Re: Playing with Blender
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2014 10:52 pm
Won't be done soon, but it's started......
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Re: Playing with Blender
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2014 8:15 pm
Oh nice, Curtis! It's a decent start.
Re: Playing with Blender
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 10:08 pm
With some textures... Still need to render the textures to a map, then add details and shadowing.
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Re: Playing with Blender
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2014 2:26 pm
Seems to be going well.
Re: Playing with Blender
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 11:23 am
Indeed; though slower than a snail 
Re: Playing with Blender
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2014 10:52 pm
Inspired by Daniel's new V&T equipment, I've dusted off my Caboose 9 model and started cleaning it up:
Maybe I can actually finish it this year 
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Re: Playing with Blender
Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 10:27 pm
Shadow test....
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Re: Playing with Blender
Posted: Sun May 11, 2014 10:41 am
Wow! Great job. 
Re: Playing with Blender
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 10:31 pm
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Re: Playing with Blender
Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 11:11 pm
This is great news. I have wanted a small flour mill for ages now, and you've certainly done justice to the quintessential flour mill here. Well done, man. Keep up the good work, and have fun while I run around like a chicken with its head cut off because school's out.Re: Playing with Blender
Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 11:17 pm
Thanks! I'm hoping to work my way through all the versions through time - at least up until 1950 - by October; although it'll probably take until after that to get them optimized for Trainz (fewer texture sheets; unique textures w/ baked AO, etc).
Enjoy your summer break!!
Enjoy your summer break!!
Re: Playing with Blender
Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2014 7:24 am
I sure will. 
Got a British loco uploading to the DLS and now updating another one to the same standards. Also getting YVRR #21 ready for textures. 
Hope you have a good summer(conveniently, today is the literal first day of summer) as well.
Got a British loco uploading to the DLS and now updating another one to the same standards. Also getting YVRR #21 ready for textures. Hope you have a good summer(conveniently, today is the literal first day of summer) as well.Re: Playing with Blender
Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 4:58 pm
Hey Curtis et al:
There's a program called Crazybump that y'all might be interested in. It creates displacement, specular and normal maps based on a diffuse texture, to good effect as shown here with a little test on YVRR #21:
http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2014/ ... 7ptqtv.png
The sort of wavy shine is the work of the specular map, which has noise automatically ingrained to order, and the incredibly convincing bolt line and smooth number plate are the work of the normal. Take a look at it, it's basically an easy, quick way to make things look spectacular.
There's a program called Crazybump that y'all might be interested in. It creates displacement, specular and normal maps based on a diffuse texture, to good effect as shown here with a little test on YVRR #21:
http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2014/ ... 7ptqtv.png
The sort of wavy shine is the work of the specular map, which has noise automatically ingrained to order, and the incredibly convincing bolt line and smooth number plate are the work of the normal. Take a look at it, it's basically an easy, quick way to make things look spectacular.
Re: Playing with Blender
Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2014 8:19 am
Thanks! I've used CrazyBump in the past, but I'm slow enough I don't get much done in the 30-day eval period (and I haven't convinced myself to spend the $99 for the registered version).
Every time I build a new machine, however, I try it out again
It really does do a much better job than the NVidia plug-in.
Curtis
Every time I build a new machine, however, I try it out again
It really does do a much better job than the NVidia plug-in.
Curtis
Re: Playing with Blender
Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2014 8:35 pm
More progress on the mill.....
I got some more pictures when I was down in Minden last weekend, which answered a few questions...
I got some more pictures when I was down in Minden last weekend, which answered a few questions...