any updates?

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i've done some more work on textures for the office scene, though don't really have anything to show at the moment. I was adding yet more hair to the fly, but decided to take a break so i could get stuck into my scary baby head texturing... i'll post an update soon.

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have been working on these two keyboards the last couple of days.

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nice, how did u texture the keys? just one by one im guessing?


looks great!:attn:

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yeah - they were a bit of a headache!

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great progress on the fly arran, its really starting to get that realistic effect - especially with the facing ratio shader technique. I didnt know what it was so a quick google came up with this for anyone who doesnt know:
https://stevenchan.us/publications/mayafacingratio

and a tutorial on how to get the same effect with a candle flame:
https://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/tutorials/candle.html

right, back to your progress arran (just thought those links might be useful for people to know about it)

The keyboards have come out really nice - is that standard lighting, mental ray or some other funky renderer?

Si

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thanks for the tutorials Si yeah, i used the steven chan one when i did the fly. here's another:

https://www.spafi.org/index.php?optio...=468&Itemid=29

the keyboard render is a mental ray with some final gather and an occlusion composited on top. I still want to add some dust to the casing and also a spec map.

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arran3D

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That is excellent Arran, great job on the keyboards.

this is looking pretty pimp, arran

any chance we can see the shading network of the fly, I still feel like it's missing the particular way light reacts to it. Take a look at some car paint shaders and see what they're doing differently, because the principals are pretty similar.

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hey - thanks a lot minstrel and funky bunnies.

yeah - definitely agree that the fly shader needs some more work - i decided to take a break from it though as it was making my head hurt.

I'm stuck at work at work at the moment, so i'll post up the shading network in the next couple of days.

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hey man nice keyboards really like it, i did it one time and i got annoyed with applying the different textures to every single key.

btw next time im doing keys, i thing im going to do a projection of a keys created in PS on the keys, and then i think it is a little faster. dont know

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Originally posted by AikoWorld

btw next time im doing keys, i thing im going to do a projection of a keys created in PS on the keys, and then i think it is a little faster. dont know

Originally Posted by

yea i was thinking the same thing.

Can we see a close up wire?

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hey - thanks for the great responses.

ok, here's my shading network for the fly's body. at the moment it's a blinn with a layered texture plugged into the color. on the bottom of the layered texture is my color map and on the top is a blue ramp with a black to white ramp connected to the alpha. they both have a sampler info node connected to the facing ratio and the v coordinate... er.. does that make sense? not sure if i understand it...:blush:

that's just the body - i have separate shaders for the head, hair and wings.

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if i understand it correctly your samplerinfo is created for the edges of you geometry creating like a reversed occlusion, but instead of a static collor you can add an image to it
Or a more relevant file is a ramp.


Well i dont know if thats what you tried to create.

Cool shading network!

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here's a close up of the keyboard - wasn't sure what area you wanted to see up close. yeah - a projection might work for the keys, though i guess it might be a bit of a headache lining them up. uv mapping the keys actually wasn't that bad - you do one for each type of key and then it's just a case of transferring the uvs and moving them into a separate space. painting the textures took a while, but it was mindless work so not that bad.

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