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# 1 30-05-2007 , 09:40 PM
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Commodore 64

I decided to model the Commodore 64 to go along with the tape drive I recently finished. Here's what I got so far. Hardest part is to get the real "curving" of the keys, all rows has a different curve to them (also new keyboards).

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# 2 30-05-2007 , 11:46 PM
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Looks cool. God I loved my commodore 64.

# 3 30-05-2007 , 11:58 PM
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Yeah the C-64 got me interested in computers... it's da real shiznit user added image

Here's some more progress.

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# 4 31-05-2007 , 09:22 AM
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Did the side, so I think the modelling is done. I wont bother with the stuff at the back. So I guess the real fun starts now, texturing the keys :headbang:

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# 5 31-05-2007 , 12:55 PM
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Looks pretty sweet, canÕt wait to see the texturing!
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Haha! I remembered seeing one of my dads old one in the garage the other day user added image Really liking it blazer ... Especially that oldschool circle plug user added image Now its time to use your magic of rendering and this will look marvelous,

keep us posted,

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# 7 31-05-2007 , 11:50 PM
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Looking really great. How did you model the din connector?

Maya and precision hard surface modeling gives me troubles.

# 8 01-06-2007 , 12:39 AM
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My first computer was a commodore 64.

Ahh, those were the days, young and care free....

Ahem, sorry.....what I meant to say was...

Great model, I'm sure that you'll do it's texturing and rendering justice too.

Take it easy,

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# 9 01-06-2007 , 04:19 AM
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ctbram: The din connector is just a cylinder with about 50 sides. I just manipulated the vertices in the front and deleted some faces. So this one isn't suitable for applying a smooth on. But since I don't need such extreme close-ups it's ok. A wire of everything unsmoothed:

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By the way, I'm having trouble finding the font or a font with very high likeness to the font used on the keys. So if anyone happens to know what font or one that looks very alike pleeease let me know. Here's a pic user added image

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# 12 01-06-2007 , 06:51 AM
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Thanks for the wireframe. I need to work on some more hard surface models.

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t1ck135: Holy crap, that's impressive to emulate at least some bits of the C64 in flash... since flash isn't the fastest thing in the world...

Gonna go throug my about 800 fonts now and see if I find anything... since there are alot of c64-freaks with sites I'm sure there MUST be anyone knowing the name or something aobut the font used. I also couln't find any dimensions of the computer when I searched for it, so now I've just eyeballed it. (since I don't own one myself)

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I wen through about 800 fons (in MS Word, took only about 15 mins) and the font that looked most alike was exactly the last font, called Zurich. I'll go with that, dont think I'll find a better one, unless I get the name of the real one.

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Ok, I did the top of all te keys. So now's just those strange symbols that I need to create by hand, oooh the humanity!

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# 17 01-06-2007 , 01:34 PM
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Wow, that looks really good. It would be better if you could do an anti-aliased render though.
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wow - you've pulled it out again DJbLAZER - this model is looking really cool! i think you might have to do the whole set up - a C64 hard drive and an eighties monitor... and lots of wires! great choice of model.
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One thing - you mentioned going through fonts in word - is that the best way to find a font? I'm looking for a certain font at the moment - is there no way to look at an entire font in photoshop as sometimes it comes down to finding a certain letter?....

sorry for the dumb question! thanks

# 19 01-06-2007 , 02:42 PM
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Jr.Who, yeah it probably would look better, since that's no render at all, just a screen shot =)

thanks arran, actually I modelled the front of my old Commodore 1084S monitor for a project some year ago. I just needed a front render, though I could only find a very few image references so I couldn't model the sides and back even if I wanted to.

To look through fonts I think using MS Word is the best way. You type the letters you want to look at in a document (could be the whole alphabet if you want). Then you select the text and go to the font selector. Then you would just use the arrow keys to go through the fonts. Very quick and easy.

# 20 01-06-2007 , 02:52 PM
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Looking really good man! great job.

It was only about 6 months ago that I threw my C64 away, it was stored in the loft for years, games and all, and I was getting rid of stuff before moving, I tried it out but it didnt work, shame.

I rember programming on it, I think if memory serves me correctly that those strange symbols were something to do with characters needed to programme (I remember making an adventure game from a book that I got from the library, copying all the code, took me weeks to do it and then there was loads of bugs, I was only about 8/9 at the time!)

When we going to see a full Maxwell jobbie on it?

I reckon a bit of fun would to have this in your living room scene, attached to your plasma!!


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