Eon (3D Scene) Entry: Simen Andreas Skogheim

[thondal]

figured out i might make the deadline on this one. I was thinking of the creation chamber, though i´m not quite sure yet. Will be reading the documentation that is on the challenge page (since the only book we have in our library is borrowed till 11th november).

Most of all i´m hoping to learn some new stuff and have fun. Good luck to everyone else.

-thondal-

[thondal]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1161677913_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1161677913_large.jpg)

Just trying to visualize an idea.

[thondal]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1161686151_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1161686151_large.jpg)

started on the water/river that is supposed to be in the image. Never done a river before or water before, so i´m quite happy with this first result. Going to be working a bit more on it when i start really texturing and refining the whole project, but for now this is enough. There will also be a waterfall in the distance... not sure if i´m going to be using particles for it or not. More updates later. Any C&C would be nice btw :D

[thondal]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1161688847_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1161688847_large.jpg)

Just playing around with the water. Does this look better? not sure my self... looks more like an ocean then the river feeling i´m looking for.. oh well.

[claudiojordao]

Hey thondal, for the mean time, it looks just fine, but it could even be better if the water reflects something :) like the all ambience... let's go... show us more.

[thondal]

thanx. Not very good at texturing.. that´s my problem, but right now i´m just testing out and at the same time learning. Going to give it a go on the landscape soon. Will add a skie, and the clouds will be real meshes/particles so that they will give a sense of depth in the picture... Thanks for the comment;) still have about 1-2 hours left that i can work today :D

-thondal-

[thondal]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1161694166_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1161694166_large.jpg)

Made a landscape for a 3d sketch before i call in for today. i have to change the mountains and a lot of stuff, but not the worst. The landscape will be covered by grass and trees/vegetation.

[TheSoracle]

Hey:D What's up Thondal?

Any newson magical pictures? The url is too long to remember so i had to bookmark it.

Good luck on your challenge. I dont know if i will be on for a while, I'm still tired from my swim meet and homework. I will try though.

Anyway, your water kinda looks like ice just to let you know :D

Keep up the good work!

- Steven

[thondal]

ok, then i'll just add some snow then :P lol.. well not sure what to do yet. When it comes to the water, i'll probably work a bit more on it. Also thinking of widening the river, add a waterfall, a river from one of the mountains, and then add some depth in the view, and a sky too. Lots of stuff remaining. All C&C are welcome

-thondal-

[thondal]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1161768133_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1161768133_large.jpg)

Just trying out grass with particles. Working fine i guess. Not sure how the result would be with the whole plane/ground covered with particles.. going to kill my computer... oh well.

[johnnymaster]

hey, the grass looks nice, maybe adding a little specular? Good luck mate!

[thondal]

lol... hard to answer this when i´m not good at this... Will read about the spec ;) :P

-thondal-

[thondal]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1161771807_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1161771807_large.jpg)

Added the grass on the whole landscape... didn´t turn out too bad.

[chaitanyak]

like the water, and the grass. am no good with plants n stuff. will probably do a building or machine or something. best of luck.

[thondal]

Will probably do some buildings or spaceships eventually, but i´m waiting for the book. Have to read it.. going to take about 2 days, so... oh well. Untill then i´ll just continue with this concept, and see where it gets me. But it is a good thing in all of this... :P in 2 days, i have learned more about particles, light, shading and water... so... i guess when i´m done, i´m a bit smarter.. :D

-thondal-

[TheSoracle]

I like the new grass, looks really good. The bottom right pic of collage is best. ANyway, try to add some details to sky :D

[thondal]

Yes, i´m working on the sky now.. but the problem is when rendering clouds with blenders particle system, or volumetric clouds, then it takes like forever to render it.. right now, just to render one cloud it takes like 15-20 minutes of rendering on my macbook... So, but will hopefully be able to post some result within 1-2 hours.

-thondal-

[thondal]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1161850335_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1161850335_large.jpg)

just a little test with clouds. Had some problems while rendering.. took like 15 minutes the first test, when i found a setting that should have been turned off... then everyone of the others rendered within 30 seconds.

[thondal]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1161850439_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1161850439_large.jpg)

The final result of the cloud testing. Not the worst i could conjure at least.

[simovici]

I like the clouds you made. Particle simulation or just a cloud shader? What software do you use?

