I'm only 33 and I even remember seeing bikes just like this as a child, and doing the card in spokes too. These bikes lived to be well past their prime. Hell, didn't the Bozo Show give one of these away when a kid won the Grand Prize game? Actually now that I look at it (I went looking to see if I was actually right lol) It looks like the 10 speed version of this bike. I do know, however, they always gave away Schwinn's tho.
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BionicRooster posted Tue, 15 February 2011 at 1:19 PM Forum Moderator
I got to thinking just now, this model is pushing 59k in poly count(half of which is in the chain). After my 1st test renders I saw some faceting that I couldn't live with. But that's for pretty, close-ups. Should I include a lower poly version for when it's just in the BG?
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noxiart posted Tue, 15 February 2011 at 8:25 PM
Hmm, yes, I think a lower poly version wouldn't hurt.
Just for myself, I made new gears, chainguard and chain, and I brought it down to 37k polys overall.
(I re-added a few polys to the saddle for the chrome stripes)
Here are some pics:
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BionicRooster posted Tue, 15 February 2011 at 8:34 PM Forum Moderator
yeah for distance shots, a chain like yours is plenty sufficient. Want me to throw together a low-po chain, and the rest, unsmoothed parts to the bike, and send it over for rigging? :o) lol
I kinda forgot in asking about including it also involves you lol
Whatcha think?
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noxiart posted Tue, 15 February 2011 at 8:45 PM
Nah, it's your model. No need to ask anything. :-)
As for the rigging, there's no need to re-rig it.
Just make sure the groups (bodyparts) stay named indentical, i.e the "new" frame with the lo-res chain is also called "Frame" just like the original.
Then you can just edit the references in the orginal cr2 to point to the modified object.
Or load the new object file into Poser, enter the SetUp room and click on the original cr2.
Then safe the new figure to the library.
Either way, as long as you just change the polycount and not the dimensions, you can simply re-use the rigging I made.
bagginsbill posted Wed, 16 February 2011 at 8:57 AM
I had some time to work on it and will be posting little tips for all to see.
First I want to say, BR - congrats on becoming so expert at 3D so fast. The model is beautiful, and you did a great job with the initial materials.
I will be talking about a number of different things as I have time, but for the moment, I just want to show you what I've done. Note that I'm only addressing the "new" version at the moment.
On the right is the model as BR sent it to me. On the left I have modified the materials. I'm not done yet.
This is rendered in Poser Pro 2010 with render GC and IDL, surrounded by my EnvSphere.
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BionicRooster posted Wed, 16 February 2011 at 9:20 AM Forum Moderator
I actually saw those lind when looking for reference pics, thinking to myself, "Man, I really don't want my 1st bike model to have a chain like that and all those gears," so I modeled the version without a shifter. Now in hind-sight, it really wouldn't have been too much more work to make, and I still may, since I'd just have to modify the chain, add a few gears and shifter, and the hand brakes. We'll see lol
I notice the big difference on the seat and tires for sure.
Quote - First I want to say, BR - congrats on becoming so expert at 3D so fast. The model is beautiful, and you did a great job with the initial materials.
Thanks BB, modeling is definitely the easy part on this project, and the shaders, well you know where I got 'em, all I did was figure out what to change to add or remove rust, and change the color. Expert? You flatter me sir :o)
I do appreciate your help on this more than you know. In the [almost] year that I've been doing this stuff, you're one of the most mentioned names. So after all this time and seeing your work and what it can do, well, you kinda became my "Digital Hero" lol
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BionicRooster posted Wed, 16 February 2011 at 9:33 AM Forum Moderator
And in lookin at more bikes of this style, I'll be making a few different seat styles and colors, like a white leather, a flowered texture for the pink and red bikes, etc. Also, the Decals are not final, I'll be making the ones on the chaingaurd and top bar bigger, these were just my 1st, "Test" masks to see size and placement of decal. I like how the front, round one came out, so that will prolly stay as-is tho.
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BionicRooster posted Wed, 16 February 2011 at 12:31 PM Forum Moderator
Ok, I'm sitting here looking at your render, thinking to myself, "Damn I need to get a new Poser!" It just looks so much better than P7. Hopefully if I make enough from my models, and PP 2010 goes on sale again, then maybe I can pick it up. Oh my wishful thinking sometimes lol
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hborre posted Wed, 16 February 2011 at 6:09 PM
Let me tell you, it does look beautiful in PP2010.
