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# 16 08-01-2003 , 08:29 PM

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grass was done in paint effects, well the long grass is, and the grass on the nurbs plain is a shader network.

P.S. Composition is great, nearly photorealistic. I had to look twice

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# 17 09-01-2003 , 06:55 AM

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wow!!!! looks really great! what an environment and some good textures can do...

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# 18 09-01-2003 , 09:30 AM

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For a more realistic sepia-tone image add noise to the image....in Photoshop to be found under *translate*..Filters-> Noise-> Add Noise (Monochrome).... and maybe the stone in Front needs some tweaking....and how 'bout DOF ?

A Blurry Front (Hides some texturing failures of the stone),and a sharp background ??

Only Suggestions......looks great !!

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Something like that...just a fast Photoshop-work...hope you don't mind... ;O)

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# 20 09-01-2003 , 05:18 PM

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Yeah of course I dont mind. user added image

For my taste there is too much grain on the image but I see what you're trying to show. Unfortunatley I'm going to have to probably leave it for now as I am snowed under with stuff to do and this was only supposed to be a quick project to tide me over until my next coursework. I mite play around in photoshop later and see what I can do.

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# 21 10-01-2003 , 12:56 PM

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YEah, cool work! You may want to check the cables again..as a previous post said..they must be straight.

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# 22 10-01-2003 , 01:13 PM

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How the hell did you do the telephones wires and tension cables anyway? Are the NURBS curves rendered as lines? I haven't got a clue how to do these... user added image

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# 23 10-01-2003 , 02:02 PM

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as a previous post said..they must be straight.

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Yeah I know I said in my reply to that one that it's a deliberate "mistake". The tower is old and decrepid and probably about to fall over so it's quite possible that it would have loose cables. But again I take you point :banana

The wires were done using Undseth's excellent comments in the "How you did it" section: https://forum.simplymaya.com/member.p...fo&userid=1281

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# 24 18-01-2003 , 12:29 AM

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wow the final looks great user added image

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# 25 18-01-2003 , 01:01 AM

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thanks i learnt loads on doing this project! Glad you liked it

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# 26 11-02-2003 , 12:30 PM

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re water tower..

Hi Alan,

Try maybe rendering in layers and compositing them back togother in a compositing program, ie. (shake, after effects, Maya fusion) and use the z depth channel to do depth of field in post also.

I also do heaps of colour correction in post as I can tweek the colours/shadows in real time to my liking.

Again, as others have said, great stuff!!!!!

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# 27 11-02-2003 , 12:36 PM

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wow thought this thread was dead long time ago.

Thanks for the crit Jim it was put together with Shake. But because it's been added to the gallery already I can't be bothered to change anything about it! user added image