[thondal]

The software is Blender. I used a particle system and added a cloud texture on it, gave them a life span and alpha for transparency. Thanx for the reply.. will be uploading an image with the whole scene and the clouds. ;)

-thondal-

[thondal]

just found out that from long distances the particles become more clear and the cloud doesnt even look anything like a cloud anymore.. So i have to find out if i can fix it in the settings or if i have to find another approach on the clouds..

-thondal-

[Leichim]

You used tangent shading and blend texture on strand map input for the grass? It looks nice, but you might add some colored textures so the grass varies more in color, and add more particle emitting (static) objects with lower or higher values, so you have real difference between the lenght of grass.

Pretty good job sofar :).

[thondal]

thanks. Yes, but I´m currently just working to get the scene up and going. I might just redesign the whole concept or scene,but right now i´m testing out how things work. Going to be reading the book a week from now, so hopefully I will get some new ideas then. I fixed my problem with the cloud. Almost at least, so i might be able to use the particles for cloud. The grass was made of particles and so on, but i guess i could always work a bit more on the variation of lenght and texture. But right now i´m out of time. More updates tomorrow.

Thanks for all the crits and comments so far.

-thondal-

[mmoir]

Hey SImen,


I am waiting for the book to read as well. I liked the water tests you have done and the grass tests but I do have a couple of comments. Your concept is showing a very large scene and I think your grass (particles) won't really be seen. I think I would use a texture map for the grass and shape the terrain (changes in elevation) to give it definition. Just a thought.
Good luck the rest of the way and I agree with you that these challenges are a great learning experience.

[TheSoracle]

Clouds are looking pretty sweet. They look as if they were painted into the sky :p Can't wait to see when you put the two together.

Im kinda busy and will be for a while unfortunately so this challenge will certainly be a hassle. Oh well, my first challenge should be like that.

[Gunilla]

Hej! Some nice start for landscape here! I like the look of the water and the clouds looks real well.
I haven't read the book either, but there has to be a landscape like this somewhere, right? :)

[thondal]

hm.. still having some minor problems with the clouds, but i will post an update very soon with some clouds

-thondal-

[thondal]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1161951133_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1161951133_large.jpg)

Finaly managed to get the clouds working somewhat properly. Had to move everything into a new scene and had to start over 2 times, because i messed up everything, and i kinda forgot to save (note to myself, don´t do that again). But the clouds are now in the scene, and i have changed the background color of the "world" so that it goes from light blue to darker blue. And the grass has been modified a bit.

any c&c?

[thondal]

Ok. Next update will come tomorrow. I will then be working on the waterfall from one of the mountains. Will fix the clouds a bit, and the ground a bit more. I might use alpamaps or poly to poly on the grass instead of the particles i have now. Will also take another look one the water maybe. If anyone have a suggestion on what i might fix, then please do say so.

-thondal-

[thondal]

ok, so the updates will come a bit later.. my brother paid the pdf version of the book, so i will start reading that as soon as i get home.. hopefully i will get some better ideas when i´m close to done with it.. or while reading it... Wish me good luck! :P

-thondal-

[thondal]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1162536930_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1162536930_large.jpg)

Ok, not nearly finished with the book, but I got some ideas on the alexandria city in the second chamber. I still have to figure out a few things before finishing this city and that is. 1. Under standing the coordinates in the book, how many librarys there are and how many megas there are and where they all are or where they most likely are. But I started on a few sketches of the city, and here is the results.

[thondal]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1162537083_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1162537083_large.jpg)

Here´s a top view of alexandria... somebody commented it looked like a boat. :P lol... i think so too :P

[thondal]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1162539612_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1162539612_large.jpg)

Ok, so heres what i´ve comed up with. Next will be to start on some sketches and modleing some buildings. This will be my first time modeling buildings, but I hope to at least have one building ready and ideas for many more. Please wish me good luck, this is my first real big project, and all encouragment i can get i will take :P. Would just like to say to all (even though most wont read this) that there are so many great works and models in this contest, and it is really inspiring.

[TheFirstAngel]

very nice start. for saving resources you can put in your scene with a bonus of extrapoly's it helps much to make sure what will be visable or not. far range things might be ok if meduim or low detailed with detailing rendered to normalmaps or grass just as texture, so the all over complecity has sort of a detailing fall off towards the horizon.
keep up the great work and hope that point helps you in your pcreationprogress :) keep on rocing! :beer::buttrock::wip:

[Leichim]

Looks very good indeed. I really see a progress going on here.
I thought it was a boat too, a bit floating city

[thondal]

having some minor problems.. not sure how to do the buildings and not having too much time finding out... but I guess I will get there... working on some ideas now, but hope it will turn out allright... I have a few ideas on what to do, but I just hope i can get them through..



