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Well I don't dedicate the whole time to it, maybe the UV-ing will take longer to learn though, so far I've learned how to control how the images will look on the surface of a cube (the test I've did in some reflection scene where I had to place the face of a hedgehog on a side of the cube so that it doesn't look stretched out).I agree with the whole idea of taking your time. I would dedicate a month to certain things in the pipeline. Whether it be UVing, texturing, rigging, or even just simple fire and smoke creation. The last thing I am tackling is modeling. At this point I understand quite a bit but tend to forget things very easily. Just wish my peasize brain could hold it all perfectly for me to call upon that tiny button I need to remember to click.
I forget a lot of things too, once I stumble upon something cool and use it and then few days later I'm asking: "Where was that thing again?" such as the hotkey editor and the render environment, I needed to be reminded where those were.
I wonder which one will be the hardest. Maybe modeling, cause it seems like models need to be made so that certain things will work well with it. (rigging, deformation, textures, hair, clothes...). So maybe I'll just dedicate more time to modeling since it seems to be the hardest. But I still do random experiments every now and then with non-related stuff. Such as the domino experiment. Worked when done with normal cubes, failed when I finally made the dominoes look realistic.
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Thank you, that's very useful.There's a Find Menu search option in the help menu. It's useful if you can remember at least one word in the tool... e.g. search *extrude*
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So I'll be adding the whole solar system there. O.o
(From what I've heard, the sun's actually white if seen from outer space, but not 100% sure of this).
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hmmm
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It's not even a true light, it's a glow effect. Should I make it yellowish green instead?The notion that the sun is going to be completely white bright is gonna be a little off. The most micro of examples I can give is that of never using a absolute white light in your scenes. It just doesn't exist in nature. So whether you are mimicing a household lamp or the sun you are going to want to tweak the curves a little. The problem lies in that the sun will only appear to be that way after it is close to death and considered a white dwarf and compression takes hold prior to it exploding which greatens the intensity of the light due to the severe effects of gravity. Our sun will never be a black hole like other suns due to the mass not being great enough and therefore will only produce fusion based reactions unlike supernovas which create fission based reactions to gives us more complex elements like (gold, silver, and platinum). When the sun creates light it is simply through the fusion of two hydrogen atoms, or numerous ones up the periodic chain until iron is produced. You know helium, carbon, yada yada yada. So in essence the sun is just a nuclear weapon, but much bigger. You will always have expansion and decay. More than anything I believe that the "maps" on Earth and the atmosphere shell you have to put over it are what sell these shots. Also the environment needs to be riddled with cosmic dust and particles. Gotta love yourself a good lens flare to boot as well...
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Also, is this Earth atmosphere good enough? I didn't like the way the bump maps looked over Earth since the planet will be mostly filmed from the distance anyway. Same with moon and what else I'll add.
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Got Venus down so far and its thick atmosphere.
Mercury too.
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And then I'll add it next to Mars.
This is pretty nice since it gets me used to the UV editor.
Done with phobos. Poor little thing lol....
Can't finish Deimos today. Oh well... time to shut down. Good night.
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One thing might be a problem though: How to make that shadow of the ring disappear? I don't know if the ring emits a shadow in reality.
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After comparing methods of how to make an ear, I have decided to do it the way that Miss_Nova suggested. So thanks Jay and Miss_Nova. It works way easier on this model I'm doing than the other tutorial which requires making extra edges for it to work on my mesh.
Currently shaping the start of the ear.
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