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General => Off-Topic => Topic started by: sam on 2006-05-03, 07:56:28 PM
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I downloaded a 3D Animation program www.anim8or.com (http://www.anim8or.com) and have been fooling around with for a while now figuring out how to do stuff. It's going to take me quite a while to get as good as most of the people out there using the program (all their models are amazing) so I decided to try some simple non-realistic type thing. I made this little ball and started adding leaves to make it look like a pineapple but thats not working too well.....so, what kind of fruit should it be? Or, what should it be. What can I add to it that is simple but makes it look like something?
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There's kind of a resemblance to these images of balsam apples:
http://www.lamartin.com/farm/images/plants/wf_49.jpg (http://www.lamartin.com/farm/images/plants/wf_49.jpg)
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/19852/ (http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/19852/)
Also kind of resembles this image of a Rollinia:
http://www.capetrib.com.au/rollinia.htm (http://www.capetrib.com.au/rollinia.htm)
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Wow...those are some pretty freaky fruits...hehe. Don't think I could do them. I made this though:
I shall call it....Mutant Pea...muahahahaha
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The first one does bear some similarity to a durian. Maybe you could turn it into one if you make the spikes taller or something?
Decent durian image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Durian.png
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I just tried to make the spikes bigger. After I selected alll the faces and clicked peak faces I remembered that I had already subdivided the faces a couple times. So the fruit has about 10000 faces that my comp was trying to peak, and then......Non-Responsive Program...hehe
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It's been a long time since I tried anim8or. I wonder if it's added any interesting new features in the past couple years. Does it inter-operate at all with POV-Ray these days by any chance? Or can it generate images as good as those generated by POV-Ray maybe even without using POV-Ray? (Like, can it create glass spheres that distort what's on the other side?)
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I dont think it has anything to do with POV-Ray. About the glass balls http://anim8or.com/misc/christmas/Ornaments.jpg (http://anim8or.com/misc/christmas/Ornaments.jpg) Not exactly what you mean but close.
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Keep in mind when you're making things like fruit in that first picture is that it is just fruit and probably doesn't need a couple thousand of poly's. Even with something complicated like a pineapple or those other fruits people were talking about, all the detail can come from the texture and the model itself can be about 50 poly's. Yes, things are getting better where the game can handle millions of poly's and you can budget 1000 poly's for objects, but if you save 950 poly's on something simple like a pineapple, you can use that 950 poly's on something more important.
One of my old roommates who was working with Maya was so proud of himself when he made a screwdriver in 1800 poly's. I just kind of looked at him and told him that I would be fired if I did something that dumb.
Sorry, mini rant over...
Just to show you can do a lot with 50 poly's, textures, and they may look blocky up close but not in the game, here are a few examples:
Orange(48 poly's)
scene they're used in (only pictures I have of them in game that I have at the moment)
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yah, I'm realizing things like this now. Although, I have nothing to make 3D games with, so I am just drawing stuff. I re-did my entire site today and will be adding lots of 3D pics in a gallery, and I will have a "submit a pic form".
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one more thing, What do you guys use to make good textures?
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Check it out
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h228/sam_46/scratfull.png (http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h228/sam_46/scratfull.png)
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hehehe... i actually use paint! textures get distorted anyway...