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Jaw is dropped...
Jaw is dropped...
(Bends down and picks up jaw, hands back to Garstor) Sorry about that. :)
there is a lot of damned awesome stuff happening here!
This one is beautiful. Reminds me of my understanding of impressionism paintings.
Here is some progress on bushes and trees. Homemade leaves and flowers.
So now it's time to plan the layout of the garden.
This one is beautiful. Reminds me of my understanding of impressionism paintings.
Here is some progress on bushes and trees. Homemade leaves and flowers.
So now it's time to plan the layout of the garden.
Thanks.
My wife would kill to grow flowers like the ones you've got.
Thanks! I'll need that later...
Varsel, those vertex plants are wonderful. You have an enviable talent there. Makes my cruddy efforts look shameful!
Yes indeed!
Still, maybe the next contest -- too busy with work right now. :-(
hah, what isn't there 25 hours in a day over there? our daylight saving isfinished and so we get an extra 2 hours a day :)
booksbydavid wrot
thanks for the blow by blow, it's really interesting watching this scene develop, the water epecially really does look like water :) I need to investigate Veloute shaders, now I have the tile shaders, i sthat what you are using?
something simple from me, made one petal then used the replicator in a pattern.
if nothing else the render makes a good texture, especially when saved as PNG file with alpha channel in tact.
the petal colouring is two colours mixed with the marble parameter in the shader room
the small holes are in the in the alpha channel of the petal texture using cellular
Hi everybody.
I made the waterfall with a particle emitter (metaball), the rocks with metaball primitive and the grass with dynamic hair. I used the Carrara's "sun light" lens flare effect and rendered with "sky light" global illumination. No postwork.
Hope you like it.
thanks for the blow by blow, it's really interesting watching this scene develop, the water epecially really does look like water :) I need to investigate Veloute shaders, now I have the tile shaders, i sthat what you are using?
Veloute has tile shaders in it. Probably the same one you've got
http://www.inagoni.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.7
That's pretty cool! I wish you'd stop serving up so much food for thought. I'm stuffed. :)
I never can get the particle emitter to do what I want it to. I've also had only limited success with metaballs. I really need to get out more.
tell me about it David
that fountain was driving me around the twist
going to move on and scrap the water feature (or just have a nice pond!)
I'd say we ought to have the next challenge be about particles and such, but I wouldn't be able to make anything but a mess. :)
Oh, man. I need to get in on this.
I had an attempt at creating a swamp scene. I created the trees but I didn't create the grasses and whatnot. Then I got frustrated and bought DinoRaul's Cypress trees.
If it's going to be a still shot, use the metaball modeler to create the water pouring down. If it's animated, then you're on your own! ;-)
ha ha yes I agree :)
Sebastianus, I just watched one of your videos with lots of laser effects etc with the partcile emitter - great effects you are getting.
The grass in your waterfall image looks exactly like the newly sprouted grass we get here after rain
welcome to the challenge :)
ahh the grasses and the whatnot are the easy bits
did you know the plant editor has an option for a horizontal trunk?
me neither till a few days ago
I looked at those Cypress trees - they look amazing _ I bet he made them in Carrara :)
I'd say we ought to have the next challenge be about particles and such, but I wouldn't be able to make anything but a mess. :)
well, I;m crappy at them too so maybe it's a good idea, like taking medicine :)
mind you the winner of this one gets to choose the topic
thanks for the heads up on the shaders too.
I buy things and don't use them,- cause I fall into habits,
now where was that architecture modelling plugin I bought for carrara and never used yet :)
the best plugins I have are Fenric's - they make the workflow amazingly easier!
Dimension theory was the Carrara particle king but he has moved on to Studio.
I AM considering metaballs actually, did some animated drool once using them
they can at least be keyframed to go where you wish.
Here is how I create the scene.
I created a rock wall with metaballs and I placed a particle emitter on it with this property:
Metaball Influence: 10
Max Numb particles 80000
Emission cube X 1,00 Y 0,20 Z 0,00 m
nb particles/sec 10.000 +- 50
size 0,01 m
dispersion angle 0
objects friction on collisions 5%
bounce factor 8%
Sebastianus, I just watched one of your videos with lots of laser effects etc with the partcile emitter - great effects you are getting.
The grass in your waterfall image looks exactly like the newly sprouted grass we get here after rain
welcome to the challenge :)
Many thanks, and thanks for watching my video. This is my first challenge, and here i've seen lots of good work, I'm glad that you liked my waterfall.
yes it's sad to lose him :(
I wonder if you can animate a distribution map with the surface replicator?
that would be one possible way of animating water particle?
there was a great tut?example? in the old forum or somewhere by bgrosse.... ?- he had a groovy little waterfall thing happening with metaballs
partcles and physics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTxsGnqkB_0
http://www.makeknownthepath.com/pub/waterfalltutorial.pdf whatever this link is has vanished
see
http://forumarchive.daz3d.com/viewtopic.php?p=1135664
also mcguiver did some good stuff I think
he still pops in from time to time, I think I pmed him to join the challenge but he must not have received it as no reply
thanks Sebastianus for sharing that. Obliged!
will come in handy in the future I bet ;)
I see dimension3d has a grass modelling tut on youtube
starts at the ground up ;) and very methodical
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_kucTAys4Y
and
part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQmXxPqXWR8
are splats using Xfrog billboards permitted?
(they are texture maps, I then use them in the replicator)
they work well once you create a separate alpha map for them in Gimp
(Carrara does not see their alpha)
or do I need to photograph or paint my own plants and painstakingly trace out alpha outlines??
No :) Everything from x frog is banned :)
But seriously,
oh, the idea is to make all the plant stuff in carrara,
and to stay away from "readymades"
so an example might be for you to photograph a leaf
on a white background and use that as your texture,- and with a little feathering of the white selection that will be your alpha map
- you could also use textures and alphas loaded from the net
or hand painted ones
or ones available in Carrara if you must
then replicate on something to make your plant
for billboards I would go the way you always do with your fantastic spherical renders
ie make your plant, render it with alpha and stick it on your "splats"
but as xfrog deals with " ready mades: it's best to avoid them in both the interest of fairness and in helping ourselves explore Carrara's capabilities
same as using howy's wonderfull commercially available plants - it's not really helping us to use Carrara unless we use them soley to see how he made them/
I know you know how to do this so for someone who doesnt
QUICK TUT on Alpha Maps for leaves
1) Find a leaf
2)Place it on white cardboard or black cardboard
3) photograph it trying to avoid shadows or shininess on the cardboard
4) In photoshop duplicate the original picture
5) use the FILTER THRESHOLD to make this layer purely black and white
6) select the outer black area (assuming you used black cardboard) , expand the area with SELECTION MODIFY EXPAND by 'x no of pixels
7) Feather the selection with "x" number of pixels
8) paint on this boarder with black and you should get a soft edge between the black and white areas
9) save this as a separate file and use this in the alpha channel of your leaf shader
10) The original pic of the leaf goes into your Colour chanel of the shader
notes:
a) If you can't see your leaf then invert the texture in the alpha channel
b) The "x' number of pixels that you expand and feather will depend on the pixel amount of your original image
c) you can make a Bump texture from the first by turning it into a greyscale and twiddling the levels and maybe adding a little noise as well
d) This texture can also go in the Highlight (?) channel (or maybe the shininess chanel?)
e) you can also use this method to make photoshop brushes if you take pictures of weeds etc with a cardboard background