A little game of chess...

# 1 09-04-2005 , 01:35 PM

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Hey, I'm working on a game of chess. I'm planning on trying some stuff with rendering and maybe a nice animation. I'm still like learning a lot, so might not be top notch, but I'm trying user added image

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I'll try to work on it regularly and update this user added image

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Here's some progress on the modells of the pieces:

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# 2 10-04-2005 , 02:03 PM

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I did some more work...I got the models of the pieces somewhat finished I guess.

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# 3 10-04-2005 , 03:31 PM

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Nice work so far. Just a few crits... The king & queen are generally taller than the other pieces. Your rooks, especially look too tall in relation to the other pieces. The knights might be a bit more horse shaped. Finally, the scene might benefit from an additional light or two to fill in detail in the shadowed areas.

Keep up the good work.

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# 4 11-04-2005 , 11:41 AM

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Nice work Daan,
I agree with mhcannon on the proportions of king & queen and the knights shape, but I assume these are because of you're own design/vision of chess pieces (inside info user added image

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BTW the chessboard needs to be rotated, so that the righthand tower is on a white surface (used to play chess user added image

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greetz 4ng3l

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# 5 11-04-2005 , 01:26 PM

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Ok, I here's some more progress. I changed some model proportions (thx mhcannon for the tips), and some chess-technical issues (huh angel user added image

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Also I'm trying some things with rendering and all. As you can see I was messing around with some blinns user added image

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# 6 11-04-2005 , 03:28 PM

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Ide say it looks pretty decent now. Might want to replace the brown with a cleaner looking color. The brown with the white looks wrong IMO. Ide say a shiny black, or a gray.

The horse still needs a little tweaking. And the king usually has a small Cross on the top section of it. But not always.

Are you planning on animating it?

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# 7 11-04-2005 , 04:18 PM

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Yeah I'm going to remodel the knight later, not satisfied yet. This one was just a quick version that I created because I wanted to see the complete scene.
And I don't know about the king; a lot of these pieces are quite abstract, ie the rook should look more like a tower, but I choose to simplify those details.
I think I'm gonna make some kind of animation yes, haven't thought about that much.

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