i followed everything exactly yet i still reckon mine can do abit of improvement, tell me what needs to be done. c & c most welcome
thanks, cheers ... marlon
Maya for 3D Printing - Rapid Prototyping
In this course we're going to look at something a little different, creating technically accurate 3D printed parts.
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i followed everything exactly yet i still reckon mine can do abit of improvement, tell me what needs to be done. c & c most welcome
thanks, cheers ... marlon
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i dont know why this render was soo dark from the other
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Well would you believe this was actually the second tute I ever did that didn't come with Maya, the first was the tennisball by christerb.
I found that the kitchen probe hdr image was very bright in spots and has quite a yellow cast to it. My first approach was to just go outside and take a couple of photos. They were a bit of a non-event, so I photographed some chrome. Still no chop.
In the end, I just used the image of the iffizi gallery and found the tones to be much more to my liking. It's rather low in res, so not amazingly clear in the background but it does the job.
It's been a long while since I did this one Marlon, but from meory it was just a matter of playing with the render settings.
Can't rember them all at the moment, and it's now 5:30am, so I'm gone after I post this. I'll have a look at the settings in the morning for ya mate, that is if you want em.
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Flep: That's really cool. What materials did you use for the pen?
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The pen was just something nice and simple to get a feel for caustics and the rest of it. I'm sure I've still got the refraction index wrong for the plastic - I'm sure that's one of the things that make these pens stand apat from imitations, and that gives it the look that earned it the name Crystal..
The materials are all really simple.
The Ball is a phonge, the brass bit is too. The blue plastic that holds the nib assembly as well as the ink are both phongs. While the inktube and the case are a dialetric_material.
Not exactly photo quality, but I did manage to trick the only person I showed it to, when shown an a 40 inch tv screen. Ha ha. Really gotta spend more time on the dialetric material and the rendering settings though.
Here, I've included the whole scene file for the biro. .mb and .ma for anyone using a version under 7.0 - standard thing, just change the first couple of lines at the top of the file that mention Maya 7.0..
Simon.