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cant give any pointers until we see where you are going with this, its too early to say anything but.., wow!
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I should clarify that it is my first non-tutorial project. I did the haunted house tutorial from SM and it got me started and so now I've decided to take on a real project where I have to do my own problem solving and don't have my hand held throughout the project.
I do plan on attempting the enviroment as well, but not quite sure how I'm going to go about it. I'll start with the ground and the rock and go from there.
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although something with that much greenary may not have been the best project to start with. hehe never mind
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There is a lot of geometry in there, hard to see anything in the wireframe. Modelling each shingle was the only method I could think of. It is looking the way I intended it to look so I suppose that is the only thing that matters as it is only going to be a still shot. I can't think of any other methods where I might have be able to model with this amount of detail and have a lower poly count, there may be many ways I'm unaware of.
Note: Since I had originally planned to have this as a still shot from the same angle as the reference picture, I haven't modelled the shingles on the non-visible section of the roof. A simple copy-paste will fix that if I am in need of even more shingles.
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The boulder is proving to be challenging as I try and figure out which method makes the most realistic looking boulder. Currently I used a nurbs sphere to shape it then converted it to a polygon and fine tuned it. Still not happy with it, but would like to fix this shadow problem in the meantime.
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play with spot lights at strategic places, one here and there as needed, they can be as big or small as you want. use spot lights or area lights or your render times will kill you (and the computer).
group a dozen spotlights together all with differant intensities getting less from the centre light out to the edge lights, you will get a nice shadow effect that way.
use very very dark blue until it looks black in the 'shadows ' settings to 'simulate' shadows in day light. Study real light, from a book and from the things around you.
yes, a good scene can be ruined by bad lighting and a bad scene can look OK with good lighting. (so I hear
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