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Figured I had better post it while it was still a WIP.
Still left to model: the film crank handle.
Dunno what came over me, I've got a real one sitting on display and had been meaning to model it for a long time.
Guess today was the day.

tS 7.6/ Model/ Lightworks render.

Awesome!

Looks great!

Now all you need is a spaceship scene where Aliens abducted some poor photographer and all that is left is his camera along with some old canvas shoes.

Or, maybe not.

Spacekdet is modeling something! That's a rare treat now days.

Looks great. Good textures.

jamesmc wrote:all that is left is his camera

Then they develop his film and the strange mysterious images ...

The only memories from the Spacekdet keg party are on this film...

More?

Bogged down trying to get fancy with the embossed text on the film crank.
Figures, it's the last part. Will probably end up faking it with a tex map.

Then I'll be damned if reality didn't intrude with it's real world problems.
Reality...always holding up progress.

ok, I lied.
Modeling the text after all; tried it with a displacement map and it worked, but it was rough.

Whew. Almost perfect.
Goofed it up a little with the fillet tool, but it won't be noticeable at the planned render distances.
Tools used on the crank: draw curve, mirror, boolean, add edges, macrosweep, fillet, point edit

The lack of perfection is disturbing me.
Criss-cross geometry caused by macrosweep and aggravated by a bad fillet.
Achieved failure trying to fix it, I have!
Arrghin Flarrgin!

Looking good.
Yep, sometimes you just have to get rid of the bad geometry and try again.

Finally all loaded into Workspace and re-textured.
tS 7.6; VRAY render.

I sure miss Lightworks' layered textures.

Thumps up!

I would like to see more smudge/wear on the handle, but that's just me.

Agreed.

Toned down the metal a bit.
Still not quite balanced out yet.
Poking thru the settings in the existing VRay Materials Library to see how they did it.
The rivets are still too 'light' and the black metal is too 'dark'.

spacekdet wrote:I sure miss Lightworks' layered textures.

Then use model side. What other renderers do have texture layers?

Good work except the film crank looks like plastic to me.

I'll figure out a layered system oneday for Workspace.. oneday.. But I wish it was simple. It must be possible! And this looks incredible btw, very cool textures you have going on!

Here's the real one: Looks more tarnished in the photo than it does in reality.

I'm liking the speed & GI of VRay, so I'm sticking to Workspace for now.
Too afraid to cross back over the bridge once I start texturing.
It's the usual; a few hours to model, a few days to texture.

poke, poke.



Getting closer. The metal may be too dark now. Did I say I miss Lightworks?

Finis wrote:The realistic render stuff gets boring.

..Wait, what?

Imma take a picture of my picture of my camera taking a picture of a picture.

So here it is all filtered up.

But is it a render of your renderer rendering a render of a renderer? The film crank now looks like artistic plastic. Ok, it looked better in the very dark realistic picture before.

OK, I think it's time to stick a fork in this one.
It's starting to feel like I'm polishing a turd.

It's good enough for who it's for.

"Polishing a turd" Ha, ha!

No turd there. Great picture! I like the wear on the handle. The whole picture looks dark to me but we all have our screens adjusted differently.

Way too dark of a poopie here also. What I can make of it is very good.

I guess my monitor is cranked up to 'ludicrous' because I'm sitting in a bright room.
Will have to look into getting it calibrated.

I lied again.
Maybe it's not done after all.



Lighter and brighter.

The plastic looking part looks like metal now. A spring! You have the details in there.

Very pretty!

Pretty good spacekdet. The texture and handle look quite good now.