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Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 2

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# 16 09-06-2005 , 05:37 AM

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i like how you made the 'scaley' look...still a few seams where the fins meet the bottom of the body...try fading in from one color to the next...more gradual

I like it!

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# 17 09-06-2005 , 11:45 AM

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Thanks errethakbe,

I plan on hopefully spending some of this weekend on it. I've still got to get rid of the scales on the fins and head . . so many little jobs still left to do.

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# 18 09-06-2005 , 03:29 PM

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Hey, good progress. I like the scale texture also, how exactly did you do it? Also, if you still havent got a soltion to your gills, why not try bump maps, unless of course you want to animate it.

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# 19 09-06-2005 , 08:25 PM

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Thanks alienscience,

The scales were done with a Bump Map.

I want to be able to animate the gills, so the bump map idea may be out user added image

If I crack I may use a bump map.

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# 20 10-06-2005 , 01:04 AM

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Ahh, yes. Good choice. But once again, excellent job on the scales, did you use reflectivity for the shader or specular map for the texture? I cant get over how well they look. GREAT JOB :i would put a thumbs up smiley thing here, but they got rid of them, so you will have to settle for user added image

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Edit: oh wait, sorry, after looking at the model, I cant see much reflection. Whoops, guess I will have to wait for a lighted scene for that. But I AM sure you did a good job with it.

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# 21 22-06-2005 , 11:47 PM

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I plan on doing some more this weekend so hopefully I will have something worth posting.

Can anyone suggest a way of doing a Pebbly River bed? I really don't want to model 100 rocks to make the river bed. I'm wondering if I can get away with simply texturing a Poly Plane with a river bed image.

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# 22 23-06-2005 , 09:23 PM

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I have an idea that might work for the gills (Pm me if your interested). As for the pebbles, if you can get a really good texture for it and create a tileset type thing, it would be good in my eyes.

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# 23 24-06-2005 , 07:03 AM

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You can get a way with texture, but I don't recommend a flat plane. freehand some nurbs curve, spead them apart and loft them together to create a more organic surface are.

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# 24 26-06-2005 , 03:32 AM

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Hi Guys,

This was a picture I did last week, but I've decided to drop this texture and the bump map. I've been looking at some Trout and I've noticed you can't actually see a defining bump where the scales are, since the scales are too thin. What you do see is a lighter spot in the middle of each scale. So to give the scale appearance I need to start the texture over again :headbang:

So there you have it my texture is all wrong :angery:

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# 25 26-06-2005 , 05:34 AM

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Lighten it up a bit and either joint it or deform it to add some bends for "action"

I thought the texture was looking pretty good. Exactness wasn't necessary for the competitition.

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# 26 26-06-2005 , 06:09 AM

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Thanks Michael,

I know what you mean, but as much as I'm slowly getting my head around Modelling and Texturing, I never seem to be satisfied with the end result.

It's Sunday night here and I've been at it since 9:00am :zzz:

BTW: For the River bed I'm going to try nurbs curves and loft them together as per you post. Can't wait to see how that comes out user added image

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# 27 26-06-2005 , 09:11 PM

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Hi guys,

I was wondering if anyone knows how I can make parts of my fins translucent ?

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# 28 27-06-2005 , 04:18 AM

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you can make a transparency map (black = transparent, white = solid)
u can use youre normal texture map, make it grayscale, and paint white over the areas you want solid

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# 29 27-06-2005 , 11:32 PM

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Thanks for all your help guys. I'm pretty much out of time.

In any case here are some pics of the trout

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# 30 28-06-2005 , 10:36 AM

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you did a fantastic job on the trout. I´m glad you are in the noob section, cause if you were posting in norm I wouldn´t have much chance against it!

good luck pal!

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