3D modelling - HELP!

Atrocities · #1 January 13th, 2005, 06:29 PM

Yes, Todd Z has posted links to download more parts on the Doga English forum. Just scroll through the message until you find it.

ToxicSlurpee · #2 January 13th, 2005, 10:21 PM

Oh my. More parts to play with?

*sigh* I'll never sleep again!

Atrocities · #3 January 14th, 2005, 02:33 AM

And they are good parts too.

I am normally on MSN or Trillan by 1pm PST each day.

If you see me here posting, send me a PM.

kerensky · #4 January 17th, 2005, 11:04 PM

Toxic, how did you create the glowing parts on your models? Did you set the emmisions high or did you use the glow material setting?

kerensky · #5 January 18th, 2005, 06:53 PM

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When I use DOGA L3 I have the images rendered with a black back ground at 1000 x 1000. I then use Windows Tools to resize them to 128 x 128 and 36 x 36 and the use PAINT to ensure that the black back ground is indeed black by chaging it to a white back ground the back to black. I save my work and I am done.

Is Windows Tools a program that comes default with windows or do you have to buy it seperatly? Also, waht are the advantages/disadvantages of doing it this way instead of just rendering them in 128 x 128 and 32 x 32?

TurinTurambar · #6 January 19th, 2005, 04:24 AM

By "Windows Tools" I think he means a standard Windows program like Paint or Photo Editor.

Rendering larger and then shrinking, in effect, gives you a higher resolution.

Turin

Ed Kolis · #7 January 19th, 2005, 11:26 AM

But it also causes a moire effect on renders which require heavy antialiasing (see my Annihilatorbeam which I recently submitted to the imagemod - the white and black rings on the mini don't really look like rings because I shrunk the image from the original portrait image

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Fyron · #8 January 19th, 2005, 08:30 PM

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TurinTurambar said:
By "Windows Tools" I think he means a standard Windows program like Paint or Photo Editor.

Rendering larger and then shrinking, in effect, gives you a higher resolution.

Turin

I believe he was refering to one of the XP Power Toys programs that can resize images decently well. Far better than MS Paint at any rate. Still better to use an actual graphics program if you have one though.

ToxicSlurpee · #9 January 20th, 2005, 01:32 AM

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kerensky said:
Toxic, how did you create the glowing parts on your models? Did you set the emmisions high or did you use the glow material setting?

I used the Emmition setting. It wasn't high or low, I used the custom type and set it to about 400% for the ships. I forget what I set the Rablak himself to, but it was probably similar.

TerranC · #10 January 20th, 2005, 02:28 AM

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I used the Emmition setting. It wasn't high or low, I used the custom type and set it to about 400% for the ships. I forget what I set the Rablak himself to, but it was probably similar.

Emition Low Preset = Emition tab at 0%
Emition High Preset = Emition tab at 400%