BionicRooster posted Mon, 21 February 2011 at 4:30 PM Forum Moderator
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Here's a color I was messing around with today. I got to thinking about how there were some Metal Flake style seat, and figured it would look good on a gold bike. Just playing around, and it may end up in the final set.
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hborre posted Mon, 21 February 2011 at 6:15 PM
That is an awesome color. I almost forgot about the metal flake style. That would be an added bonus.
BionicRooster posted Thu, 24 February 2011 at 2:14 PM Forum Moderator
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Here's a look at the half metal flake colors I've come up with. Please click on the full size image link to see better.
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BionicRooster posted Thu, 24 February 2011 at 2:16 PM Forum Moderator
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And here's ther other half, and with the gold one shown earlier, that makes 15.
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BionicRooster posted Sat, 26 February 2011 at 9:41 AM Forum Moderator
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Ok, the quality of the image of the bike in the field on page 2 was getting to me, so I made proper grass, changed a few things, and came up with this. It's "almost" as I had it pictured in my head. may work on it a little more, but still in P7, so can't really do a whole lot more to it(I don't think).
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BionicRooster posted Mon, 28 February 2011 at 1:01 AM Forum Moderator
Ladies and gents, I spent all day, and I mean all friggin day today, making all the MAT's.
15 colors
X New, Old, Really Old, and Metal Flake versions of each
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Total = 60 MATs.
Tell me I didn't wanna pull out a chunk of hair or 2... hehehe
And, as an added bonus, there's a Python script going in the package to change the color easily. It brings up a color selector window, you pick a color, hit OK, and it changes all the nodes in all 4 material zones(5 for the Metal Flake MATs) to that color.
All that's about left is making the ReadMe.txt and some instructions.
I hope there's some people just half as excited as I am about this getting released :o)
I truly believe this is my best model yet, and it's just a friggin' bike, what the hell!!! lol
And at this point, is there any way to possibly sweet talk some of my "beta testers" to make me some nice promo pics? I know it's a lot to ask, but I've been actually working my booty off on this, what started out to be small, project. I still don't know what possessed me to do the rusted MATs, but I'm kinda glad I did, but kicking myself at the same time for adding just that much more to my workload.
I also only have Poser 7, and a few made in PP2010 would be awfully nice...hehehe
Thanks again for all the support in this. I love the community here :o)
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SteveJax posted Mon, 28 February 2011 at 1:36 AM
It looks fantastic BR!
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BionicRooster posted Tue, 01 March 2011 at 3:33 PM Forum Moderator
plus I added a bump to it to give it some character :o)
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BionicRooster posted Wed, 02 March 2011 at 3:31 PM Forum Moderator
I made more MATs for the package.
30 additional MATs derived from 19 custom seats. So that's 90 MATs in all!
Here's an image of the styles and a sneak peak at a few of the custom colors.
If you guys are tired of me posting updates just say so and i'll shut up about it... lol
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Niles posted Wed, 02 March 2011 at 3:56 PM
Quote - Ok, I couldn't leave well enough alone, so...
I made more MATs for the package.
30 additional MATs derived from 19 custom seats. So that's 90 MATs in all!
Here's an image of the styles and a sneak peak at a few of the custom colors.
If you guys are tired of me posting updates just say so and i'll shut up about it... lol
Keep us posted whenver there is something new, Thanks.
BionicRooster posted Thu, 03 March 2011 at 8:50 PM Forum Moderator
Attached Link: Bicycle Grand Release!
Promos aren't final, I have people way more talented at renders than I contributing some promo images to me, and I deeply appreciate it!
Unfortunately it will probably be over a week before it makes it into the MP here, but at least you guys have a chance at getting t sooner than later. Especially since my slow ass took so damn long lol
Poser 10
Octane Render
Wings 3D
BionicRooster posted Fri, 11 March 2011 at 10:10 AM Forum Moderator
Attached Link: 1960's Bicycle
Ok, I just noticed that link didn't work... The 'www' wasn't there for some reason. So let's try this again... lol
Poser 10
Octane Render
Wings 3D