My first halfway decent 3D drawing [Mechanical Pencil]
Moderator: Beowulf
My first halfway decent 3D drawing [Mechanical Pencil]
Real one:
- mine is brown instead of cherry though.
Large:
Made w/ Blender, rendered w/ Yafray.
Took roughly an entire day to do. Also realized a TNT2 is woefully inadequate for the task of modeling anything complex.
ah.....the path to happiness is revision of dreams and not fulfillment... -SWPIGWANG
Sufficient Googling is indistinguishable from knowledge -somebody
Anything worth the cost of a missile, which can be located on the battlefield, will be shot at with missiles. If the US military is involved, then things, which are not worth the cost if a missile will also be shot at with missiles. -Sea Skimmer
George Bush makes freedom sound like a giant robot that breaks down a lot. -Darth Raptor
- lPeregrine
- Jedi Knight
- Posts: 673
- Joined: 2005-01-08 01:10am
I think the black spots are just reflections. I'm more concerned about the poor quality of the mesh for the grip.
ah.....the path to happiness is revision of dreams and not fulfillment... -SWPIGWANG
Sufficient Googling is indistinguishable from knowledge -somebody
Anything worth the cost of a missile, which can be located on the battlefield, will be shot at with missiles. If the US military is involved, then things, which are not worth the cost if a missile will also be shot at with missiles. -Sea Skimmer
George Bush makes freedom sound like a giant robot that breaks down a lot. -Darth Raptor
Model- I still haven't figured out how to put image textures on, and generated textures (as opposed to materials- I get the two confused) don't seem to work well with Yafray (and I hate the results of the builtin raytracer, which is also massively slow.Shinova wrote:Much love man, much love.
Is the rubber grip part a part of the model, or is it a texture?
Anyway, fixed the tip (I smoothed out the whole mesh- forgot to make the tip solid).
ah.....the path to happiness is revision of dreams and not fulfillment... -SWPIGWANG
Sufficient Googling is indistinguishable from knowledge -somebody
Anything worth the cost of a missile, which can be located on the battlefield, will be shot at with missiles. If the US military is involved, then things, which are not worth the cost if a missile will also be shot at with missiles. -Sea Skimmer
George Bush makes freedom sound like a giant robot that breaks down a lot. -Darth Raptor
- Elheru Aran
- Emperor's Hand
- Posts: 13073
- Joined: 2004-03-04 01:15am
- Location: Georgia
It's reflecting off of the blue background and the paper.
ah.....the path to happiness is revision of dreams and not fulfillment... -SWPIGWANG
Sufficient Googling is indistinguishable from knowledge -somebody
Anything worth the cost of a missile, which can be located on the battlefield, will be shot at with missiles. If the US military is involved, then things, which are not worth the cost if a missile will also be shot at with missiles. -Sea Skimmer
George Bush makes freedom sound like a giant robot that breaks down a lot. -Darth Raptor
- lPeregrine
- Jedi Knight
- Posts: 673
- Joined: 2005-01-08 01:10am
Ah, the shadow is much better now.Pu-239 wrote:I think the black spots are just reflections. I'm more concerned about the poor quality of the mesh for the grip.
And the black spots might have been shadows which looked weird for the same reasons the shadow´s edges were grainy.
Don´t know about the mesh, but if you posted a wireframe...
Very nice. And I must compliment you on your selection of writing utensils. I own several PHDs myself, they're just that comfortable and good.
Name changes are for people who wear women's clothes. - Zuul
Wow. It took me a good minute to remember I didn't have testicles. -xBlackFlash
Are you sure this isn't like that time Michael Jackson stopped by your house so he could use the bathroom? - Superman
Wow. It took me a good minute to remember I didn't have testicles. -xBlackFlash
Are you sure this isn't like that time Michael Jackson stopped by your house so he could use the bathroom? - Superman
http://geocities.com/jhnphm/pencil.zipsalm wrote:Ah, the shadow is much better now.Pu-239 wrote:I think the black spots are just reflections. I'm more concerned about the poor quality of the mesh for the grip.
And the black spots might have been shadows which looked weird for the same reasons the shadow´s edges were grainy.
Don´t know about the mesh, but if you posted a wireframe...
ah.....the path to happiness is revision of dreams and not fulfillment... -SWPIGWANG
Sufficient Googling is indistinguishable from knowledge -somebody
Anything worth the cost of a missile, which can be located on the battlefield, will be shot at with missiles. If the US military is involved, then things, which are not worth the cost if a missile will also be shot at with missiles. -Sea Skimmer
George Bush makes freedom sound like a giant robot that breaks down a lot. -Darth Raptor
Is this applicable if I'm using the raytracer?lPeregrine wrote:If you've got reflections enabled, you'll want to use a spherical environment map. That's the most important part in making convincing reflective materials, giving them something to reflect.
ah.....the path to happiness is revision of dreams and not fulfillment... -SWPIGWANG
Sufficient Googling is indistinguishable from knowledge -somebody
Anything worth the cost of a missile, which can be located on the battlefield, will be shot at with missiles. If the US military is involved, then things, which are not worth the cost if a missile will also be shot at with missiles. -Sea Skimmer
George Bush makes freedom sound like a giant robot that breaks down a lot. -Darth Raptor
I meant post a picture of the wireframe not the model.
