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# 136 30-11-2007 , 12:29 AM
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Textured the street and now need to work on all those buildings and sort the textures for them.
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Any ideas as to what is causing this.

// Error: (Mayatomr) : unexpected internal exception during scene cleanup, please report
 
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# 138 30-11-2007 , 11:49 AM
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er...sounds like there was an internal exception during scene cleanup, unexpectedly...

hard to say without know more, what version (maya) are you using?

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# 139 30-11-2007 , 01:42 PM
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yeah, hard to say from that one line. Try running render diagnostics. The mr connection can be finicky sometimes.
 
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Small update. Does anyone have any tips for the lighting regarding the street lights. Cannot get the bike to render in mental ray so I will probably render it separate in the software render and composite it in after effects.

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Does anyone have or know of any good sites where I can find some good high res shots of cityscapes and skyscrapers at night. I have tried google for images but can't really find anything decent.

Any help is much appreciated.
 
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Hey,

www.pbase.com can be good for finding photos but most of them are copyrighted.

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# 143 28-12-2007 , 08:48 PM
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Originally posted by leonlabyk
Small update. Does anyone have any tips for the lighting regarding the street lights. Cannot get the bike to render in mental ray so I will probably render it separate in the software render and composite it in after effects.

Cheers Leon

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You might use point lights instead of glowing effects.
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# 144 28-12-2007 , 10:25 PM
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i had that problem with mental ray once, in the end i found out it was a dodgey mesh that mental ray didnt like. i think it stemed from a boolean operation that went wrong.
just thought that might help

looking very nice btw!
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# 145 30-01-2009 , 03:11 PM
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Gonna try and do a fully texture version as well as toon shaded. Need to fix the arm poking out of the sleeve and will then try to set up a decent rig.
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# 146 05-02-2009 , 06:43 PM
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Finally got Kaneda rigged. Have re-started on Tetsuo as I want to get the proportions better. Hopefully I get get him rigged and set up soon as I will then be able to try and get some animation together.

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# 147 07-02-2009 , 03:10 PM
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Tetsuo is finally up and rigged as well. Going to get him some gloves as well, I may do another version of him with the crazy arm, gray shirt and red cape with spikey hair. I am going to get the Joker set up 1st though. Hope to get this project ready to animate very soon as it was my 1st attempt at 3d some 3 years ago and is now finally starting to look as I intended.

Thanks and crits are welcome as always,

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I think you should model the hair and toon shade it... it looks a little odd, and slightly balding user added image
 
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I know what you mean hammer.horror but I am doing it this way so it will move freely when the characters are animated. I will also increase the hair count for the final renders and will be rendering it as a seperate pass so I will be able to improve the quality of it when I comp it together which will enable me to get rid of any thin areas. Thanks for the crit though and I will keep it in mind if things are looking funky once I begin animating.

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Got the Joker set up but am having some problems with the rig and when I move him his body is coming out of his shirt. Not sure if I am going to be able to fix it as I have been messing around with the weights for the past 2 days and have had no success. Think what I should of done is model his whole body right down to his trousers and then simply set up his shirt as a wrap deformer. Here is a render of him in a tpose but will probably be unable to get a render of him on his bike unless I find the time to go back and remodel his lower body and re-do the rigging.
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