"Old ironsides"

# 1 25-07-2007 , 05:30 PM

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Hey everyone, I'm making this ship for a prop in the backround of a scene that I'm working on. This is the U.S.S Constitution (AKA Old Ironsides) I've used drawings from the instruction manual of the model of the ship. I've been working on this for four days. tel me what you think!!

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# 2 25-07-2007 , 09:14 PM

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Wow thats an awesome model from a crappy reference pic. You must be good user added image

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# 3 25-07-2007 , 11:20 PM

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Indeed, but I guess that he had another picture in order to colorize it and make the details. user added image

How far away will the camera be by the way?

It doesnt scream realism right now but I figure that you dont need to detail it further if you use dof and it is away from the camera. Could you explain the scene to us so we can try understand how you want it. :

Perhaps you should make a more detailed texture to the hull.

Otherwise, nice work and keep it up! user added image

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# 4 25-07-2007 , 11:24 PM

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It'd be good enough for GTA :p Those 3D models are shocking. Have you seen bushes in San Andreas. Its pretty much a textured plane *shakes head* Disgraceful.

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# 5 26-07-2007 , 02:02 AM

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Thankyou everyone for your comments! maybe ill send it to EA to use in their next GTA game!

Yes, i do have other reference pictures, I just used that one for the top view to create the hull. I found a very detailed real model of this on ebay and looked at all the stuff It has. user added image

I'm still new to creating good textures and placing them onto my creations though.

I'm adding alot of stuff that wont even be seen in this picture, but I want to create a complete ship anyway.

This isnt the final image, I still have alot of tweaking to do such as the ships position, I just made that really quick to show you the scene

Oh, by the way Weyu, whats dof?

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# 6 26-07-2007 , 03:37 AM

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DOF is depth of field, basically meaning that you focus on one point on the front of the model, but the back is blurry because only the front is in focus. that confused me though, as i was typing it...
check out this link for a good definition, haha:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_of_field

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# 7 26-07-2007 , 05:31 AM

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hmm. is there a tutorial somewhere that teaches you how to do this?

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# 8 26-07-2007 , 12:04 PM

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That looks great. I think I saw a tutorial on Depth of Field. It is something to do with the attributes I think.

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# 9 26-07-2007 , 05:57 PM

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cool model, would look really great if you threw it in a river/ocean and rendered it in there ... and also is the render abit dark? dont know really since im on schools computer and this monitor is abit, crappy and dark ... :S

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hmm. is there a tutorial somewhere that teaches you how to do this?

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Just press f1 and type in DOF in there, hopefully it should come out, how to use it etc...

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# 10 26-07-2007 , 09:49 PM

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Nice going man any chance of a wireframe?

Theres a real easy way for DOF, you set the cameras center of interest to the focus Distance (think its that) in the hypershade and then use the foucs region scale value to adjust the amount of DOF (oh also have it switched on). To set where you want the DOF to focus just select the camera hit "T" and then use the manipulator to place the focus area.

Some of the settings might for the above might be wrong as ive not got maya open as ive been having a bit of a holiday.

Like Marlon said if you look in the hlp files for DOF it goes over what it is and what the various attributes do

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