FG Sword
 

Hi. I haven't been as active as I'd like on this site, but I'm trying to change that. :) I wanted to start by posting a little something I worked on, and asking what you guys thought. I made an IBL node and mapped a grid texture to it for this shot

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r.../KingSword.jpg

Wowwwwwwww :eek: :eek:

Simply amazing.......how did you render the scene....love it

Can you post a wire?

Me gusta mucho! Hay que fabuloso! How long did it take to render?

Thanks, guys :) I'll post a wireframe in a bit.

As to the rendering, I used Mental Ray Final Gather with an IBL node with a grid texture mapped on it. There's also a very low-intensity point light off-screen upper right, for shadows but looking back I think I could have done without that. The number of FG rays weren't that high, around 600. Or is that high? I'm a bit new to FG.

At NTSC the render took about three minutes, Mental Ray Production settings. I tried rendering at 12"X16" at 250 dpi and it took 34 minutes, hahaha!

Whoa! I'll tell you what WHOA!! (Bartok from Anastasia)

Haha, funny bat, that Bartok.

Just to put things in perspective, those render times were on an AMD Athlon64 2 Ghz, 1 Gig of Ram and a NVidia GeforceFX 6600 card.

Shoot dang! That's good processing! If my high school were to have that, I wouldn't have to worry too much about quality of the render! I could be happy! Of course, it's not too bad. My piano video with full raytracing (1000 frames) took over two days to render.

Sparticus

We all have stories like that :) When I was studying I also rendered so many frames over the weekend. Thank goodness no one turned the machine off, and it didn't crash, as I was rendering .AVI's. So if it did, I would have started all over again.

Here's the wireframe render:

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r.../Wireframe.jpg

Very very nice, the only thing I feel doesn't fit is the Sword of Kings font. Maybe use something a bit more classical. Otherwise great model!

nice model

only crit is that u have a lot of setail on the top but none on the sides
seems a little odd to me

I agree, I think the font should be more of an Old English text or something medieval looking. other than that I love the sword!

thats a really nice render of the sword ... looks pretty sweet i feel like buying one now ;) just out of curiousity, what is in the backround/enviroment which is making them really wicked reflections on the buttom of the sword(handle), thanks

marlon

Hey, thanks, marlonjohn. That's actually a grid texture mapped to an IBL node. I think I rotated it 30 degrees or so, and sometimes just doing that makes the reflections more interesting I find.


IJke and Rhetoric Camel, yeah, I initially wanted to write it in Latin, so I picked a font that kinda looks like the font they use in the HBO series ROME, but I didn't figure out what "sword" was in Latin. I know King is Rex or Regis... What font would you guys suggest?

And as for the lack of design on the sides, well, the original I copied didn't have any so I left them out. But I see what you mean, pbman. I'll add some more of the vine-like design things to the side.

:)