thejobe

Just curious when the deadline is. If there is one. Would really like to try this one i just don't have the time at the moment.

minecraft? hmmm never heard of it.

i flew one of these when i was 6 years old!

hes about right the fur takes up alot of the bulk

started building the frame of the car. have alot of cleaning up to do on it but its a start.

Hmm its got styling from like hitch hikers guide of the galaxy I think.

I'm bringing this thread back to the front to continue from where I left off last summer. There are 3 thing I want to learn how to do by end of this year. 1. model at least 2 complex objects. (No more rakes or sticks) 2. Model and rig a character myself 3. Learn to animate that character to some degree correctly. So ill be going back and forth between projects. I think one of the models will be the lancer evo model. so any feed back during this process will be welcomed with opened arms. So lets all learn together over this year and make it an amazing one!

Sure why not lol

Man I need to learn how to model like this. Guess I need another 10 years under my belt.

So since I have a day or two off from work this week I decided to start a new project. I been drawing sketches of cars and other vehicles for a while now So I decided to start with one of my favorite ones. I call it the person mobility machine (PMM) for short. it is good on roads but also gas rockets to fly with Hehe. Here is the design. probably start modeling it tomorrow.

Since we are on the topic anyone know where I can find a good tutorial on.flattening to apply decals perfectly.

yes thank you guys. the cylindrical mode worked best. thanks for the help guys.

here are the maps i made im applying them as decals in the modeling window. ill post the model too so you guys can figure out what im doing better its hard to tell from the image normal_maps_test.zip

well when ever this gets settled im willing to work with someone. just contact me thru the email link in my signature. im pretty good with audio recording and creating sound effects. my video editing are at par as well. my animation skills are meh so so at best.

well im trying new stuff again. i tried a new type of decaling with normal maps. but im having some trouble with applying them. im able to get the look i want with them but along the edges of decal where the wrap ends im getting some curling. now someone told me about applying them in a pose but i dont see how this helps. can anyone explain this any better. as you can see on the top of the hammer where my problem is located.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! 3 hours 40 mins to go for me. but ill by at work by then

well i sent the file last night with instructions to do 1080p render. my friend got up this morning telling me that the machine has crashed and has to be redone. he was saying that the process split was not from the A:M software. i dont understand his tech speak sometimes but he mention something about software to hardware interrupts with a software instruction set relay system. if that makes any sense to anyone. once he gets it up and running again im going to give it another try. this has been an on and off thing for the last year now so didnt expect it to work this time. would of been cool though. it handled the small image ok though.

to save time ill post what i posted in another forum about the box. its an IBM mini, not your normal computer. someone was throwing away who deals in very large corporate type computing (banks and etc.) the machine itself usually runs for about $5000-9000 but the software to run on it starts in the range of $50,000-150,000. so i took the machine as is sans software. been working to get it running a unix based version but its not seeing all components yet. each core is rated at 800mhz. it can handle up to 256 processes at one instance. i do have access to a larger machine (that one is amazing. has 600 blades and each blade is a server. each server has 16 cores.) and im working with the guy who runs it to help me get mine running. from what hes saying my machine can handle up to 8 versions of windows XP running at the same time each version having 4 cores dedicated. I have it semi working but can only handle so much at one time. this was a good test for it. i was using about 50% of its full potential. as far as the actual on screen setup this is what i got. there are 36 versions of the same Windows running at the same time. the machine knows its 36 but it sees it as one (dont ask me how! i dont know as my friend hes the expert in this stuff) basicly when i send it out to render on that machine it is processing the prj as 1 item but it is spliting up the process into 36 parts. once each part is completed it puts it back together. got to give props to my friend for figuring this one out.

I just sent the project file to the render box. Should get results in a bit. If its too fast ill do a high res render Edit: i just got the results back im going to have to do a bigger render because it was too fast for it to make any sense. final time on the render box on low res was 0:23 (mins:secs) so im going to set it up to do the render at 1080p and see how long that takes.

took my work machine and put it thru the test... i think i need a new work machine. i guess its showing its age. tonight ill send it to the render box and see how that beast does final time was 6:18 (mins:secs) this machine is kind of old its only a AMD 64 6000+ running a 32 bit windows (wow i screwed that up) 8GB of ram 3GB usable (wait what? have to look into that) so i think its time for an upgrade myself

i finished the playset i replaced the chains with rope it just renders faster and doesnt bog down the machine. Click here for model

another update finished most of the details just got to add a roof and some other small things total patch count as of now 20041 mostly its the chains. i think i might replace them for rope

i work ferociously when i start something. then i pass out and wake up 5 hours later (with the letter G and Q printed on my forehead every time somehow) and then i move at a normal pase or until i get hungry.

wow that looks amazing. much better than the lego model i made back in V14 Mine is actually in the forums contributor Cue if you want to take a look at it.

just giving spleen an update on his swing set he requested. got most of the major framing done. worked on it for about 2 hours. its just under 4000 patches so far. behind the rock wall is a bench and in the back is a ladder.