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Well, anyway, since you began this model, this is a great improvement! It looks grat as it is now, espacially I like the tale or whatever it's called....the texturing also looks nice! Maybe you can even improve it....maybe by adding a little specularity....try searching for pictures of crocodiles, delphins and similar creatures, to see how exactly does it look in under the sea/water.
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yeah jango gave me some good advice, with the spotlights and fog, the scene has come along nice, and have done a few mods to the "sharkodille", but i am not going to post anymore pics (he says) untill its complete!!!!
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You are becoming godlike!! Somebody has asked how you did the texture!!
Keep it Secret, Keep it safe!! LOL
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as Jango says I'M Not TELLING!!
Just kidding
The texture was created in a trial version of alias sketchbook, when i got a picture link (see previous messages) from Mike, i "pipetted" (if thats a word) the colours from the tail, and airbrushed a colour at a time untill it kinda ramped,
for the bump map I drew (with a mouse) lots of little scales, mirrored and flipped the image, saved it really low res in "microsoft paint(!)" then re-oppened it - and it has got loads of little "pixel errors" these created "spottyness" and there you have it, horns and teeth were cyl maps with a <blend> of a few colours with a fine line bump.
heres another picture (i am such a liar) a closer, better bump view, (the back horns are going through a transition at the moment) so not quite finished.
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Hopefully be online this week hopefully, my friend has been on hols!! Hes gonna try and finish it this week!!
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>>"through my new computer"<<< had to drop that in there - i'm all exited!
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Cool, what ya gettin?
I saw that guy on Jsproggs thread, wots he on??
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Jeez too much Maya!!!....actually I dont think so saying that!!
Looks good!!
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