-thondal-

[HowieFarkes]

Hi there, your city is coming along nicely. Perhaps introduce some more variation to the buildings so they're not just square blocks. And maybe some structures that are somewhere between the heights of the major towers and the lower buildings so that those towers don't look so lonely.

[thondal]

well, according to the book the high buildings - "the megas" - are about 4 kilometers high.... so... not sure how i can make the other buildings that high. but i will think about it... it's weekend now, so wont be doing anything about the city this weekend.

-thondal-

[Mataii]

well, according to the book the high buildings - "the megas" - are about 4 kilometers high.... so... not sure how i can make the other buildings that high. but i will think about it... it's weekend now, so wont be doing anything about the city this weekend.

-thondal-

Hello :)

Nice to see more people working with blender :bounce: , I just only wanted to say that I did a little test on volumetrics shaders (faked, but fast) in blender, so if you need more realistic effects in clouds, maybe you'll find usefull :thumbsup:

Links to some video of the test:

http://salvador.mata.com.mx/blends/fireball5a.avi A fireball test

http://salvador.mata.com.mx/blends/clouds.avi Cloud test :)


Keep working :) !

[Edited] the blend http://salvador.mata.com.mx/blends/fakevolumetrcs.blend

[thondal]

wow! Cool.. loved those volumetric clouds of yours Mataii. Could I ask you for the link to the tutorial? Guess i´ll try to make something close to that later. I´m currently having problem finding time modeling, I have to work a lot.. there were like 4 bills waiting for me the other day... and they are still waiting and long overdue, :P so just have to do some overtime at work to make the wheels go together... oh well..

But i´m hoping to be able to do some updates today if I manage to find some time between the work :P. I´m closing in on an idea on how to make the buildings... I see that if I don´t start on them very soon I probably wont be able to finish this project properly :P


-thondal-

[zegenie]

Must say that the new scene looks really good. Looking forward to seeing what you'll be able to accomplish with this one.

Keep it up!

[thondal]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1163666187_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1163666187_large.jpg)

Ok... so.. this is going to become one of the megas.. currently it looks more like a lava lamp and a giraff, but i´m hoping that it will take shape as I work on it. My main problem will be to texture it, because i really suck at texturing. So I guess I will use at least a few days to get my result.
I´ve seen some of the megas that people have made, and i´m amazed, and I would be happy if mine where 10% of that cool.

-thondal-

[thondal]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1163684538_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1163684538_large.jpg)

A bit more modeling.. Not yet there with the shape of the mega. Any advices? encouragments? :P I´ve never made buildings before.

-thondal-

[johnnymaster]

hey,

thanks for the comment over in my thread! Of course i could give you some advises, let me see......are you going to merge these three parts together later? I think the most important on modeling is to achieve realistic scale proportiones, a good balance between big shapes and fine details. I'm curious to see the concept sketch of this building if you have some, because i'm not sure how they will look like at the end. In addition its a lot easier to model with a concept sketch as reference.

see you later

[taavi]

Hi there, Simen!
I like the "island" design of the city. The mega building looks a bit stange - more like some kind of alien household item. Maybe if you harpen the edges, the form would be more suitable for the building-right now its too soft . Here is the link to really cool future skyscrapers (http://www.davidszondy.com/future/city/skyscraper.htm) :). Maybe it inspires a bit?
Best,
Taavi

[thondal]

@johnnymaster:
thanks.
I really don´t have a clear concept.. more like... in my head, but i can make one quick and show you what i was thinking... it´s going to suck though.. :P (edit: sorry, no concept, I just took a look at my model, and I found out.. that I really hadnt thought further :P) but will start on a new concept, inspired by the link i got from taavi ;)


@taavi: Thank you for the link. It actually did inspire me. I´m trying to come up with a better sketch/concept and a bit more "hard" building, and not so organic.

-thondal-

[thondal]

Finally!! I got this great idea! The building might look stupid, but at least I think this one will work. I just finished sketching it on paper, drawing it in ps now. Oh, and I will also post a sketch of the bridge wich is mentioned in the book. Got some new ideas on how the other buildings are going to look like and a few other stuff. Stay tuned, updates hopefully all day :D... that is if I get some time off here at work :P

-thondal-

[thondal]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1163750217_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1163750217_large.jpg)

Ok, so here is the concept. Looks a bit shabby, but I got the concept clear in my head, and the drawing looks a bit better at least on paper. This was just a 2-3 minutes sketch.

more updates soon.

