Contemplation by auntietk

Blender3D • Objects • posted on Jan 24, 2007

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This was my first serious attempt at modeling anything in Blender other than using "spin." I learned many things while doing this one! For one thing, this contains NO dupliverts. The file size is enough to choke a horse: 107,015,256. As comparison, the next largest file I had was "Aquarius Descending" with 17,400,392, followed by "Rough Game" at 10,645,348. By the time this was done, just moving one leaf took over a minute! Obviously I needed a new computer or better skills. There was more I wanted to do from an artistic point of view, but the thing had ground to a halt. A friend of mine looked at this and said, "Oh - it needs a little round knob thing on top of the lantern." That would have been nice, but there literally wasn't room! It crashed the program and I had to take it back out. The background is a photo taken from my patio, looking across part of my back yard and into my neighbor's.

Comments (9)

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NekhbetSun

6:47AM | Wed, 24 January 2007

Well done ! ~ Hugs ~

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Gog

8:21AM | Wed, 24 January 2007

Wow, that's big, how many poly's on each leaf? I'm guessing that's where most of the info is....

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auntietk

9:04AM | Wed, 24 January 2007

You're right, Gog - about 600 vertices per leaf. (I made one leaf, and then gave it depth, 'cause I had no idea what I was getting myself into! Copied it a gazillion times . . . poof! File full.) And there aren't even any leaves on the back of the plant! This got me REALLY motivated to learn how to use dupliverts!

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haloedrain

7:24PM | Wed, 24 January 2007

Instead of using shift+d, try alt+d to copy in something like this--every copy will refer to the same mesh and the file size will be much smaller. Plus if you edit one they all change :) Beautiful image, by the way!

fredsmith

12:17AM | Thu, 25 January 2007

I'm totally impressed.

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auntietk

8:44AM | Thu, 25 January 2007

Haloedrain, you are a genius! This is exactly why I post here. Thanks for the tip! And thank you all for your kind comments! :)

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oodmb

6:50PM | Thu, 25 January 2007

oh, cool tip, i didnt know that, nice image, i would personaly tackle this a completely different way, instead of modeling the whole thing, i would recomend adding a plane, then subdividing it once or twice (so you can curve it or bend it if need be), then unwrapping the UVs, make or find a picture of a leaf head on, and turn it into a black and white alpha map, and map the image to the alpha, that way you have a 2d leaf, on only one plane!

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RodS

7:50PM | Sun, 09 May 2010

This is AWESOME, Tara! Thanks for the tour - I'm going to have to play with Blender a bit after seeing some of the things you've done here! It was great meeting you in person! Hope you and Bill have a safe trip, and a wonderful stay!

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