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MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 14 Jan 2011, 10:20

This toaster is still WIP.

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 14 Jan 2011, 13:31

Little update

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 14 Jan 2011, 14:26

And here it is, the Cylon Centurion from Battlestar Galactica.

Modeled and posed in trueSpace, rendered in Kerkythea.
And yes, I realize I need to work a bit on my rendering skills.

marcel · Post by **marcel** » 14 Jan 2011, 16:01

Good model. If you take off the hipbone and the black volume inside, it could be an endoskeleton for a man. For an other model.

Buzz · Post by **Buzz** » 14 Jan 2011, 21:42

Great model Mikom, but you already pointed out you need to focus on render skills.
Well, with your permission, I brightened your render a bit and out of the dark this great Cylon Centurion model pops up.

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 15 Jan 2011, 02:49

Buzz wrote:Great model Mikom, but you already pointed out you need to focus on render skills.
Well, with your permission, I brightened your render a bit and out of the dark this great Cylon Centurion model pops up.

Thank you for showing me

Rendering in Kerkythea is a bit different from trueSpace, on my next render, I'll start working more with lights. This one was rendered with the standard lights.

And good one Marcel

I'll keep that in mind for when I make a real character model.

nigec · Post by **nigec** » 15 Jan 2011, 18:39

HDRI's are your best friend with standalone renderers

a good source is http://www.hdrlabs.com/sibl/archive.html"

in KT open the sun and sky options, click on the "already have sun/sky (may say something slightly different)
select spherical map in the dropdown and click the image to browse for the hdri
hdrilabs split there hdri's use the ref one

fantastic model mate

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 16 Jan 2011, 04:47

Thank you Nigec

Just curious, do I need to download that HDRI-plugin for Kerkythea or does it already have HDRI? About the sky-options, yes I think that is pretty much how it looks in Kerkythea as well. I think I saw that a while back when I was testing out some features.

nigec · Post by **nigec** » 16 Jan 2011, 10:58

I never used a plugin, unless it allows you to add environment, reflection and backgrounds? I couldn't find the plugin

if you use 3 images you can use a very small hdri for environment, a huge background image and a average sized hdri for reflection/refraction, if you have a huge envo map it increases memory usage.. t kinda balances it all out

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 16 Jan 2011, 11:02

Ok, well, I'll have a look. Thanks

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 26 Sep 2011, 23:02

Looking back on some old models. One of them being my Cylon. I tried loads of complicated things with Kerkythea which was a terribly confusing program to use. However, I never really made a proper render in trueSpace, so that's what I've done now.

Here is a somewhat improved render of the Battlestar Galactica Cylon Centurion:

: Cylon Centurion

jamesmc · Post by **jamesmc** » 27 Sep 2011, 02:36

Looks way cool!

Been awhile since I thought about those guys.

bitkar · Post by **bitkar** » 27 Sep 2011, 07:46

that looks awesome... very nice shape, material, everything!

that combination of soft and hard edges came out great.

Breech Block · Post by **Breech Block** » 27 Sep 2011, 07:51

Very nice indeedy.

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 27 Sep 2011, 11:33

Thanks guys, I'm glad you like it! I felt kinda embarrassed that I never got Kekythea to work but I guess I'm just not that technical...

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