-thondal-

[thondal]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1163753048_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1163753048_large.jpg)

Ok, so here is the first step of my modeling prosess.. I have a long day ahead of me to get this done :P

-thondal-

[thondal]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1163754991_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1163754991_large.jpg)

So... heres a bit more update on the tower.. I might start on the bridge now, and then do a bit more on the tower later. But now I just need COFFEE!!

-thondal-

[taavi]

This model certainly looks better then the first tryout :)

BTW - just black coffe or latte?

I'll go for latte :D

[thondal]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1163759594_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1163759594_large.jpg)

Ok, so here is a bit better render. I actually rendered this time. Render time: 2,67 sec :P (ooh, useful info :P)

ok, so, I´m a bit stuck right now, and I forgot to get my coffee a while back, so now I will go get me a cup of coffe

@taavi: black ;) i´m at work and thats all they have :P

-thondal-

[taavi]

No cream? No sugar? Damn! ;)

[thondal]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1163773843_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1163773843_large.jpg)

Ok... so.. i´ve done some updates on the tower too, but I will post them next week. It´s weekend now. And the updates on the tower was hardly visible, so I´ll show it next week. I just started the bridge 2 minutes ago, and heres what i´ve got... OOOh!! a basic bridge!! AWESOME! oh well.. weekend. More updates next week. Please comment :D

-thondal-

[TheSoracle]

Nice job on the mega-building. But i can tell by the amount of detail thondal, that bridge must have been freaking impossible to model XD

- Steven

[thondal]

Yeah I know.. can't believe I made it that far :P
Well, more updates sometime tomorrow... i hope.. have to go to the dentis, and then fix some computers at work, but hopefully i'll be back in my office and able to do some work on the bridge at least... currently working on some ideas on what to do on the mega.

-thondal-

[Lua]

good luck dude! can't wait to see what you come up with!

[thondal]

Ok, so i´ve been a bit sick lately, but came up with a new concept. The concept of the new mega was made with "old" pencil and paper, and i don´t have a scanner, so just bear with me. But some updates might come tonight. (gmt +1)

-thondal-

[thondal]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1165360967_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1165360967_large.jpg)

Ok, might not make much sense yet, but I have an idea and a sketch. So please just bear with me. Next update soon.

-thondal-

[thondal]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1165362957_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1165362957_large.jpg)

Ok. So a little update before i go to bed. A bit more added. And one smooth version and one not smooth. Any Comments?

-thondal-

[taavi]

Go, go, go :)
Right now it's a bit hard to comment-more stuff pliiz ;)
Is it a base of the tower?

[thondal]

No....... actually, that is the whole tower. Well, missing a lot of details, because i'm going to be modeling some parts and then duplicate them. but, i'm hoping that it will look better soon. Going to be doing some updates now very soon. Stay tuned :P

-thondal-

[thondal]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1165435077_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1165435077_large.jpg)

Ok. So here is the next update. Hope this one is explaining a bit more of my concept of the scyscraper.

-thondal-

[taavi]

Ok, ill stay tuned :)
Maybe You should add more sharpened edges...?

[thondal]

I´m hoping to get some more detail very soon, and some sharper edges will come. But time will show. I will make a render very soon. Going to be adding some simple material so that it looks a bit better. But any advice, just come with them. I´m not a very skilled 3d artis, but i´m doing my best.
Thanks for all the comments :D :P

-thondal-

[thondal]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1165696815_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1165696815_large.jpg)

OK. That didn't really turn out the way I wantet it to, so I did a bit more drawing, and came up with a concept that was a bit more simple to follow, and that still would "get the job done".
So here is the firs picture of the new mega. Hope you like it. More will come later tonight.

-thondal-

[thondal]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1165701228_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1165701228_large.jpg)

ok. Here's another update.
will be all for tonight.

-thondal-

[TheSoracle]

just a quick reply.

What is the first thing that comes to mind viewing your latest update?

[johnnymaster]

"What is the first thing that comes to mind viewing your latest update?"

:twisted:

[TheSoracle]

XD. Sorry johnnymaster, but by the thumbnail, i had no idea what to expect.

