Carl's Corner :)

This regions claim to fame is tornadoes.

My house is kind-of flimsy. Here we call them trailer houses or mobile homes. Do you have them in Australia? This one is more than thirty years old so a good wind can make things interesting. We have holes in the ground and hide in them during tornadoes.

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ronviers wrote: How are the mountains coming along?

I knew I forgot something! Just reading websites and doing the Cat/Dog click a day thing then will be right on to my class work.. Was getting more things done in Second life the past few days. Seen as its now Tuesday I think I should get suck into my course work.

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ronviers wrote: A key thing these two images make clear is how important it is for artists to use their imagination throughout the entire process. It would be easy to write off the model as low quality.

Thats way cool though how they did it, going to click the link after I get my homework done.. Distractions everywhere!! lol!

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Carl wrote: he's in the green zone and he's not going to die of wind

Aaah.. take it he avoids baked beans?

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ronviers wrote: We have holes in the ground and hide in them during tornadoes.

Gosh scary!

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StevieJ wrote: Ron, that "Z Brush" rendering looks really cool!!!

It does but I think I would need a lot longer than one month to try it out plus a couple of extra braincells to rub together..

Hey Ron here's the first section of my Bryce week two class work, its not the homework assignment though, there's about 3-4 pages of class work before I get to that part lol!

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ronviers wrote: Did you do that with polygons or nurbs?

Um... Hello... have we met? ..

Okay what I did was used the built in functions they have for smoothing, changing shapes etc etc, then used one of the terrain textures. Mind this was what was asked for, in the lesson. Now am playing with sunlight, but messed around first and did a red rock like rugged mountain kinda image. Lol if you want I could see if I can get a picture of the wire frames probably would be a screen shot though.

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ronviers wrote: How do you edit the textures? Are there nodes?

When you open the screen to pick the textures you have these tabs you can pull to add/change light, reflections, refractions, metal etc, also a more advanced function that allows you to mix different textures together to make a new texture for the image your working on. Although them are more advanced than the class am taking. Will do something more interesting for the screen shot at the moment all that's showing is 3 shapes, a circle, cylinder and square, doing the next stage of this weeks class work lol.

they kinda look like some of the mountains you can make in Bryce.. think I have a few more sky setting ones to do but once I have will do one of them mountains again

okay have to shut down bryce anyway while I go cook just in case it crashes so I decided to do the screen shot now here it is, is the first mountain image but with out textures

well here's some more bits to add to the question list

This one shows you some of the terrain choices that are built in texture wise

okay see the bit that says use texture A colour to the right I mess around with that and had to render the result , and now I go cook food and leave you with heaps of questions to answer

That Bryce GUI always runs chills down my spine...

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Crapadilla wrote: That Bryce GUI always runs chills down my spine

How come?

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ronviers wrote: But it looks so friendly - like it is smiling at me.

I think because I played with the 2 month demo's for Vue 6 that was why I had issues with getting my head around Bryce, but now I am doing this class things are starting to click in place.

So what are the questions Ron? No clue if I can answer them but you never know

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Beliria wrote: demo's for Vue

I still think you and Vue are a good fit.

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Carl wrote: very stupid.............. what the hell are you doing living in a pink zone

I don't even have my own personal hole. The closest one is half a mile away. I never go anyway. I prefer Lieutenant Dan's ('Forest Gump') approach of being at the top of the tall pole on the fishing ship.

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Beliria wrote: my winzip trial has expired

We have to pay?! I have been using it for decades and never had to pay.

Think they have changed the set up with the newer versions then cause they have a timer in them and then you get a message saying you cant use this because the time has expired. I did find a version 9 online and took the version 11.2 off my computer and rebooted it earlier, then got distracted by real life . Will put that on and see if it works like the one you have. I remember having a version years ago that did that as well but that was on my other computer.

So yes the new versions after the trial period you pay and it says on the web site this is not free software etc etc.

http://www.winzip.com/index.htm

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StevieJ wrote: Hey, Edgar Allen Poe I'm not

Glad you said that

handed this in for this weeks assignment

heya Ron yes was done in Bryce, lol I wasn't to happy with how the texture on the mountains came out but the Tutor of the class was happy.. so um lol!

Mind seems like there are only two of us doing this basic class, but only me is handing stuff in.. kinda OMG!! I liked it with the Xenodream class because there was a few of us, well 5 of 6 of us I think.. much more fun when there are a few learning together because you can bounce idea's of each other.

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StevieJ wrote: Oh where oh where could our Cheekus be..... No recent posts from the crazy Aussi.....

Carl has been hooked on a feeling. He's busy working on his 'Ooga Chaka Chaka Ooga' line of textures.

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Beliria wrote: Ahh well least he's not playing with your balls

Well, the most important thing is that I got that song stuck in everyone's head.


'Ooga Chaka Chaka Ooga'

nope but you reminded me, made some textures yesterday that was going to try and figure out how to use in Bryce, then I um got distracted by other things.. , like have a few things to do now but thought would check emails etc first then go do them. Will do the Bryce thing when I get back.. or attempt too

wow that's some mouthful of cupcake

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ronviers wrote: I cannot tell you what I'm working on – it's a secret.

Tell me!!! Tell me!!! LOL....

LOL..... I hear ya......I'm the same way.....I don't like to show anything until it is completed.....