Casual Performance by tallpindo
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I downloaded this model from the Max-Realms member site. It sat for a while. Then I brought it into Carrara 4 Pro and textured and rendered it. Well, invert the color of all the transparencies on all the airplane objects. Then move the transparency map of the wings only to the alpha channel in the no-fly model only for wheel cutouts. Make a new fuselage shader with only the black cockpit base from the color channel and put into the alpha channel. Use Anodize aluminum from Basic Metals for the prop spinner. Use my fine cast aluminum for all the objects that make up the radial engine except the crankcase. Add a Poser6 James posed in a Hurricane cockpit holding the stick to the model scaled to fit. Add the leather helmet and goggles from an earlier 1916 Harley rider. Now the piece-d'resistance... uncheck the "cast shadows" on the two cockpit shaders and the propellor in the flying modle. Uncheck the receive shadows in the propellor of the flying model. He-he!! finally I have solved my dilemma with headlights and interior rooms. I saw when I made my house with just a floor plan and the window glass that when I rendered it the glass cast shadows!! Eeek! Earlier funny business with propellors and receive shadows now had a partner. Naturally there is also the matter of flatmapped items having black reverses but that seems to not matter once the cast shadows is unchecked. So thanks to the 3ds community for this opportunity to show import/export at it's best. I moved the camera and the object to about 37 before using realistic sky with a sunlight. The sun rotated out of the straight down by editting the realistic sky and rotated to South-Southeast and about 45 below the zenith.
Comments (9)
Richardphotos
you always take downloaded models to a new height of quality and realism
evielouise
woderful job with this one as only you can do hugs ))
pakled
...and that's how you do it. Great texturing..keep up the good work.
RodolfoCiminelli
Wonderful realization of beautiful intense colors Dale......!!!!
creanum
Very good creation....
jocko500
well done job on this one too. going flying now and maybe wingwalking lol
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I'd like to see you do a pylon race scene. I'm sure you'd do a bang up job with your library!
tallpindo
Boy that is a tough one. These are early airliners and thus crosscountry racers where they excelled. The only real pylon racers I have are a Wright "Baby Grand" and Benny Howard's "Ike." Can I give you my guts phrase? "Dense voids" Think of a casting that shifted and where steel vapor has created an average of sublimated vacuum melt and case hardened eddy current vortex. Imagine a room full of the top generals who have just retired and the most recent washhouts from pilot school, navigator sachool and the service academies as well as General and Staff school. There is a terrorist in that room.
tallpindo
In the 50's the pylon racers as models were made by the Lindbergh Line in a very small scale gray plastic. They had no locating pins so it took not just care but careful trimming to get nice seams. Consequently, locally, they did not sell well in spite of a terrifically low price. This is how I came to own a few of them in a clearance sale. Really, Chuck would almost have given them to me. I had taken the Auburn 851 Speedster off his hands after the Cord moved quickly. I should mention in an analog sense that I never took apart my real life SS-396 engine because it had no dowels and was not really designed to be taken apart in the field and reassembled. The seams came together like the halves of an oystershell and tended to form a cusp. The resulting sharp edge was easily trimmed with an Xacto knife if you could keep it from diging in and making a wavy edge. I'm thinking about it. The Wright/Curtiss era and the later Italian and English seaplane era is V-12's. I know you are thinking of the GeeBee, the Howard and the one drawn on the hangar floor. These all had radials, air-cooled, in WW-II that is the Pacific, U.S. bombers and the Thunderbolt and FW-190. Who can whip who won't lead to stealth. Who can find nuclear submarines will. The Battle of Britain was fought mostly with V-12's water cooled. Are you a motorcycle guy cause VW and Porsche even now are all watercooled. Even some bikes are watercooled.