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"A Darkness at Sethanon", a book I aspire to model some of the charcters and scenes
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Jay: Ah I figured out what you meant by use the surface shader. I took the shortcut and just assigned the MR AO texture to the model and it now automatically adds the surface shader but also links it to a lambert so you get AO + a lambert. It can be changed to surface shader in the attribute and then you only get the AO which you can composite.
Although I am still not getting any shadowing under the parts even of the ground plane is nearly touching the objects above it.
In fact I added an area light and turned on ray trace shadows and still got no shadows at all, so I am guessing in my wild flipping of MR switches I flipped something bad on. I somehow feel like you need to set 30 dials and knobs for every photon in the scene and no two scenes are the same. lol
I will get it dialed in soon though.
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Camera wise, just check in the render settings that you haven't got a different camera selected.
AO settings, attached mate......
ahh no mate do this: create a surface shader add an AO texture to the color channel. Then create a new render layer, assign the models to the layer, then under overides, assign existing material overide (in this case the surface shader) -render!
hope that helps
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Thanks.
Well I have already shot some footage for this with a friend of mine who is a film extra, as a pilot. So I'm going to be animating some stuff with live action comped in. It already story boarded. My pal has actual WWII flying outfits, mainly RAF but he bought over what the Americans used as well. I took some stills - alot of stills actually of him in the pilots outfit - all of which I will post in the resource lounge once Im done with it. I'll be doing a digital pilot too for medium and long shots. I just want to test myself and up my game a bit too - cant hurt having more skills.
Also I'll be doing the standard AO and wire turntables for a personal modelling reel too, thats also what I intended my Audrey Hepburn character for as well.....
hows that!!
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The plane above the model is what I was saying in your post. If a model has large flat areas that have no detail occlusion doesnt work because the rays just bounce off into nothing, causing extreme white outs. So by adding the plane the rays bounce back to the model.
If you think about it thats how AO works anyway with corners and the like, its because the rays are bouncing to and from each surface thats in close proximity causing the dark occluded areas....
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Hey Ben
Thanks.
Well I have already shot some footage for this with a friend of mine who is a film extra, as a pilot. So I'm going to be animating some stuff with live action comped in. It already story boarded. My pal has actual WWII flying outfits, mainly RAF but he bought over what the Americans used as well. I took some stills - alot of stills actually of him in the pilots outfit - all of which I will post in the resource lounf once Im done with it. I'll be doing a digital pilot too for medium and long shots. I just want to test myself and up my game a bit too - cant hurt having more skills.
Also I'll be doing the standard AO and wire turntables for a personal modelling reel too, thats also what I intended my Audrey Hepburn character for as well.....
hows that!!
cheers mate
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Awesome! Curious to see how it all comes together. Look forward to it.
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Listen to that Merlin Engine Howl.............amazing!!
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Update on the P51 coming shortly, just doing the exhaust points behind the prop cutting that hole!!
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I will get back on the F8F project at some point and may do a Rare Bear version. The modification would not be that hard.
Reno Airrace - Rare Bear 2003 - YouTube
It uses a modified P3 Orion propeller (looks like a gigantic spoon) and I saw it at the Reno air races some years back. It is to bad that all you can get in the videos is sound because when it flew past the earth rumbled! They had a 3 and 4-blade version one was faster in the straights and the other for tight turn short courses.
When I was living in Plano TX I had a hanger right next to the Strega. This is not my video just one I found. All my stuff is buried in storage.
Strega - Whitch-in-the-box or the Merlin that screamed in the night - YouTube
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anyway small update.....Adding the exhaust area now..will add the pipes tomorrow
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