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Brucie Rosch
04-18-2003, 02:24 PM
Here's another view of the trains (more close up), this time with Booles endpiece cuts. I sent a request to Maxon for a bevel edge option, BTW. For this image I faked in a subtle bevel in Photoshop. The edge was too complex for a good bevel to work. (I could've kept tweaking the cutting piece to make it simpler, but sometimes you just have to move on!)

Feedback is welcome!! :)

image link (http://www.albany.net/~brucie/pages/3D9.html)

I had an odd thing happen with the SLA wood texture (Banji? Banzi? I never remember which is glass, which is wood:rolleyes: ) In the editor window renders, the wood ring pattern showed up strong on the side edge of the track. On the final render it was completely different (almost non-existant). I wanted it to be subtle, as Brio tracks wood rings and grain are very very subdued, but I wanted more than I got.
ThirdEye
04-18-2003, 02:56 PM
Great work, i love that fresnel fx :love:
squidinc
04-18-2003, 05:19 PM
hehe cool :)
I used to have a train like that back when I was a drooling scream factory
Wilson-3d
04-18-2003, 05:42 PM
Lookin good Brucie!
JIII
04-18-2003, 05:42 PM
nice Pic I also remember the joys of Brio.
bjotto
04-18-2003, 06:48 PM
I also had a train like that, I think it was a year back:surprised
AdamT
04-18-2003, 06:55 PM
Nice one Brucie!

I can't remember if I had a train like that. I can barely remember being a child! :)
Brucie Rosch
04-18-2003, 06:55 PM
I think I can safely say that I struck the nostalgia nerve :)

thanks for all the nice comments!
Brucie Rosch
04-18-2003, 07:01 PM
I can barely remember being a child!

I'm planning on growing into a mature adult someday <sigh> Too bad I'm nearly 50 <gasp>

Seriously, this 3D stuff makes me feel like a kid again. And I always wanted a Brio train, and now I've got one!
Caravaggio
04-18-2003, 09:40 PM
*Feels strange he has never seen a train like this before in his life*

So you made one piece and then used it to cut out the end of the next? How many vertical polys are there to the tracks?
randyrives
04-18-2003, 10:22 PM
Nice train! Very clean looking image.

I didn't have a train like this when I was a kid. There were 15 of us, and we had to work in the cotton fields after school to help get enough money for food and clothes. We also had to walk 5 miles uphill everyday to school. (Both ways) the only games we would play was wrestling over that last fried chicken wing at the supper table. :rolleyes:

Have a great weekend. Going back home to Alabama for the weekend.
Brucie Rosch
04-18-2003, 11:40 PM
How many vertical polys are there to the tracks?

er, um, I'll have to go count and post later:)

randyrives: LOL !

Caravaggio: do a google for Brio trains and you'll get a zillion returns. They have some pretty nifty (and pricey) sets available with bridges, overpasses, crossings and so on.

Next task: tackle an overpass or bridge! I guess it's a job for SweepNURBS, but I've always had trouble getting Sweep to obey my wishes:rolleyes:
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