Mustafar catwalk (Work in Progress)

Hey, for the terrain, did you do the same way as before ? Have you used a displacement map ?

 

yeah i use displacement map. Ive tried both default max one and vray one. Vray displacement map is a lot quicker and more detailed (calulates during rendering) default one needs a lot of polys and i have max crashed lately a lot. Bad thing about vray displacement mod is that u can use only one map per object(or its just i dont know how to use more than one ) whereas with default max u can have many, so u could do the landscapes and then another map to get like rivers or stuff all over the landscape and another one to get more sharp, rocky.

The rock shader is fine on this hill, but if i was to put on area of high and low cliffs/mountains - it looks bad. I guess I am mapping bad. I use UWV mapping - plane.

The sky is done in afterburn. It looks wierd in the corners for me too , and it wasnt itended for mustafar sky, just played around night time look.
BTW afterburn is really great plugin . The smoke and clouds can be great looking(if lighting is proper), i havent tried much the explode daemon or any other daemons tho.

I did a test thing using explode daemon(the head of the asteroid, smoke is afterburn too)

[image=http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g296/Lookfilms/hotdayinmiami-1.jpg]



Lookfilms

 

I think you can use more than one map, like if you pick a map it will just dissappear and it'll be set to the modifier, but if you go to the material editor and drag the map (the button displaying the map) to a new material slot you'll be able to edit it like a regular map, it's just not under a full shader material.

 

Usually what i do is, i go to material editor, i import the procedural map(new bitmap, my .tga file) and then i drag the material slot into the vraydisplacement mod tex map slot.

I read from u that, if i drag from the vray displacement tex map button to material editor free slot, and if if i edited that one to different from the original. And i would end up haveing both used by single vraydisplacement modifier?Doesnt sound like it could or i missread.

I actually got already better results yesterday, I used bigger procedural map for smaller area and more polys, less features. Looks bretty good, maybe have to render in layers, mountains behind other mountains separetly.

I will try to render tonight,hopefully soon I can show what i got.


Look.

 

I mean like if you wanted to use more than just a single bitmap or something, when you select what you want as the map for the displacement modifier it doesn't let you select it, to change the map, so if you had a noise map for displacement you would have to go with the default noise settings. To change those settings you can just drag the map you applied to a new material slot and edit it. I may have misunderstood what you said and I could be going off on a strange tangent, if so then disregard this.

On another idea, if you want to apply different maps, couldn't you apply more than one vraydisplacement modifier?

 

Amazing!

 

Update?

 

lol, Pixelmagic, asking for an update? Feeling a bit challenged by his work? Don't worry about it, updates will come when they come. I haven't seen him online in quite a while, and when he is he's generally AFK.

 

I havent been working on mustafar projects too often.

I kind of suck at materials and texturing ,so ive been trying to learn and improve. Seems to me that materials and mapping are even more important than proper lighting for good image.

Heres a latest rock shader ive got. Its not anything complicated at all: It just a seamless rocky photo (hires) and specular level, bump, displacement map of it.

[image=http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/9175/testrenderbigcl5.jpg]

 

Looks very nice though.

 

Looks good.

 

Yes, I agree. That's a very convincing rock.

 

Looking good looking good...

 

thanks for the support. I have finaly started working on a some of the shots that dont need actors .

Lookfilms.

 

ahh... long not worked on mustafar.

There are more updates on:

http://www.scifi-meshes.com/forums/3d-wips/2435-mustafar-enviroment-project-ii.html


Heres latest update i did few days ago. I also began texturing it . Its the balcony:

[image=http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/7953/balconywipwr4.jpg]

And heres a lava animation test, its a simple small flow, focused more on the material at this point. I think it came out pretty good, at least my older testings are 1000 times uglier lol.

http://www.savefile.com/files/471184

Lookfilms

 

That looks really nice, checking out the animation now.

 

Lava looks a little thin. Otherwise excellent.

 

The balcony looks awesome, very accurate.

The lava flow has really good looking materials, and the heat shimmer looks cool too, but I don't think it would work any closer than the angle you have.

 

Thanks. and thanks for suggestions.

I im pretty optimistic with the lava. its just right now i used my old old realflow simulated liquid to test the material and lighting,also i did the mask for lava/rock very sloppy and quick. And it is a litle more bumpier (not so smooth) in raw frames. Compression makes it blurrier. I was pretty much in hurry to see if my idea is gonna work, so i didnt put much effort into all the elements.

I dont think i would get any closer, i would say this flow is not more than 3m/8feet wide, so if it was a river thats how close u would get but a lot wider. Hard part will be generating more randomness, spurting lava, rock islands...


Lookfilms

 

Just... on awesome. Glad to see your still working on it.

 

...I did tonight somemore after a while. I modeled the bottom of balcony, I need to fix a scale issue with the upper row of tiles, their too big i guess. Next i need to add support beam kind of things beneath balcony that connect to rock. And then its left the ceiling and roof . I ve noticed how many small lights everywhere is in the mustafar in the movie, which makes it looks so real too. Its almost 400 000 polys.

[image=http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/628/balconywip2qh8.jpg]

Texturing this will be complicated XP. I need to find a way to group it wisely and have huge maps instead of small separates. I definetley wanna avoid texture tiling.

 

OMG OMG OMG! thats simply A-W-E-S-O-M-E ! i though u gave up... but thank god ur still doing miracles!

and btw... what renderer are u using ? mental ? ...

 

<disregard, wrong thread >

 

Nice u have made some real progress since the last time I visited this thread.