TheWoz Posted November 20, 2005 Share Posted November 20, 2005 My TV production class is creating an animated short this year for a statewide film contest (FAME for all you Floridians). I figured that I would start this thread to get some useful critiques. The entire short will take place on a small pond where several frogs are going to sing an acapella version of "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot." I have finished the Frog characters- This is where I've run into my first dilemma. I absolutly LOVE the way the Darktree shader works on this model- It's perfect. But I applied the material at my house on my Windows machine. My school is running A:M off a MacG5. How would I go about ether burning the material on as a texture or creating a new "Mac friendly" A:M texture that looks close what I have. I think I may need to repost this question in the Materials Lab. forum, but I'm not sure. Anyways, thanks for any input. I'm working on the background and more specifically the water- so expect some future inquires about that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattWBradbury Posted November 20, 2005 Share Posted November 20, 2005 Hey Matt. First of all, I noticed that your using way too many lights. Use 1 main light and 1 or 2 minor lights with the lights having 2 ray casts 80% shadows and 4x4 muti-sampeling. Materials are the same for all of the OS's because they're just algorithyms. Just save the material, and bring it in seperatly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWoz Posted November 20, 2005 Author Share Posted November 20, 2005 Oh, ya, the lighting rig is the Skycast demo (which is awsome), I just haven't been able to completely smooth out the shadows. I think that I may just set the Skycast lights to only be diffuse, than use a shadow light with minimal intensity for the shadows. There are 4 lights total- 2 Skycast, 1 specular bulb and 1 diffuse bulb (light yellow color to offset blue hue). I don't think that Darksim makes a Mac version of thier Simbiont A:M plugin (which I think you need to use the Darktree materials). Perhaps Enhance A:M? Thier might be a Mac version of that plugin? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phnxpyre Posted November 21, 2005 Share Posted November 21, 2005 There is something about that left arm/hand... It's like it is twisted really wierd, but other than that... Good job! I love the idea of the frogs singing that song, that will be really funny. Keep us updated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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