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# 16 24-04-2009 , 10:03 PM

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# 17 30-04-2009 , 12:24 AM

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Finished the canons inside the chassy and wings. Working on the grenade canon thing under the cockpit. Anyone know of any plugins to help uv unwrap or shall i just get on and do it manually?

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# 18 30-04-2009 , 12:28 AM

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Heaps of modeling hey. Big project.
looking good.
Why not just use cylidrical maping on the gun, and for the few planes just do a plane projection.

There's nothing normal about normals. In FACT i think the are abnormal.

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# 19 30-04-2009 , 12:44 AM

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cheers ant, yep sounds like i will try and do what you said. But i dont know if its going to be worth it since my comp wont beable to render high res textures. But maybe i wont see much if i animate the camera properly?

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# 20 30-04-2009 , 03:17 AM

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Originally posted by meredith
Anyone know of any plugins to help uv unwrap or shall i just get on and do it manually?

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roadkill is the usual suggestion, its free

or you can pay $300US and get yourself headus UV

there are other free UV mapping tools to help assist, either way you need to move UVs around manually every so often

you might be able to do it faster doing ant's suggestion though

nice work on the chinook, reminds of the command and conquer generals game

btw, is that landing gear all done with polys or did you do some bump/normal/displacement mapping?

that's a "Ch" pronounced as a "K"

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# 21 01-05-2009 , 01:48 AM

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Hey chirone
Cheers man, i think i might just do it manually unless i can find a copy of that plugin. Wheels and landing gear are all modeled with geometry. Makes my comp lag but i reckon it beats a bump map.
Almost finished modeling, kinda looking forward to uv unwrapping. So i should really move on while it lasts

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# 22 01-05-2009 , 02:03 AM

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once you've laid out the UVs you can actually use the Render > Transfer Maps and bake yourself a displacement map

it'll save you some polys and processing power and still keep the details

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# 23 01-05-2009 , 02:54 AM

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Cheers man, havn't heard of that before. I'll give maya help a search and try and find some more about it. More processing power = good times

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# 24 01-05-2009 , 08:41 AM

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This model is rendering really clean!

Very good work, i can see you have patience as well, thats where i usually cheat on the detailing. user added image

free memory low..exception thrown

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# 25 06-05-2009 , 01:26 AM

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Thanks paldav
I dont have that much patience, my images are taking 25mins to render :headbang:
I love what you are doing in your star-wars thread. The scene your building if awesome. Cheers for your post

Finished modeling. Had some trouble with the blin material on the windows looking correct.
Would love to shoot out some more renders, but can only render when i'm not working. Does anyone know of a way to render more than one shot from different cameras one after the other while saving them. Since it would be ideal to shoot off a whole lot of renders while im sleeping user added image

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# 26 06-05-2009 , 01:39 AM

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command line render:
https://www.3dtotal.com/team/Tutorial.../command01.asp

this will show you how to do it, all the flags you can use are listed somewhere... can't remember where... maybe in the help files but i saw them all on the web once

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# 27 06-05-2009 , 06:36 AM

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Thanks heaps chirone!
I've set it all up so it can be rendered through the terminal. But i am on a mac so i cant save my multiple commanded txt file as a .bat which maya uses to batch render all the files. Is there anyway of changing this .txt file to a file that maya reads? And how do i execute this in the terminal?
At the moment i have got a separate scene for every camera angle. Is this the best way? or can you just create lots of cameras in the one scene and command it someway to render all cameras?
Thanks for the awesome info chirone, helps really appreciated!
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# 28 06-05-2009 , 07:22 AM

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another think the colors off

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# 29 06-05-2009 , 08:31 AM

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Originally posted by meredith
Thanks heaps chirone!
I've set it all up so it can be rendered through the terminal. But i am on a mac so i cant save my multiple commanded txt file as a .bat which maya uses to batch render all the files. Is there anyway of changing this .txt file to a file that maya reads? And how do i execute this in the terminal?
At the moment i have got a separate scene for every camera angle. Is this the best way? or can you just create lots of cameras in the one scene and command it someway to render all cameras?
Thanks for the awesome info chirone, helps really appreciated!
Mark

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you can rename a .txt file to a .sh file and run it from terminal
but you need to change the permissions on it first
type:

Code:

sudo chmod 744 script.sh

assuming your file is called script.sh and you've pointed terminal to the directory it resides in
i think you'll need to type in your user's password to
you only need to do that once

then type

Code:

./script.sh

and it should run the .sh file like windows would with a .bat file

so i'm told. i tend to stop paying attention whenever my friend did these terminal hacks... but that's what he says to do

i don't think you can get maya to read the txt files, it only understands .mel and .py
although gster123 mentioned that there are scripts on highend3d that can render different cameras too, but i haven't looked

i'm not sure if having a seperate scene for each camera angle is better than having a single scene with multiple cameras
i thought it more common to do the latter
unless the chinook is referenced in all of the scenes except for the one you're working with i'd say it's better to have all cameras in one scene, that way, when you update the chinook in one scene you don't have to do the same updates in the others. (never used referencing, so i don't know how much effort is involved)
i think it might come down to how you want to organise your files on your disk...

either way you can use the command line.
you are able to tell it what camera to render from and what frames to render.

https://caad.arch.ethz.ch/info/maya/m...ender.fm1.html

https://www.jawa9000.com/Technical/ba...-rendering.htm

from the looks of these you can switch the camera using -cam <camera_name>

can't say anything about the colour... i thought that was teh look you were going for

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# 30 06-05-2009 , 09:23 AM

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awesome man!
Thanks soo much, this will make it much easier.
Where in nz are you based?
Bit more modeling to do, but i'm going to go onto the uv unwrapping now

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