See i don´t have Blender and importing DXF files is always a bit of a problem because it often gets fucked up.
So i´m not sure if it was imported correctly. If it was imported correctly i think the problem of this mesh are the lacking edgeloops.
The red mesh is your DXF file i imported, the green mesh it what it´s supposed to look like:
See i don´t have Blender and importing DXF files is always a bit of a problem because it often gets fucked up.
So i´m not sure if it was imported correctly. If it was imported correctly i think the problem of this mesh are the lacking edgeloops.
The red mesh is your DXF file i imported, the green mesh it what it´s supposed to look like:
What are edgeloops? Also, the green mesh isn't triangular in the middle.
ah.....the path to happiness is revision of dreams and not fulfillment... -SWPIGWANG
Sufficient Googling is indistinguishable from knowledge -somebody
Anything worth the cost of a missile, which can be located on the battlefield, will be shot at with missiles. If the US military is involved, then things, which are not worth the cost if a missile will also be shot at with missiles. -Sea Skimmer
George Bush makes freedom sound like a giant robot that breaks down a lot. -Darth Raptor
- lPeregrine
- Jedi Knight
- Posts: 673
- Joined: 2005-01-08 01:10am
Yes. If you've got any reflective materials in the scene, you need the environment map. Especially if they're things like the metal tip, where most of the color is taken from reflections. You need to give it something to reflect in the places where scene objects aren't reflected, or it's never going to look right. As for why a spherical map, that makes it reflect like there's something out in the distance surrounding it.Pu-239 wrote:Is this applicable if I'm using the raytracer?lPeregrine wrote:If you've got reflections enabled, you'll want to use a spherical environment map. That's the most important part in making convincing reflective materials, giving them something to reflect.
ah.....the path to happiness is revision of dreams and not fulfillment... -SWPIGWANG
Sufficient Googling is indistinguishable from knowledge -somebody
Anything worth the cost of a missile, which can be located on the battlefield, will be shot at with missiles. If the US military is involved, then things, which are not worth the cost if a missile will also be shot at with missiles. -Sea Skimmer
George Bush makes freedom sound like a giant robot that breaks down a lot. -Darth Raptor
- lPeregrine
- Jedi Knight
- Posts: 673
- Joined: 2005-01-08 01:10am
Loops of edges that go around the object in the green mesh but not in the red mesh.Pu-239 wrote:What are edgeloops?
What do you mean? The Polys on the object that are extruded inwards? That doesn´t matter, i wanted to demonstrate the principle. You need these edgeloops or you will likely get mesh errors when rendering. 5 gazillion vertices per poly = TEH EVAIL.Also, the green mesh isn't triangular in the middle.
Huh? I do have those-
Problem seems to be the use of knife subdividing to draw out the teardrops, where there are rendering errors on the edges- can't seem to think of a better way, other than manually subdividing the end of each groove, which is tedious.
Problem seems to be the use of knife subdividing to draw out the teardrops, where there are rendering errors on the edges- can't seem to think of a better way, other than manually subdividing the end of each groove, which is tedious.
ah.....the path to happiness is revision of dreams and not fulfillment... -SWPIGWANG
Sufficient Googling is indistinguishable from knowledge -somebody
Anything worth the cost of a missile, which can be located on the battlefield, will be shot at with missiles. If the US military is involved, then things, which are not worth the cost if a missile will also be shot at with missiles. -Sea Skimmer
George Bush makes freedom sound like a giant robot that breaks down a lot. -Darth Raptor
Aha, then the DWG mesh didn´t import correctly into Max.
What is this knife subdividing thing? Something that automatically smoothes the mesh? That would explain it. If you´re using automatic smoothing any polygons other that Quads will fuck up the mesh if smoothed. The render errors appear everywhere you have triangular polys.
Or it might be the smoothing groups (the groups you put polygons into to tell them if the shading of the surface should blend smooth or hard into the next polygon).
Ah- ok- will keep this in mind for future projects (last render's errors aren't really noticible). Thanks.salm wrote:Aha, then the DWG mesh didn´t import correctly into Max.
What is this knife subdividing thing? Something that automatically smoothes the mesh? That would explain it. If you´re using automatic smoothing any polygons other that Quads will fuck up the mesh if smoothed. The render errors appear everywhere you have triangular polys.
Or it might be the smoothing groups (the groups you put polygons into to tell them if the shading of the surface should blend smooth or hard into the next polygon).
ah.....the path to happiness is revision of dreams and not fulfillment... -SWPIGWANG
Sufficient Googling is indistinguishable from knowledge -somebody
Anything worth the cost of a missile, which can be located on the battlefield, will be shot at with missiles. If the US military is involved, then things, which are not worth the cost if a missile will also be shot at with missiles. -Sea Skimmer
George Bush makes freedom sound like a giant robot that breaks down a lot. -Darth Raptor
- Spanky The Dolphin
- Mammy Two-Shoes
- Posts: 30776
- Joined: 2002-07-05 05:45pm
- Location: Reykjavík, Iceland (not really)