General Discussion Thread

#362

From a lighting point of view, it’s just as lighting spheres, so not too difficult. And not many variations are possible.

#363

a little tip of the veil perhaps…? :slight_smile:
I want to participate one of these days

#364

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-jeremy

#365

no, no. I sujected wanted a lighting lighting challenge which is out of this world and it would look look like like that its picture is taken from a telescope.

#366

Well if you think about it, that’s not really lighting, that’s all texture and compositing work. There’s no lighting in particular in outer space

Edit, meaning if you are looking at a nebula, not a planetary body which obviously does have 1 direct light

#367

Whats the best way to do moss? How did anyone do it for the under the boardwalk challenge,

and Second, JEREMY!

WHERE can I get a Renderman Teapot TOY???

#368

@doodlerboy: The moss would depend on your software and renderer. I would say some alpha mapping or maybe hair/fur particles would work, but again, it depends on your software and the kind of moss.

Also, this really isn’t the place for such questions. I would post it in the Lighting and Shaders or Texturing and Surfacing section.

As to the Renderman Teapot Toy, you ought to e-mail or PM Jeremy about that. You will most likely get a more direct and prompt response.

Cheers and God bless.

#369

I would hope that future lighting challenges require entries to include more information about how the rendering was achieved. It’s one thing to post pretty pictures, but I would like to see this be more educational. I don’t mean that the posts should be tutorials, but maybe take one interesting aspect of the render and explain some of the detail.

Just a thought.

#370

O man, i can hardly wait for next challenge. :bounce:

#371

I don’t know about requiring more information in order to post but some more information about images would be nice. Maybe even a thread for scene files.

#372

How about a war scene…

#373

This is a good idea! If each person had his/her own thread within the Challenge # thread, that would help organize the images. It does get kind of confusing when there are a lot of posts.

#374

I’m getting the next challenge together. I have sets and character models. Today I’m just cleaning up and posing, then working on exporting into different file formats. I’ll finish tonight after work, and the challenge will start.

I’m glad people are interested in Pixar teapots. I didn’t go to SIGGRAPH this year so I don’t have the latest one, but I see they are fetching good prices on e-bay, maybe I should sell some of my old ones? :thumbsup:

I don’t want to make any requirements that everyone has to be good at English in order to participate, or any requirements that everyone who tries posting an image has to pretend he knows what he’s doing or has a lot of technical information worth sharing. But even without rigid rules, it’s always appreciated when people help other posters and provide break-downs and such after they finish a project.

For the first challenge we tried having each person start a thread. I thought it would work better that way, but most people didn’t like it, so we switched to putting everyone in the same thread. I wish there were some half-way compromise, where threads could be hierarchical like on reddit or something, and perhaps images and comments could be voted on for which appeared near the top… but this forum approach is working pretty well.

If someone wants to model a war scene that sounds like a great idea.

We could do a space scene, too – we already did a robot in a spaceship, but maybe an astronaut floating outside a spaceship as the main subject?

-jeremy

#375

Ya man, a space scene would be really cool. Or maybe a terrain of another planet will test the lighter creativity. I just saying man, like an unknown planet will have different kind of sunlight or sky light for that matter. I think it will be really creative as every one have to think of their own little planet. And a war scene would be a great idea, it will be a real challenge to texture it. And Mr. Birn, I can’t wait for the next challenge.

#376

i have also got an idea of mixing both the war scene & the space scene into one. i mean a war scene in space ! between spaceships ! just like Star Wars ! Is it possible ???
& am also waiting very egarly for the next challenge !

#377

How about an old amusement park of some sort. You can get a fairest wheel, the tea cups ride…ect with some neon lights. Maybe the front entrance ticket booth, old incandescent light bulbs around the top. There is a lot that could be done with this.


Just a thought

#378

I think SageTim’s idea is a great one. A carnival/fair has a lot of potential.

Also, the war scene sounds cool, though I think it should be kept terrestrial.

Can’t wait to until the next challenge.

Cheers and God bless.

#379

I really like the idea of a space scene with a floating astronaut outside of space ship which could include texturing planets like a moon and earth in the back ground. That’s a really cool idea… There’s more than few high resolution NASA bump,spec,and diff maps available for free use.

Can’t wait for the new Shop Girls #20 challenge… Expecting it soon maybe?

#380

I like the carnival idea too!

#381

Lighting Challenge #20, The Shop Girls, is open with scenes ready to download. The deadline for the new challenge will be October 26, 2009. This is a challenging one, so get started early!

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=796537

-jeremy