what kind of rendering are you going to play with arran, standard? mental ray? other?

hope you have fun working on the texturing - definitely a good idea to get lots modelled and then concentrate on that bit

Si

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Nice, very clean and realistic.
Howd'ya do the mesh thing on the fan?

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XtremeAMX: thanks mate!

marlonjohn: cheers! not sure which bit you mean though - it's based on a corner of my office at work, so I did measure, but I'll check the height.

t1ck135: probably mental ray. yeah - i tend to really like modelling and then lose interest when I get to texturing, so this time i'm going to try to stick with it.

Some Guy: easy. I just drew a curve for the profile. then extruded a circle for one wire. Moved the pivot and duplicated 97 or so more in a circle for the front cage and then duplicated some more for the back. ha ha nice avatar - kind of reminds me of cookie monster at the end.

no update just yet. I started texturing but now my laptop is giving me some problems... of course. :headbang:

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arran3D

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hello - bit of an update - I've been working on textures - here's a shot of the fan - just a color map so far. I've added a chrome shader to the wire cage - but i'm a bit unsure of how to add some rust and dirty up - a layered texture perhaps...?

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and here's a view of the scene so far. the telephone still needs a lot of work. also I'm having some problems with the shadows which look kind of spotty - i'm using mental ray area lights at the moment...

any comments / crit / help?

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It looks realy good. I think with the shadows you need to turn The amount of rays up or the scattering down in the shadows options, i dont have Maya Up.

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Nice going man!

Maybe drop the reflectivness of the chrome on the fan as touch

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thanks gster and some guy.

I tried turning down the reflectivity and that helped. as you can see in this pic the chrome bits are pretty messed up - i'm a bit unsure of how to approach them.

ha ha - that macGuyver quote cracked me up...

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here's an update on the phone - still need to add a spec map, sort out that bit on the receiver, and add the cord, but it's getting there.

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very impressive.., could you add and colour /noise to the ambient colour channel to dirty it.., thats the quick way.., isnt it??
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hmm - i'm not sure - i must admit I've been a bit confused about the ambient color channel - i'll give it a go.

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arran3D

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saw it in a tut dude.., good luck.., did it in my WIP.., seemed to work but still needs tweaking though

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looking nice arran, the fan especially so far
what objects are next or are you concentrating on the texturing for a while?

Si

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Use the specular color map to add dirt...that usually works.