Forum: Bryce

Subject: CD Case w/CD

Ornlu opened this issue on Jun 20, 2002 ยท 10 posts

Ornlu posted Thu, 20 June 2002 at 9:44 AM

Just an attempt at modeling and texturing a CD case completely in BRYCE. I realize it still needs work, The object in back is the instruction booklet, if it was in there was too much shadow. The plastic, well it needs to look more like plastic, right now it looks too heavy and brown. The acctual CD is made from two objects a booleaned cylander flattened out, with a glass material and a very flat duplicate of that ontop with the cd's texture applied. For some reason the white is all the way through.. ;/ I will have to figure this out. Still new to bryce so any suggestions are welcome. =)

DEDfish posted Thu, 20 June 2002 at 12:23 PM

No changes needed,except a few mtn. dew cans,a pencil/pen holder,& a dirty monitor in the bckgrnd hehe...peace

luke27 posted Thu, 20 June 2002 at 1:26 PM

Looks really nice. You could apply the image to the CD as a transparency mapped image instead of creating a second copy. I bet then your materials would work better. Nice job with the modelling.

Ornlu posted Thu, 20 June 2002 at 6:43 PM

Yeah for some reason bryce gives me grief about the BMP textures... That and the multi repped plastic ridges, my god. It takes 15 minutes to render... insane for what it is.. They need to redesign Bryce more for the PC, in the pc release. Thanks for the comments. I have a question though. Why can't I save this as an object. Or export it. it's all grouped and all that great stuff. why won't it work?

Vile posted Thu, 20 June 2002 at 8:16 PM

Great work how did you do the sides? What material did you use for the cover? Did you see mine? http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?Form.ShowMessage=723761ou

Ornlu posted Thu, 20 June 2002 at 9:31 PM

I used light glass for the cover and the sides were made by multi replicating many many cyls and grouping them inside the edge. Yes, yours are much better than mine, the black part on this still needs work. how did you do that center section?

Ornlu posted Thu, 20 June 2002 at 11:49 PM

ok I redid a bunch of stuff. added a back to the instruction book (can't be seen) fixed the CD, made the top image semi transparent, and fixed the ambience on it, not bright white like before. Also fixed some scaling, the pegs on the case. fully poseable etc.

Ornlu posted Fri, 21 June 2002 at 9:05 AM

Why it is rofl.. I know why.. on the top sheet I flipped it 180 on the x... since it's mapped by object top, it's backwards on the other side... :smacks forehead: doh! Thanks for pointing that out. lol...

luke27 posted Fri, 21 June 2002 at 2:17 PM

Ornlu - looks really nice. There is some kind of keyboard thingy to save it as a user object. I can't remember off the top of my head - perhaps Vile remembers? Anyhoo, there is a way but it is not immediately obvious from the manual. You can save a bunch of user object presets, then if you want to share them with someone else there is a way to export that library... Keep on Brycin'!

Erlik posted Fri, 21 June 2002 at 2:59 PM

Select the object you want to add to the library, click on the triangle next to Create. When the library opens, click Add. Write in the name and the description and BYU. When you want to create an .obp, just select the object in the library and click Export. Important note: when importing, take care about what's selected and whether the Boolean operations are all okay. Otherwise you'll get a lot of errors and something messy later.

-- erlik