Oh wow…Excellent looking! Is that the default 4.3 renderer…? I don’t remember it being able to do anything that realistic looking…
bump mapping, im guessing… nice work.
Default Scanline-A, baby!
*Originally posted by reisser *
**Default Scanline-A, baby! **
Then all I got’s to say is:
PRETTY!!! :ahh:
I thought is was a real field at first …sweat job !!
That is excellent!
Looks extremely realistic.
Don’t think I am being picky but the metal texure could use some work. I do very much like the image and you picked a great angle. I don’t think there is a better angle.
Edit, also the carpet looks too clean. Sorry, just trying to help, I’ll shut up if you want me too.
Sunny,
Thanks for the constructive criticism. How can I make the metal a bit more realistic? Right now it has a subtle bump and possibly a blinn shader (shiny metal is better off w.out metal shader, right?) with the Abalone.jpg (in Misc maps) map as a reflection map.
Would the carpet be better with an opactiy bitmap overlaid to expose some type of dirt or skid texture? What would you suggest? Any help would be greatly apprecaited as textures are my area of focus for this year. The models are usually pretty straightforward…
-Brandon
*Originally posted by reisser *
**Sunny,
Thanks for the constructive criticism. How can I make the metal a bit more realistic? Right now it has a subtle bump and possibly a blinn shader (shiny metal is better off w.out metal shader, right?) with the Abalone.jpg (in Misc maps) map as a reflection map.
Would the carpet be better with an opactiy bitmap overlaid to expose some type of dirt or skid texture? What would you suggest? Any help would be greatly apprecaited as textures are my area of focus for this year. The models are usually pretty straightforward…-Brandon **
Geez, I haven’t played with the program for quite a bit, been real busy otherwise, but firstoff I would try rendering it with an anistrophic shader. You could add some more dirtyness to the metal too, I’ll discuss that next. Also, try making a pic with more red and blue hues in it for the reflection map, that would make it fit into the scene a lot more. Play around with the reflection map above all else I would say. Anistrophic is nice but usually you only see the difference if you look at it for a bit. With the carpet, I would try making a new pic, all white with some grey spots here and there, not grey grey but like almost offwhite. Use this as your overlay map, having the white being transparent of course, this will give your carpet the non-uniform look you want. If you need more clarification on that, I could make you a quick idea pic.
:ahh: That is how I looked when I first saw this.
How did you make a realistic carpet texture?
The entire picture is more realistic then alot of the past entries. I think the new deadline is motivating everybody to work harder.
The carpet is a targa image of some type of netting/mesh. The image was on my computer at school and its origins are unknown. Any high-res fabric photo that has the type of pattern found in berber/industrial carpet will do just fine. Always remeber to add bump mapping and set realistic Specular/Golssiness values. Good luck.
Very nice… I actually didn’t have anything to say about the carpeting/metal. Instead, the polyethylene looked the most fake of anything. However, it is by far the best rendering of the field to date that I have seen.
Agreed. The HDPE needs a more reflective/glossy surface. Otherwise, beautiful stuff. I gave up in 3DS after blowing up a teacup 
*Originally posted by evulish *
**Agreed. The HDPE needs a more reflective/glossy surface. Otherwise, beautiful stuff. I gave up in 3DS after blowing up a teacup
TEAPOT YOU INSENSITIVE JERK!!! Just kidding.
Haha…
I would have to agree with you on the criticism of the HDPE. Im still trying to get that to map correctly. It keeps turning out really really white.
*Originally posted by Sunny Thaper *
**TEAPOT YOU INSENSITIVE JERK!!! Just kidding. **
It’s okay sunny…Some people juss dont understand…
all in all the image doesn’t look too bad… but the shadows need work… there aren’t any coming off of the boxes… that’s one of those things that you have to MAJORLY look for, my guess is that you either did a scatter or copied them, and when you did, to reduce render time you just extluded them from the shadows list… but either way… there’s no shadows… sorry but i just noticed that first off… and sunny is on the money with that metal textures thing… but hey… all you can do is just guess and test stuff… good job all in all though 
*Originally posted by Baden3DMAX13 *
**and sunny is on the money with that metal textures thing… **
Now that’s what I like to hear, and you are also right about the shadows, though you could get away with them with the proper “false lighting”. By that I mean just make it look like there are a lot of lights in the arena, as there usually are.
I wonder if there are any easy ways to map the wire mesh on the surface of the ramp. Right now we just hawe a plane with mesh texture+opacity+specular maps, and it looks alright at a close-up, but the problem with it (and i think it is in some way similar to the problem with rendering originally posted in this thread) is that the mesh is almost invisible if viewed from farther away, creating an illusion that the ramp consists just of the bare support structure. Is there any way to solve that? (I tried adding self-illumination, making the mesh wider, bump mapping, but it doesnt seem to help)
I think the problem we are dealing with is a product of the 640x480 resolution. There is only do much data that many pixels is able to convey. It is certainly limited when compared with reality.
Perhaps the only solution is to choose angles that accentuate the mesh and hope for the best in final render. I dont think making it brighter will help. Think of it as a pixelated image. You can’t clear is up without adding more pixels.
Do not interpret this reply as a recommendation render your aniumation at greater than 640x480 pixels. You will just run into more problems compressing it back down for the judges.
Just my opinion… any other ideas?