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# 46 01-06-2005 , 09:46 PM

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I made a basic texture map in photoshop. still have to paint in special areas like fins, mouth and the fishing rod.

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# 47 01-06-2005 , 09:50 PM

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almost there

coming together pretty well Falott, abit to snakey for me, but it is a start.

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# 48 05-06-2005 , 08:02 AM

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I'm pretty much sure my fishproject will go down by creating a texture. here is another attempt. everything is done in photoshop, but I can´t figure out how to create a fishi like skin.

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# 49 05-06-2005 , 10:15 AM

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you need to look at fish reference. Go to the supermarket and buy a fish and look at it (scan it in if you can!!!!) then use that to make a proper texture. at the moment it just looks too random and thrown together without using any reference.

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# 50 05-06-2005 , 11:51 AM

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:headbang: I go buy a fish right tomorrow in the morning.
thx Alan

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# 51 05-06-2005 , 09:44 PM

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Man I went fishing and caught a fish then photographed the crap out of it. The only problem being I'm doing a Brown Trout and I only managed to catch 2 Rainbows :headbang:

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This site may give you some inspiration: https://www.vthrc.uq.edu.au/ecovis/JustinsSlides1.html

There's around 200 close up shots of various fish skins.

Hope that helps some.
I like the reddish version best so far. Increase the spec to make it shine more perhaps.

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# 53 06-06-2005 , 05:17 AM

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looking good

Hi Falott, just wanted to say your fish is looking really good.

Vision Dive also has some neat pictures that might help you out.

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# 54 06-06-2005 , 08:19 AM

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wohooo! thx for fast help buddies. I searched the net for hours and didn´t find even one pleasurable fishPic. I´ll check all very soon. now I have to quit my old job and get myself into one authorized education center for learning maya.

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# 55 26-06-2005 , 10:58 PM

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I forced this project to be finished. Texturing was very timeconsuming and I did a real bad job on lightning. I wanted to do some kind of dirt render for emulating swimming particles but didn´t figure out how and light fog made the picture more ugly then the fish actually is. guess I´ll post this pic in the final section to show the whole fish but I think I´ll try some more dramatic shots later.

well this is the finished one.

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# 56 26-06-2005 , 11:07 PM

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a close-up.

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# 57 27-06-2005 , 10:33 AM

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and a wireframe

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# 58 27-06-2005 , 02:29 PM

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Whoa, the wireframe shot is freaky. It looks awesome like that. What did you use to get a wireframe shot? Giving me ideas user added image

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# 59 27-06-2005 , 03:16 PM

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that´s very easy to do. UVmap the geometry and take care of the UVs not overlapping each other. create a snapshot and map the file into the color channel - maya asigns the alpha channel to transparency. I additionally connected the file to the specular channel. rendered with maya software. have fun with it!

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