Neoo's Work in Progress thread
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The problem is that you can't really have only starlight, because it's just not strong enough. If you lower the gain until the stars look good, your ship will be totally black.
You will need a sun if you want to have a good looking space scene.
You will need a sun if you want to have a good looking space scene.
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Yeah, this is what I noticed today. How would I go about creating a physically correct sun? My first thought was just to use a spherical blackbody emitter, but then again, there would be lots of wave lengthss that the sun gives off. Ultraviolet, infrated, etc. Plus, what if I actually want to have the sun in the frame. I would need a decent texture I suppose.Silmä wrote:The problem is that you can't really have only starlight, because it's just not strong enough. If you lower the gain until the stars look good, your ship will be totally black.
You will need a sun if you want to have a good looking space scene.
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Go outside on a sunny day and tell me what the texture on the sun looks like.neo0. wrote:Yeah, this is what I noticed today. How would I go about creating a physically correct sun? My first thought was just to use a spherical blackbody emitter, but then again, there would be lots of wave lengthss that the sun gives off. Ultraviolet, infrated, etc. Plus, what if I actually want to have the sun in the frame. I would need a decent texture I suppose.
A spherical black-body emitter at 6500K will do just fine.
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Nice, I'll try that.StompinTom wrote:Go outside on a sunny day and tell me what the texture on the sun looks like.neo0. wrote:Yeah, this is what I noticed today. How would I go about creating a physically correct sun? My first thought was just to use a spherical blackbody emitter, but then again, there would be lots of wave lengthss that the sun gives off. Ultraviolet, infrated, etc. Plus, what if I actually want to have the sun in the frame. I would need a decent texture I suppose.
A spherical black-body emitter at 6500K will do just fine.
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Make it a disk and it will render fasterneo0. wrote:Nice, I'll try that.StompinTom wrote:Go outside on a sunny day and tell me what the texture on the sun looks like.neo0. wrote:Yeah, this is what I noticed today. How would I go about creating a physically correct sun? My first thought was just to use a spherical blackbody emitter, but then again, there would be lots of wave lengthss that the sun gives off. Ultraviolet, infrated, etc. Plus, what if I actually want to have the sun in the frame. I would need a decent texture I suppose.
A spherical black-body emitter at 6500K will do just fine.
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Please don't stare into the sun based on my suggestion. That was a joke...neo0. wrote:Nice, I'll try that.StompinTom wrote:Go outside on a sunny day and tell me what the texture on the sun looks like.neo0. wrote:Yeah, this is what I noticed today. How would I go about creating a physically correct sun? My first thought was just to use a spherical blackbody emitter, but then again, there would be lots of wave lengthss that the sun gives off. Ultraviolet, infrated, etc. Plus, what if I actually want to have the sun in the frame. I would need a decent texture I suppose.
A spherical black-body emitter at 6500K will do just fine.
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Haha I meant with the emitter. Hmm.. maybe I might want to later do a scene with the ob observation room overlooking the sun. You know, maybe the windows can adjust themes to block out uv rays and dim the brightness or something.StompinTom wrote: Please don't stare into the sun based on my suggestion. That was a joke...
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The sign missing on the back. "We brake for nobody"
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I would not want to get pulled over in that thing.
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It would be hard to get a ticket though.dag wrote:I would not want to get pulled over in that thing.
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Well, folks. To make a long story short, I have been doing most of my modelling in wings 3d (not terribly artist friendly to be honest) and importing in sketchup. After my latest round of updates failed to import, I have finally realized how little sense my workflow makes and will be learning how to model in sketchup tonight. I've mostly seen people model square objects in su, but I assume that it can also handle curves.
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I had always assumed that the simple geometry of your models was created in SU anyway
Having said that, SU is quite powerful and there is a host of outstanding plugins (aside from SKindigo that help with modeling to your hearts desire.
Look around at Sketchucation.com -> Forum -> Plugin Index.
I don't do much with SU but Subdivide and Smooth by Whaat and RoundCorner by Fredo are two of the most useful (for me). Heck, with Round Rorner SU has a beveling tool that puts to shame anything that Blender has to offer in that department!
Having said that, SU is quite powerful and there is a host of outstanding plugins (aside from SKindigo that help with modeling to your hearts desire.
Look around at Sketchucation.com -> Forum -> Plugin Index.
I don't do much with SU but Subdivide and Smooth by Whaat and RoundCorner by Fredo are two of the most useful (for me). Heck, with Round Rorner SU has a beveling tool that puts to shame anything that Blender has to offer in that department!
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Very cool stuff. I dont know why I didn't make the switch earlier. Wings 3d seems to be going no where frankly. Their 1.0 "milestone" was basically impossible to notice if someone didn't already tell you about it. Sketchup looks like it has a very active community. Can't wait to get started!Headroom wrote:I had always assumed that the simple geometry of your models was created in SU anyway
Having said that, SU is quite powerful and there is a host of outstanding plugins (aside from SKindigo that help with modeling to your hearts desire.
Look around at Sketchucation.com -> Forum -> Plugin Index.
I don't do much with SU but Subdivide and Smooth by Whaat and RoundCorner by Fredo are two of the most useful (for me). Heck, with Round Rorner SU has a beveling tool that puts to shame anything that Blender has to offer in that department!
EDIT : How can I afford all whaat's wonderful plugins? Im just a broke college student
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