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Post by Walter on Dec 28, 2011 0:32:33 GMT -7
Did some work with the TIE fighter model today. In addition to testing the flight animations, I set up the laser cannons as well.
Here are a few video clips showing the progress
Simple TIE fighter flyby
First test of the Laser cannons
TIE fighter rolling and firing its laser cannons
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Post by Walter on Dec 29, 2011 9:10:19 GMT -7
A still shot of the TIE fighter firing its laser cannons over a planet. I put the planet in for some background. I threw it together quickly. For the actual production shots I'll be making better looking planets but I didn't want to invest the time in that right now. I'm working on more destructive portions of the project now (crashes, explosions etc) so hopefully it will result in some interesting clips in the near future   |
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Post by Walter on Dec 29, 2011 11:57:08 GMT -7
The animations are beginning to get a little more interesting.
Here is a test shot of a TIE Fighter crashing into a support structure. This is the early stage of crashing vehicles and I'm only testing the disintegration of the vehicle. Explosions and fire and smoke come later.
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Post by Walter on Dec 29, 2011 16:19:43 GMT -7
Here is the TIE fighter crash as seen from multiple angles
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Post by Walter on Jan 2, 2012 2:05:43 GMT -7
Working on a video sequence of TIE fighters launching from a Star Destroyer. This is a still from the work being done on that.  |
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Post by Walter on Jan 3, 2012 13:38:08 GMT -7
Test shot of TIE Fighter leaving Star Destroyer hangar. This clip also has sound.
I'm having an issue with the Final gather settings which is causing the flickering you see when the hangar bay is in view in the first part of the video
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Post by Walter on Jan 3, 2012 23:33:23 GMT -7
Here is the TIE fighter launching again with the flickering repaired. Also added a music track.
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Post by Walter on May 18, 2012 0:32:02 GMT -7
Updated some of my software, now running 3ds Max 2012. They have added some nice features including a couple of new rendering options. Here is a quick render of a TIE Fighter using the iray render option. It basically allows you to create scenes with realistic lighting in one pass instead of several.  |
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Lone Wolf
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Post by Lone Wolf on May 19, 2012 23:48:43 GMT -7
Looks nice. Bit suprised they now have programs that render like that in one pass on the commercial market.
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Post by Walter on May 20, 2012 15:28:58 GMT -7
yeah, the software is really getting better and better. You can focus on the project rather than worrying about all the technical aspects.
iray isn't the solution all of the time, but it really can help speed up things for scenes that can use it.
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