warehouse

Just an indie scene, Look OK or not?

-also, the "mouse look" script from 1.6 is bugging about degrees to radians. What should I do, delete deg2rad and replace it with what??

Thanx.

m

 

I can't see anything.

 

sorry...

 

Looks pretty good to me! Certainly better than what I could produce...

 

Thanks!

m

PS. I grew-up in Canberra ( ... did Secondary school there), left in 1980. How do you find it these days?

 

The shadowing breaks down around the windows. There
needs to be recesses in the brickwork in order to
take the window frames and these would produce shadows highlighting the depth of the recess.
Apart from that, looks good.

cheers.

 

as far as the shapes and texture, it looks good! But you can make it a lot better by thinking more about color and trying to make everything match up nicely.

A few quick tips: The difference in between the lights and darks (from the windows) is much too little. The windows should be super bright. the sturctureal beams look ugly when they are right next to something that is much brighter then them. Apon further inspection, the lights and darks from the windows don't really match up to what is in the scene.

Bonus points for god rays from the windows

Shoop de woop:

 

With floating particles that are moved by turbulence when an object passes through.

Also, not only should the contrast between light and dark be higher, as Yoggy pointed out, but eyes should adjust between looking at a bright or dark area.

 

Thanks, they're all useful observations. I might have to use several shadow projectors. Maybe the windows could be a transparent texture.. I like the stronger light.

Yes, the textures need work.

Cheers!

m

 

really nice
Boxy

 

I can't seem to limit either the projector or the spot so that it only projects the 16 squares for each window frame. If I get the range right it still tiles laterally.

Any ideas? i guess in Pro you would cast shadows....

Maybe a particle emitter?

m

 

Yeah, that'll be when you use gold tipped contact lenses for monitors.

m

 

Needs some refinement but I modeled it instead;

m

 

Yeah, that looks pretty good. I'd make the windows just be a giant white out though, cause then you can have the god rays glow all the way up to them and have no seam. And you don't really need the pro glow effect for this (though it would help), You can just use additive planes.

 

You mean seam as in the difference between the "diffuse" light, so to speak and the intensity of the window reflection off the wall?

In your PS modification above, you're saying it should be one intense beam with no interruption?

m

 

What I meant is in the attached pic.

I think your god rays are way too intense and have too much contrast in the texture.

 

I see your point ( thanks for the pic). Don't always think photographically, 'cos of years of "study" in the so called plastic arts.

Can't we have a bit of dust in the air and some "artistic license"?

m

 

Sure, just not "too much" though. The picture in the last post is nice, btw.

 

Yeah, artistic license is great but I at least think the god rays in the last images you sent were too intense. I like the photo, that shows how hdr should look for an indoor environment with windows like you have.

You might try placing point lights under the places where the light beams hit. (Or just lightmap it)

 

Thanks...

- Ok, time for model n# 4; the UV is too rough for light mapping.

m :roll:

 

Hey
What do you mean by "to rough"

Cheers

 

holmeren

Mr. Dodgy took too many shortcuts with the UV's. So when you bake the lights the texture map doesn't have any coherent relation to where the light is.

m

 

but why dont you use two different UV channels one for the texture one for the lightmap?
I dont understand?

 

Yeah, that's logical.

-Probably because model #4 is needed anyway and I may as well not bother remapping the former. I want to execute both in one go kind of thing even if that's illogical. You know?

m