Fight of the Titans

[BrowserGamesFactory]

Nah not a fight, just alain and myself playing with same object files

So both of us render the same 3D object file and see what the result is.

Next one a P90

 

Alain is clearly the winner with his render techniques :)

The difference in time is also significant, while my render costs me aprox a minute or 2, it costs alain 20 minutes.

[a_bertrand]

And I would need to spend yet a lot more time to do true good renders.

It shows:

- Object models are not all, you need lights, textures and render settings / render softwares to get good images

- Rendering is as any thing else, it takes a long long time to learn... and you continuesly improve yourself.

- At the end you always get what you pay for: no time => not good.

[BrowserGamesFactory]

- At the end you always get what you pay for: no time => not good.

True, hence hiring a modeller/3D Artist is close to $300/h.

Anyway,

For those interested, We can provide both weapon object files. Only request is that you will ad your render of same object to this topic without a watermark.

Note: This type of 'Friendly Fights' will also be part of the BrowserGamesFactory Community boards. Where BGF will provide the objects to their members.

[BrowserGamesFactory]

Zeggy, Equinox , Paddy and Djkanna will give it also a shot

These are renders by Zeggy

 

Djkanna , seems to curse himself for jumping on it to give it a shot and is wondering what exactly he is doing

[Djkanna]

I really do have no clue how to do these I'm really just following lines in Blender that's all.

Wish me luck please!

[Equinox]

My attempt has turned into an exploding sphere animation...As I have no clue how to save the animation, I took a screenshot XD

Yay! XD

[Lilith]

Hey, I want in ... I love 3d, send the file you want me to render in a .obj format and Ill give it a go!

 

Equinox: I feel your pain buddy, I sooooooo have been there done that! So much for that image right?

[Jordan Palmer]

Very....interesting equinox xD

[Lilith]

This cross program .obj file thingy kinda sucks! but, there is what I have so far ..... took over 1:20 min to render ...... WTF over? I hope I dont have an issue with my gfx card :$

[BrowserGamesFactory]

looks good lilith but 1h20 is way overboard

[Nickson]

that is indeed a lot :o but I have to say, it took very long, but it's the best result I have seen at this point :D

[Lilith]

I should never take that long! It never has, there is something wrong with my putter.

[BrowserGamesFactory]

Honestly I' impressed, different people - different renders, yet same object.

It does show creativity and that a object isn't really as generic as it looks like.

[Lilith]

Goes to show the use of 3d in text based games has an entire variety of applications.

[a_bertrand]

Here goes yet another render:

BTW it seems we have different 3D models for this gun... would be good to have only one :rolleyes:

And the grain on the rendering is wished as I tried to render a bit a texture on it which is grainy... not 100 smooth.

[Dave]

Just out of interest because 3D is something I may explore at a later date, what programs/tools are you using for the textures, lighting and so on?

[a_bertrand]

I use Lightwave 3D for modeling, rendering

for textures either I use lightwave or darksim darktree.

[BrowserGamesFactory]

You could start with http://www.blender.org

There are 100s of vid tutorials available for blender.

An example of what is possible in blender.

 

[Maniak]

If you have a sum of money to play with, I would suggest Autodesk 3D Max! I used it in college and it is 1 hell of a program! Looks confusing as hell, but I made quite a good Mayan themed City Scape with it (:

[BrowserGamesFactory]

Or big brother Autodesk Maya, $3500 however student licenses are like 30% of the officiall retail value for autodesk products.

[Jordan Palmer]

I've been looking around I found CGDigest, They offer some great free work along with great tutorials ;)

[Lilith]

I use a variety of programs,however I find that Daz3d is the simplest to start off with and see success. The User Interface is friendly, and there are a lot of options avalible for Dressing up existing 3d models". Good thing its a free program, BC you soon outgrow it.

I got Autodesk about 3 days ago .... seems cool, but I'm on a steep learning curve. Will be able to tell you more about it later.