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# 1 06-01-2003 , 10:09 PM

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Hello, just fooling around at work, trying to make a realistic valve. Thanks,
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# 2 07-01-2003 , 12:16 AM

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Cool! Maybe soften out the shadows a bit?

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# 3 07-01-2003 , 01:28 AM

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Very cool!

What renderer did you use, or is this the standard built in renderer?

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# 4 07-01-2003 , 01:36 AM

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# 5 07-01-2003 , 03:27 AM

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Ooooo... pretty...

Only comment is that the depth of field seems off to me. The blurred valve looks a little too blurry considering its apparent proximity to the other valve.

Otherwise, really nice!

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# 6 07-01-2003 , 03:32 AM

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another thing I might add is that the texture on the bar's is the same exact on the 2 valves..and where have you seen errosion the same size/shape/color on 2 different things? user added image

other than that, I could have to agree with dannyngan about the dapth of field...maybe you can blur out the farter one and focus on the closest one to the camera

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# 7 07-01-2003 , 11:56 AM

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Is the texturing procedural or is it done in photoshop? It looks very nice either way.

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# 8 07-01-2003 , 01:04 PM

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Hello. From start to finnish (modeling the valves and the crossover pipes in the background to compositing) this took under an hour. so there are details that I have missed, primarly all of the ones you have notice. Things were slow at work but I still wanted to "look" busy. Umm... to answer alot of your questions, the valve in front is actually just a copied layer in photoshop of the first valve, moved down and added a gausion blur. Thats why it has an identical texture and is also way to blurry for DOF. Like allways, I used GI_Joe for rendering and added a slight glow to the materials.THanks for all of your comments, I got alot more than I expected. THanks,
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# 9 07-01-2003 , 01:19 PM

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Originally posted by brian_ellebracht
...the valve in front is actually just a copied layer in photoshop of the first valve, moved down and added a gausion blur...

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I kind of sensed some weird perspective mismatch but didn't want to say anything 'cause I wasn't sure user added image

The pshp trick you used explains it user added image

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