[johnnymaster]

hahaha, no...you speaks out what i'm thinking;)

ahem...but thondal my friend, nevertheless we are curious to see how this huge thing will process further:D

[thondal]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1166182699_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1166182699_large.jpg)

Ok, so after getting a few remarks on what my mega looked like, I figured out a few changes to make it look a bit better... so here the remake is. ;)

More updates might come later today, or the next week.

-thondal-

[thondal]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1166282667_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1166282667_large.jpg)

ok... so this is my latest update. Any comment.

-thondal-

[thondal]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1166390123_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1166390123_large.jpg)

Ok. So I feel i´m done with the basic mesh of my mega, and I think it was about time. I will now concentrate on making the rest of the small buildings and some of the enviorment. More updates tomorrow :D

-thondal-

[thondal]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1166431441_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1166431441_large.jpg)

Ok.. just did a little "glass" test on top of my mega. Should i fix something with it? I´m going to be adding a lot of small details I guess, but not untill later, because now, i´m just working to put my scene together...

-thondal-

[thondal]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1166433228_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1166433228_large.jpg)

Just a little update. This is the "start" of the plasma tube that is giving light and stuff in alexandria and almost the rest of the stone.

-thondal-

[thondal]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1166434318_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1166434318_large.jpg)

Here is a little update on the bridge that i started on. Remade the whole bridge.. (not that it was much to remake, but still :P )

Any comments or crits?

-thondal-

[thondal]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1166453438_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1166453438_large.jpg)

So.. this is the result of me trying to make the plasmatube :P

Not to fancy, but it will hold for now...

-thondal-

[thondal]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1166555860_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1166555860_large.jpg)

Ok. Just did a quick set up on how I want the scene to look like when i´m done. I reckon I´m going to be doing a few changes,but i think i have somewhat of an idea on what it´s supposed to look like..(in my head at least). + I´m closing in on an idea on what i´m going to be doing for my 3-8 second render, though nothing too fancy.

-thondal-

[thondal]

Ok.. so right now i´m rendering a fluid test for the ocean (need it as part of my 3-8sec rend), will be posting a low poly, and perhaps a high poly.. depending on how long it takes.


-thondal-

[arturro]

Hi there!
Quite nice project here. I like the turkish/arabic mood of the nuildings.
good luck!

[thondal]

Finaly! Here´s the fluid simulation test... hope it works..

FLUIDSIMULATIONVIDEO (http://s32.photobucket.com/albums/d19/thondal/?action=view&current=fluidtest0001_1000.flv)


-thondal-

[thondal]

Well, thought i check in after a few days... and what do i discover?? THE VIDEO DOESNT WORK!! DOH!

So... i just thought i´d do another test, but it turned out better then i had hoped, and so... here is the result. I managed to make the water look somewhat right. But just keep in mind, the motion of the water is not final... actually nothing in this clip is final, not the buildings, camera angle, the lack of fog etc is final....

HERE (http://s32.photobucket.com/albums/d19/thondal/?action=view&current=fluidtest.flv) is the link btw (and it works =) )

COMMENTS! ! !

-thondal-

[thondal]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1167246222_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1167246222_large.jpg)

yikes... little time left...

just woke up today and saw that only 19 days left, and I don´t have the time to work on this project more that a week if im lucky, so doing the best i can. Still missing a lot of buildings, some lighting, and a proper grassland...



-thondal-

[TheSoracle]

Quick reply, not really critique. THAT CHOCOLATE IS UGLY!!! XD

Just kidding Simen.....(not really).

You might want to change up the color of whatever that is :D.

Great work so far! Keep at it.

- Steven

[thondal]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1168527842_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/12310/12310_1168527842_large.jpg)

Ok... fixed the chocolate stone thingy.. and tried to get a more grey stone feeling over it.

-thondal-

[chaitanyak]

looks like you have quite a bit to finish dude! best of luck! :thumbsup:

[thondal]

Well, beeing my first real big challenge this prooved to be too big for me. I had a lot to do while this contest was going on. But it was fun, and I will try to do something to at least send in a final image, allthough it won't be looking very good.
Oh well. Good luck to everyone else.


-thondal-

[cowdude]

That's too bad. You were making some pretty good progress.

BTW, you did some awsome stuff with grass in the beginnining of the thread, could you please explain how youu did it?

[thondal]

Grass = Plane, subdivide, add particles, change number of particles to some more than standard, change the Strands properties in the material panel to something more like grass form. And then a dirt texture.

That was somewhat the short version. If it didn´t help you, then sorry, and say it once more and i´ll find the tutorial for you.

OH well.. off to bed.


-thondal-

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