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I just finished a render tonight. On my computer it took 10 minutes, had 100,000 faces and 25 lights and 6 mirrors. Each object in the room is a separate object and can be manipulated individually. Each object was built by me in the past few days. Rendered in Blender.
http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/8...ghtroomxb5.png
Comments? Criticisms?
Nice work, ninja. Great job on the lighting.
My only crit is that the walls are looking pretty bare - they could do with maybe a more marble color or a lighter, stone-like texture. I like the mats on the benches, too.
FUCK YEAAA!!!
Awesome, man,
thats really cool, down to the shading. i like the mirrors, and the mirrors within the mirrors.
Metal should look like metal, not plastic. Make better materials.
Wow, good timing. You read my mind! I am just on my way out to the gym.
I like the moody feel to the render. The blue mats, being the only color in an otherwise grayscale environment, give it a very Dream Views feel. Was that on purpose?
I'm adding some chromatic reflection and softer shadows now, will post a new render soon.
Yay! I did some modeling and animation with Autodesk 3DStudio and Maya before... I don't think I'd remember how though xD
Sounds cool.Quote:
Originally Posted by ninja9578
For the opening cutscene from a game that I'm working on. I still have to add atmospheric effects and have some work to do with the water, but I think it looks pretty good.
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/8...6174626xp2.png
Ow, ow...
Is this a blender game?
The model is blocky, but the water looks cool.
No, it's a FPSC game, the cutscenes are just being rendered in blender. I'm going to fix the blockiness, but I'm also adding dust to cover up hide some of it.
You need a better (and bigger) texture, and another bumpmap.
There is something really nice with the color interaction between the sky and the water. I almost want to see a rendering with just the water and the sky.
Oh, that thing.... :?Quote:
Originally Posted by ninja9578
I made a new render from that scene. I forgot to close the hatch on the aircraft, but oh well.
http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/6730/picture1mh1.png
Are these raytraced images?
I've always wondered, how do you do these and how long does it take to make one?
Parts of it are raytraced, parts of it are Z-buffered.
I do my rendering in Blender, I have an "Ask me about 3D modeling" thread in the ask me / tell me forum if you have questions about how to do something. Go ahead and ask, I love babbling on about that stuff.
That scene took about an hour to build, and the frame took about 3 minutes to render, but that's a very simple one with only one light source. More lights = more time.
Can blender do volumetric lighting?
For some reason only with the spotlight. Please post questions about rendering / blender in my thread in ask me / tell me. Questions about the renders themselves here :D
It can be simulated by putting a spotlight way in the distance so the light hits the scene in an almost parallel way, but usually I just put it in the skydome, which I create with Terragen, which does do volumetric lighting.
Did a space scene tonight, a frame of a 30 second animation. Took about 8 minutes, I'm not sure why, there's very little geometry in it.
http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/6119/picture1ki4.png
Here's one that I really like. I did it for practice with fuzzy reflections (the tiles,) refraction (glasses,) subsurface scattering (the fruit,) and translucent / coloured shadows (wine and beer.) Took 8 hours to fully render, let me know what you think. :)
http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/3332/glassesjc9.png
Fruit looks a bit metallic, and the glossiness is also a bit too powerful. I like the refractions and the liquids. Modelling isn't terrible good, I'd make the glasses way thinner, specially the wine-glasses. Texture for the tiles is kinda too blurry. I would've just used a plain gray texture with a light bumpmap causing dent like features.
Also, regarding the fruit, what do you mean by subsurface scattering? It looks like a bumpmap to me.
There's both bump mapping and subsurface scattering on the fruit. I probably should have added subsurface scattering to the red wine and beer too :? The tiles are just normal mapped, no colour textures at all, you can tell by the reflections off of it. :P
EDIT: Did you mean what is subsurface scattering? SSS is used for objects that are semipermeable to light. When light enters something like the rind of an orange it goes into it, bounces around, and then goes back out in a random direction. That's why if you hold an orange up to the light you can see the rind glow, even if the light isn't directly behind it. That's SSS.
Yeah, the fruit one is really cool.
Nice job, man.
Never done much animation or rendering work myself, though.
Finished this one today. I call it "Birthing Fields"
http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/92/0001ya7.png
Comments, criticisms?
Keep up the good work! Excellent, absolutely excellent use of mist!!!
Nice! I like them a lot.
an ocean i'm working on. i didn't start the terrain yet.
http://forum.thegamecreators.com/xt/....php?i=1659579
I'm thinking about using this ocean too however. The setting of the game is at a terraforming plant. Technically speaking, if a terraforming plant was stationed on a planet with an iron-rich ocean, it should turn dark red.
http://forum.thegamecreators.com/xt/....php?i=1659581
So your making a game? And there is no image, lol.
Oops. That server requires a login :P I've attached the ocean images to this one. Yes, I'm making a game, not a Blender game though.
What genre? And how far along are you?
EDIT: Neat. Yeah, you'll have to give us updates on that.
First Person Shooter.
I haven't bought the engine yet, but it's entirely written, most of the models, levels, and AI are finished. I'll post screenshots when I get further into it.
Pretty nice! What engine? I doubt it's anything like Unreal, lol. But there is a Blender-to-crystal space exporter, and crystal space is excellent.
What language is it in?
The renders look great ninja, I especially like your glass/fruit one.
Good look with the game too, I'd also like to see some screenshots. :D
Isn't blender free? I can't remember...can you read free tutorials anywhere on how to get using it? I self taught myself to map using Hammer Editor doing the same.
Blender is as free as you can get, you can download the source code, and even sell Blender if you wanted to, but no one would buy it, because it's free and better than maya
I think some AO would do your renders good, ninja.
I usually only do AO for indoor scenes. :)
Yep, Blender is free and there are a huge number of great tutorials for it.
For indoor GI (you can fake it:link) would be ideal, if you have soft lamps. Outside AO is a must because of the sun's ambience and light spread all over.
I'll take that into consideration. I prefer AO to GI however. Using radiosity also lets me eliminate the need for GI.
Yeah, that's true!
I'm working on a render for a contest, this is very early. It's called "In the Ether"
http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/6649/intheether.png
The contest is for raycasting and the theme is sharp things.
I like the first one in this page. The reflections, shapes, everything is great.
Do you have anymore ?
OR how is the ether one coming along?Quote:
Originally Posted by greenhavoc
Like your art man. Back in my nerdy game programming days I tried my hand at 3d modeling, mainly 3ds Max and Milkshape. I'm not much of a visual artist though, and creating good 3d art can get pretty complicated, so I don't have much to show for it. You however, are doing excellent work. :)