TMP Drydock
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Well, it's kinda of hard to double up on Bruce Willises (Bruce Willi?) when you don't have cloning tech.
small update, Search4 took a ruler to the model for me 
so i finished getting everything sized out correctly, and detailed the paneling along the sides of the storage complex's
i have nothing new on the 3d yet, and i'm still working on the greebles for the lower surface, probably wont be anything new to post untill i get into detailing the 3d model.
so i finished getting everything sized out correctly, and detailed the paneling along the sides of the storage complex's
i have nothing new on the 3d yet, and i'm still working on the greebles for the lower surface, probably wont be anything new to post untill i get into detailing the 3d model.
Saquist
Commodore
i did a few test renders to test out the lighting rig, still havnt found the right touch yet...
maybe i'll put my Lego-E into it tomorrow when i get time to figure it out.
Carefully, those boxes you made are not light boxes, they do not emit light. The light is coming from the numerous spots on the dock, and the rig they used outside the dock.
Are you talking about the blue... things that do something boxes? Those were most certainly lit internally.
i am being carefull not to make the screens themselves too bright, i've simply made the material self-illuminating and placed scene lights just above their surface. but when its done and i put my E in it, i want to do the illumination using the Docks lights only.
this is all the light the actual boxes cast (and this is turned up to maximum)
this is all the light the actual boxes cast (and this is turned up to maximum)
When you see the pictures of them setting up the scene for real, using all those spots and mirrors and so forth, you wonder why we spend so long trying to get the lighting lifelike in CGI. They cheated! Go cheat a bit, safe in the knowledge that it's a trade secret.
yea, i especially like the bit in the TMP bonus disc where they showed a glimpse of the "dental rig" with all the little mirrors there.
i guess to satisfy mass-appeal i'll have to do 2 separate lighting setups, i really want to do one of my own using the light screens. i just want to see the model with all the overlaping shadows and illuminations.
"if only there were a print-screen button on the side of my head..."
in the meantime i've done a few more test-renders and as promised i put in my Legoprise
first here's a powered-down shot with just some sunlight to show the whole scene.
and here's some with just the light-screens on, there are still the spotlight-gun things to model on the lower frames, and the big octagon light array thing to be modeled, which should even up the coverage. but here's how it is now.
in the end once i have my regular E in there i'll probably do a little better aiming of the lights on the corner frames. as it is now the light is aimed just as the boxes are at 45°'s and all 3 outer edge lights end up focusing on the same region in the center of mass.
i'll start working on modeling the rest of those bits, and the kitbash greebles later in the week. i still have more i want to get done on my x-wing first however.
i guess to satisfy mass-appeal i'll have to do 2 separate lighting setups, i really want to do one of my own using the light screens. i just want to see the model with all the overlaping shadows and illuminations.
"if only there were a print-screen button on the side of my head..."
in the meantime i've done a few more test-renders and as promised i put in my Legoprise
first here's a powered-down shot with just some sunlight to show the whole scene.
and here's some with just the light-screens on, there are still the spotlight-gun things to model on the lower frames, and the big octagon light array thing to be modeled, which should even up the coverage. but here's how it is now.
in the end once i have my regular E in there i'll probably do a little better aiming of the lights on the corner frames. as it is now the light is aimed just as the boxes are at 45°'s and all 3 outer edge lights end up focusing on the same region in the center of mass.
i'll start working on modeling the rest of those bits, and the kitbash greebles later in the week. i still have more i want to get done on my x-wing first however.
i ended up working on this more today after all 
i put in my unfinished Refit too, the un-optimized acad mesh nearly crippled my dual-core system when i tried rendering.......... these 2nd shot here with the sunlight effect turned on took about 90 minutes to render
i guess i'll have to get around to re-working it!
anyway here's another dock-only setup, and the 2nd as mentioned has environmental setup turned on too
i put in my unfinished Refit too, the un-optimized acad mesh nearly crippled my dual-core system when i tried rendering.......... these 2nd shot here with the sunlight effect turned on took about 90 minutes to render
i guess i'll have to get around to re-working it!anyway here's another dock-only setup, and the 2nd as mentioned has environmental setup turned on too
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