photoman Posted January 7, 2009 Posted January 7, 2009 Ok I decided to make a Marble Roller Coaster . I have actually already finished it for the most part except rendering which I need to ship off to my render node. Here are some stills and cam tests. It's short though next one is going to be longer and the next one is going to be a Newton Bonanza! Tests.mov C&C Welcome -Photoman Quote
rusty Posted January 7, 2009 Posted January 7, 2009 Ok I decided to make a Marble Roller Coaster . I have actually already finished it for the most part except rendering which I need to ship off to my render node. Here are some stills and cam tests. It's short though next one is going to be longer and the next one is going to be a Newton Bonanza! C&C Welcome -Photoman I like it! Different that's for sure! I just had my screens calibrated and the only crit is that it looks pretty dark (or my calibration was not done well). Will you place a camera on the ball (or whatever it is) that comes down this thing? Next, instead of a water slide... a lava slide? Rusty Quote
mouseman Posted January 7, 2009 Posted January 7, 2009 Looking good! I've tried a marble rollercoaster before, and had some problems. Yours turned out quite well! Quote
Gerry Posted January 7, 2009 Posted January 7, 2009 that's a great start! Though I don't get what happens at the very start. Where does the ball drop from? Quote
photoman Posted January 7, 2009 Author Posted January 7, 2009 Thanks! I rendered those on a Macbook pro so it is set to LCD Gamma I think. The ball is just dropped... I plan to have it so when the ball ends in the funnel thingy that it will be "teleported" to the next coaster Im making. Quote
phatso Posted January 8, 2009 Posted January 8, 2009 kouwill. on the next one, howbout a spiral part of the track? when you put the camera at the ball, that'll be a real mind bender. Quote
photoman Posted January 8, 2009 Author Posted January 8, 2009 I have many sketches (What else are you supposed to do at school?) of various tracks. This next one (If my computer ever finishes rendering (20 hours for 5 seconds!)) is going to have a helix(es?) a loop and MAYBE dominoes . Though all depends on if it is possible with newton dynamics. (The jump in the movie above took about 1 hour to get right it involved simulating with no landing and putting in a track piece and righting down the translation and rotation and then reverting the project to before the simulation and putting the track in . AND it takes forever line up the tracks perfectly ) Photoman Quote
photoman Posted January 8, 2009 Author Posted January 8, 2009 Here is a 5minute test I did with the sweeper plugin: untitled.mov Just ignore the random pieces I forgot to delete. Photoman Quote
Masna Posted January 9, 2009 Posted January 9, 2009 Great job so far, Photoman! I'm loving the idea; it's just so original. I really like how you were able to get that grimy, rusty feeling on the textures. Can't wait to see more. =) Quote
photoman Posted January 9, 2009 Author Posted January 9, 2009 To be truthful all the textures besides the terrain/water (In the funnel thingy) and marble where darktrees. Photoman PS I have 2 cameras that have finished rendering. Quote
John Bigboote Posted January 9, 2009 Posted January 9, 2009 Great job so far, Photoman! I'm loving the idea; it's just so original. Hey now... I did a similar thing last July- http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showt...=32812&st=0 Yours is looking good, P-Man! Quote
photoman Posted January 10, 2009 Author Posted January 10, 2009 FINISHED!! Here is the video. http://vimeo.com/2778061 Thanks for the feedback and support! Photoman Quote
MasterFunk Posted January 10, 2009 Posted January 10, 2009 That title in the beginning is awesome. Great job on all of it. Quote
photoman Posted January 10, 2009 Author Posted January 10, 2009 Thanks! There should be more in coming weeks but I also have finals in coming weeks . Photoman Quote
John Bigboote Posted January 10, 2009 Posted January 10, 2009 Very enjoyable! Great titles...looks like you are quite adept at Newton. Quote
photoman Posted January 11, 2009 Author Posted January 11, 2009 Started the second coaster. It is near finished I just have to tweak some stuff and add camera paths and misc stuff. Here are some stills and previews. Coaster2_low.mov More C&C welcome Photoman Quote
John Bigboote Posted January 11, 2009 Posted January 11, 2009 STANDING OVATION!!! Rube Goldberg would be very proud! I implore you to keep going! Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted January 11, 2009 Hash Fellow Posted January 11, 2009 That's impressive. What do we have to do to keep the ball from penetrating the track edges sometimes? Quote
photoman Posted January 11, 2009 Author Posted January 11, 2009 Its the way I set it to render in realtime. It renders as smooth curves reguraly. Why I have it that way? Accidently clicked it Quote
photoman Posted January 20, 2009 Author Posted January 20, 2009 Ok production has slowed a bit b/c of finals this week YAY! I am now rendering everything! About 60hours into it so Im guessing it will be done by the end of the week. Hold tight! Peaks: The light is visible at the end of the tunnel. Photoman Quote
Admin Rodney Posted January 20, 2009 Admin Posted January 20, 2009 Too much fun. ...and a great way to experiment with A:M and Newton Dynamics. Its hard to resist rolling a few marbles of our own. I've enjoyed all your renders thus far. Really looking forward to the final render! Quote
photoman Posted January 21, 2009 Author Posted January 21, 2009 Thanks! Hit a speedbump... A 16 hour render of the flythrough camera has some "black" patches I need to fix so I have to rerender that.... Also been thinking... This would also be a great idea for a tutorial. I used the sweeper plugin, newton dynamics plugin, several custom materials, etc! Photoman Quote
photoman Posted January 29, 2009 Author Posted January 29, 2009 Finally finsihed rendering editing and all that fun. About 100 hours of rendering on my laptop and pc node. I uploading to Youtube as I am writing this and will post link when it finishes. Photoman Quote
photoman Posted January 29, 2009 Author Posted January 29, 2009 Here is the final version (as of yet): Thanks for all the help! C&C Welcome Photoman Quote
jason1025 Posted February 4, 2009 Posted February 4, 2009 Great work, I also like the song in the u tube video, what is the name and who performs it? Quote
photoman Posted February 4, 2009 Author Posted February 4, 2009 Thanks! The song is called: "The Contradanza" by The Planets. I got it from a 100 track TRANCE album which my friend lent me (CD's). It's not on itunes though, I checked. Photoman Quote
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