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I wanted to make a "Mad Biologist Lab' inside a giant mushroom, where lots of mad plants grow.
I have two questions: See my tree trunk? How do I make it more detailed without painstakingly move the CVs one by one? (It used to be a smooth mesh but it's just a plain polygon now.) Also, is there any tutorials on how to make basic plant shapes?
Sorry about the watermark, starving student here.
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You could try mapping a real tree texture onto your trunk; I have been using some photo textures painted over / altered a bit from the standard in photoshop, placed onto a UV map and it's working out ok mixed with textures painted form scratch. Othewise you could extrude some faces to give you some texture or apply a tree like bump map to your shader as Dr Know suggests.
Don't know of any plant tutorials, last time I made a plant I just duplicated a basic leaf shape I created from a plane.
There is a tutorial on making trees in paintfx here;
https://www.alias.com/eng/community/t...ls/index.jhtml
and that may be of interest if you want to add foliage without lots of geometry.
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Any opinion on the provisional lighting?
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Also, how do we put liquid into my glass container? For each container I have two layers of glass, I tried putting a ramp on the inner layer of glass but it didn't quite work out.
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Your scene is looking good, I like the reflection on the glass. Are you going to put more organic creepy mad scientist tools in there?
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I really love that plant in the middle, that's great.
In terms of scale how about some tools or other handheld equipment? They tend to show how big a person is who might use them.
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As for the glow, I hadn't noticed that before. If I were to guess, I would imagine that because raytracing calculates lights and how they affect surfaces, it's not registering the light hitting the glowing interior surfaces.
I think what I would do is render the glowing object with "Hide Source" checked seperately and then composite that result over your final rendered image.
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Hmmmm....I'll have to pay attetion to teh "High Source" thing
next time, thanks! And there is always Photoshop! Oh, are we allow to composite it with photoshop?
I am currently distracted by the new Harry Potter book, but I'll finish the book tonight and get back to more madness of my vegetation....
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I think I got the "lab" part and the "mad" part, but the "science" part is a little weak. Any suggestion on what should be added to make it more scientific?
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