FXWars! OCEAN Challenge:10

#10

yesterday I rigged the SH-60. I did a VERY quick movie of the Seahawk and only spent about 10 minutes or so. It was a quick test for me and the rigged. I have 3 morphs, rotor blades up/down, tail up/down, and landing gear up/down, AND a separate control for the rear wheel to help in producing a takeoff/ landing.

I’m seriously thinking of using Backdrop Radiosity for the renders, but I think it’s going to take too long to render so I used Lightwave’s light “render” cheat, but I have to add a few more lights and up the AA passes.

Other than that… it’s really just for me…

http://fabmedia.no-ip.com/OceanFX/SH-60/hovertest_h264.mov

#11

I find it a little choppy and abrupt… you dont have any secondary motion or if you do its too quick…
The model is great tho and your rig seems to work quite well!

props! (no pun intended)

#12

I wholely (sp? too early) agree. Just a quick test. BTW how’s the weather in Montreal? It’s wet here in Vancouver (I’m about 1hr east in chilliwack).

#13

Its cloudy but nice!
we got over the weekend (-40 with wind)
haha

#14

hi that seahawk its a great model, youre doing amazing, good luck

best regards

#15

Here’s an LCS…

LCS 01
LCS 02
LCS 03
LCS 04
LCS 05
LCS 06

Again, rendered with Lightwave’s fake GI lighting trick.

#16

I was setting up the LCS and thought I would add all the lights. So I had to check to see if they work for a night time setting. PLEASE comment. I’m not all that great at lighting. They are just a quick render with Fprime.

LCS night test 01
LCS night test 02
LCS night test 03

I’ll be doing some quick water texturing and setups here over the next day or so.

BTW. It’s just a lighting setup with no GI.

#17

Wow, this is looking very sweet.

I see your using FPrime?

Are you going to animate the water in native LW or use something like Realflow?

#18

I have no idea how to use RealFlow. It’s all native LW and cloth simulation here. Hopefully I can make it work. It really comes down to the texturing, and particles of the water. I’m starting my tests today/tomorrow.

#19

Okay, I’ve done 3 test renders with Cloth Simulation and need some basic feedback on what looks the best or what I need to change.

You need Quicktime 7 as they are encoded H264.

wave test 1

wave test 2

wave test 3

1 and 3 may look the same, but they have different depths for the waves. Of course, the simulation will take place over a distance of 500 metres.

And just for fun, the night time scene with the SH-60…
Hover Test

#20

Hi, I’d love to see the clips, but all three pages crash instantly in my Firefox as well as Internet Explorer…

Anyone else have these problems, or is it just me…?

Cheers,

  • Jonas
#21

I liked 3 the best, seemed a better scale for a large ship

I had problems with crashing firefox and IE too, still haven`t seen the hover clip because of this

#22

Hmmmm, I assume that you are running QT 7 right? I’m not too sure about the browser thing, but I’ve encoded everything into a MP4 codec and have titled them appropriately, so…

wave test 1
wave test 2
wave test 3
wave test 4 - long without boat

And the Hover Test

#23

These are the last 2 tests for the bow wake. They are 2 slightly different items, but I think that this is it. Give your opinions.

Sea Test 05
Seat Test 06

#24

That’s great, nice wace there! :thumbsup:

Cheers,

  • Jonas

BTW: yes, I do have QT7, and the new clips work just fine. :wink:

#25

Quick question, does anybody know of some mpg resources of a helicopter flying over water? I want to see how the air and water is affected.

#26

try artbeats.com
masterfile.com
getty.com
or maybe even the coast guard website!

#27

Thanks! I spent some 5 hours last night trying to find stuff. WOW… all that for a competition that doesn’t pay… what a challenge. OH, I found out that I have a softbody calculation of 339, 352 polygons. All for 500 metres of mesh. Thank god I’m smart enough to know that I can run the boat a couple of times through the same area without the viewer knowing that it’s the same water.

I wonder how long it will take to calculate on the Dual G4 867 MHz system…

#28

I have to say that I have to apologize for this, but I’m going to be unable to finish my entry for this contest. I’ve been having some major issues with a data file for the water wake. I’ve been fighting with it for over 1.5 weeks.

HOWEVER, I will start a thread that will kick off where this one is being left off.

My apologies. I was looking forward to completing this.

#29

To all

Dont forget to post it on the voting thread when you are done.

FXWARS: THE OCEAN: Post your Entry!

-R