robcat2075

I think that is much improved. Changing the ray-traced sun light to a Z-buffered Kleig light and using regular render instead of multi-pass probably gained most of the render speed improvement. I'd suggest tweaking some keyframes of the truck motion so it's not sliding sideways in its turns as it follows the road.

You can tone the fog effect down but you need some to get a more realistic look. Notice how the distant details in this landscape are subdued by "fog" even though it is a clear day. The farther away they are, the more the are colored by the fog. That's an easier solution!

I would call that "washed out" or "over bright" that doesn't look pixelated in the sample you've posted. The reason it is over bright is that the "Key light" and "Fill light" are shining on it. If you turn them off the color looks normal again. You can use Light Lists to make lights light only certain objects http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showt...p;hl=light+list The first advice I should have given is to NOT start any lighting project with the A:M default lighting. It is only good for making sure new users see something in the chor. It's not good for any sort of movie lighting and it's not a standard three-point setup even. The faster way to do lighting is to start with no lights and then add the one light that will be the main source of illumination and get the scene looking as good as possible with just that. Then you add other lesser lights as needed to fill in dark areas or highlight edges or whatever. On that sky dome... since your camera doesn't pan in that shot you could use a much smaller flat card at the back of your scene with a cloud image on it. On that cloud image... that one looks like the camera was pointed up at the sky and doesn't look like clouds at the horizon. Even puffy clouds recede into the distance as if they are on a ceiling, not as if they are on a wall that contacts the ground. There's never a case where the top of a cloud will peek above a level horizon. These clouds are all about the same but the ones near the horizon are much smaller because they are farther away. The only one that contacts the ground line is the one behind a mountain:

I think the composition would look more interesting if Saturn weren't so horizontal and if both bodies weren't front lit. If they were more side lit or rear lit they would make interesting shapes.

All those links come up 404

Lots of useful tactics suggested here. Paul, something that would be useful is if you posted an image from a movie that was like what you were wanting to get. "Movie look" could be a lot of things.

One item I'd note is that the orange guy doesn't land with much weight. He shoudl squash into a crouch more instead of just falling into a standing position.

I forgot the bitmap. A better one could be made with experimentation.

It seems to be possible to customize the icon for .exe (program) files but data files seem to require the uniform icons for all files of a type.

I'm not sure what the intention of the particles in this scene is. Are there supposed to be some? When I render with particles ON I don't see anything but they take a long time to compute. Here's one lighting scheme. I've used fog to make make the background seem farther away. I changed the "sun" light to a z-buffered Kleig to render faster and used two of them. The overhead sun is fuzzy to suggest an AO shadow beneath the car. The other is sharper and tilted to the side to make a more interesting shadow presence in the scene. I added a bitmap to it so it wouldn't be just the exact same light all over. It's sort of like a partly cloudy day. This lighting is designed to be fast. These take about 7 seconds to render This PRJ has all the render settings in the camera so you want to set "Use Camera Settings" in Options Panel. SampleProject05.prj

The sample PRJ just has a car on a road no building. Is that intended? Does he know he's on the wrong side of the road?

Good hand! Yeah, you'll want to thin that out. I don't know how anatomically accurate they have to be but 8 CPs around the circumference of a finger out to be enough for most movie making purposes.

Happy Birthday, Steffen! Thanks for all your good work! Copyright free birthday greeting: 8DHH1ufQk7M

hmmm... there used to be a feature where the open dialog would show you a preview of the model but it was PC only and has been taken out. I guess you're wanting to change the actual icon of the file? I don't know if that's possible.

Here is me trying it with mixed results... SnapProblem.mov the CPs on the edge don't seem to "get it"

In this PRJ, Model 1 has two groups, "target" and "original" SimpleSnapTest02.prj I want to Snap the CPs in "original" so they are on the surface of "target" and I want to do it in a Pose. They don't have to be in some exact spot but i do want to get them on the surface of "target" What is the proper way to use Snap TO Surface for that? I haven't had much success with it.

It seems like in the history of computer graphics there have been almost as many proposals to make computer graphics interchangeable as there have been computer graphics.

Stretch frames...

On the 11 Second club forum someone compared this to the Popeye cartoons where they put cels in front of a model they built. What if the Fleischers had thought of cutting out those cels and sticking them in the models? They could have done lots of crazy stuff.

Sorry to hear about your back getting hurt!

Thanks! Have a good trip.

Bumping this to remind all the talented A:M modelers to get in and not miss out!

Granny is a vampire, she doesn't cast a shadow. from "Tweety's S.O.S." I haven't gotten to it yet, but I bet it is, too.

Ghostly! Good looking face.

Does changing that spline make all the other patches lose their texture? Is it possible to edit the topology in the polygon app before exporting so that it doesn't present splines that run around the model so many times?