Eric Camden
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Well, now that I've had more than my share of humble pie, I may think twice about smack talking again. Since my main purpose for this thread was to try and get more people to enter, I will console myself into believing that at least in that I may have contributed in doing that.
Again, congrats to all the winners and artists that contributed. It was a great turnout. Maybe we can take Rodney's suggestion and start a thread with all entries and links to the respective pages telling a bit about how they were created.
Cheers
-E
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Ok, I'll admit it, I'm a total geek - that white render with the wireframe just makes me feel fuzzy all over
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Deadline for Mascot contest is October 1st.
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Congratulations to the winners and all who entered. This was a great outing with fantastic entries. Can't wait to see what next month will bring.
Remember, next month is the "Mascot". That winner will have his work displayed on the Hash CD for the year. Biggest contest of the year. Start early and make it your best.
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Just wanted to chime in that I'm back at work on the castle and airship.
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Hammer:
that's a pretty nasty cough, you should take something for that
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Can we still call you anything we want?
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That's why you're the Grand PoohBah! It worked. The major change was resetting the gamma correction from 1.0 to 2.2. I must have played around with the gamma without setting it back.
Thank you Martin
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Neither of those apply Ken. To make sure, I tried opening the same project on my laptop, and it's fine there. I'm using a USB memory stick to store the project on. Like I said, it's this way with all projects now. The only thing I can think of is ZoneAlarm firewall and program control. When I booted up, I got a message saying that System32 is trying to act as a server. Since it gave me no further information and this did not sound like something normal was happening, I chose the option to deny the request. Maybe AM was the program that made the request and now it's not running right? If that's the case, I'm not sure how to correct it now. I did close both AM and Zonealarm to try and run AM without running Zonealarm in the background, but I still got the blackened chor. Very frustrating. I wonder if I should uninstall and reinstall AM?
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I had to leave on a business trip this past Friday and just came back. When I left, AM was running perfectly on my desktop. Upon turning my desktop on just now, I was very surprised to find that my WIP chor, which had no issues last Friday, now looks like all lights are down to about 10%, almost black. Naturally the values in the PWS have not changed, but the chor is almost black nonetheless. Thinking this might be a corrupt project file, I loaded a completely different project from a few weeks ago. The chor in that project also had the same problem, almost black. I opened one more old project and found the same. Since all chors were affected, I knew it had to be something other than the project files. The next step was to close AM down, shut down my computer, and re-open both. Upon getting AM back up and running, I was surprised to find that the problem persisted. Nothing else seems to be affected, and my projects look fine on my laptop.
Has anyone had a similar experience? I also checked my Gamma setting under "Tools", but that was still where I had left it on Friday, 1.0. I'm a bit stumped right now and any suggestions are appreciated.
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Hmmm, maybe next time I won't be doing so much trash talking to keep the competition managable.....naaahhhhhhhh!
Really awesome entries and fantastic turnout - everyone is a winner for entering. There is a lot of hard work, long hours, and effort displayed here. Solid all around!
-E
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You are absolutely right. I had been using Bitmap so much lately for uneven surfaces that I got stuck into one-way thinking
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This is the first I've seen of this post and it's already closed?
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Then I would suggest a search on "Bitmap Plus". It's included in AM and does a great job on tiles.
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Be a little more specific. There is glazed ceramic, terra cotta style (like a ceramic pot for plants) and everything in between. I would guess you want a glazed look? If so, then you would have to work with a combination of specular size, intensity, and reflection. You could probably get away with faking reflections by using a material with an environment map in it. Depending on how involved you want to get, you could double skin the model to get a dual specular effect. Here's an example:
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Thanks Steve. I will check that.
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It usually takes about three or four days until the voting page is up. Since this is a holiday, it might take another day.
I hope Steve is on vacation, because I still have not received confirmation of my entry.
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Here is an example of what could be done. Now you have a smaller 5 pointer that may not pose a problem. The arrows indicate that you could move the splines higher to make an even smaller 5 point patch. Btw, if that's a hair piece, you don't need to have the closed patches on the bottom where it connects to the skull. Kinda hard to see what's going on from the pics.
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I have never seen a model that cannot be modified to move or reduce a 5 pointer. As Ken pointed out, that patch is very stretched out and may cause problems. For a 5 point patch, you want it to be as close to flat as possible, or as close to curving all 5 points equally as possible. Also, try to get all sides to be similar lengths.
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The tube idea won't work for the reasons you described. My first thought is to have the emitter follow the path and turn the life of the particles way up.
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Send my work to other places???? Wow, I didn't know you were that afraid of my entry. So sorry, it's been send, and you my friend are going down...muahahahahahahahahahah!
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I appreciate it, David. Thanks
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Gorf:
Compositing is fine as long as the main subject is done with AM. Wouldn't be much of a contest if you had a picture of a cityscape and the only thing done in AM is a model of the sun over the city. The main gist is to showcase your talent with AM, not your talent with pasting jpegs together. Pretty simple. Now get to it and turn in somethign cool.
Marcos:
I was under the impression all along that you would enter. Can't wait to see what you'll come up with. "It's a dead heat, the're neck-n-neck, it'll be a photo finish..."
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in (2008)
Wow, finally someone with the same problem. I've had this happen to me for over 6 months now and don't know the cure. Maybe we can get to the bottom of it with this thread?
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Hello friends:
Just wanted to post my contest entry and a wireframe of the scene. I've worked on it a little bit more, but the basics are unchanged. I really wanted to keep the modeling to a minimum and concentrate more on the mood and lighting. AM v.15 has been very stable when it came to putting all these lights in a scene. Most of the lights have lens flares turned on to get the effect I was after. I also used smoke particles, although the background is comprised of two camera rotoscopes, one with stars and moon, and the other one with the majority of the background smoke. Feel free to leave any comments or questions.
-E