Instead of worrying about Todt's Ferrari background, I'd be more concerned about the fact that this keeps Mosley's crew in power while only figurehead changes.
To me car looks fine apart from the weird wheel alignment. You want it to be the centerpiece of the scene, so it should stand out from the backround.
And speaking of backround, that's some ugly brickwork right there.
And speaking of backround, that's some ugly brickwork right there.
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For reflector planes to work, you also need to enable Global Illumination (which should be used anyways for this kind of scene)
Hmm.... it looks like your whole scene depends on a single lightsource which doesn't seem to be enough unless you crack it up way too high where hotspots become oversatured?
Another vote for RBR, while it occasionally looks little bit canned, it still feels right and contributes to overall immersion.
Uhm, there's no damage in TDU, visual or mechanical.
Uhm, there's no damage in TDU, visual or mechanical.
I'm not really sure that dark scenes like that with very little highlights work too well. Especially in the second render viewer's eyes are drawn to backround because it's much more pronounced while car is out of focus and blurry.
Edit: Choisen color is also problematic, brighter and more saturated color would make car much more visible while dark color depends on reflections.
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Crossfire/SLI is not really an option unless you're on unlimited budget, HD5870 is really fast single-gpu card and should run all games just fine until the next generation of cards roll out. It probably won't run Crysis2 at full details, but it's not very efficient to spend tons of money on computer so it can meet the requirements for one tech. demo.
Since the introduction of Intel's new CPU lineup, Q9550 prices have dropped a lot and it's probably the best option in ~200€ price range considering you don't have to break the bank for LGA775 motherboard and couple sticks of DDR2 ram. For gaming purposes, i7 would be overkill since there's very few CPU limited games.
Edit: By the way, what kind of system you currently have and what is actually broken?
It's waste of money to buy new computer everytime single piece of hardware breaks down, which doesn't happen very often.
Over the past 15 years, I've had 1 broken HDD and couple fans with worn-out bearings.
Since the introduction of Intel's new CPU lineup, Q9550 prices have dropped a lot and it's probably the best option in ~200€ price range considering you don't have to break the bank for LGA775 motherboard and couple sticks of DDR2 ram. For gaming purposes, i7 would be overkill since there's very few CPU limited games.
Edit: By the way, what kind of system you currently have and what is actually broken?
It's waste of money to buy new computer everytime single piece of hardware breaks down, which doesn't happen very often.
Over the past 15 years, I've had 1 broken HDD and couple fans with worn-out bearings.
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Phong is better suited for plastic/rubber materials, so you'll probably need to sharpen up the highlights a lot.
Even by those numbers, it's not capably of lifting even a skinny 6 years old.
Seems like a publicity stunt by father who probably was well aware of how much lift it could generate since it's the most important thing you need to know when designing something like this.
When up and running, energy output will be far greater than what is required to keep reactor running.
I strongly recommend searching for some training videos, not only just about cars but modeling in general. Written tutorials have that problem where you need to be able to perform most tasks on your own, otherwise the tutorial would be 50 pages long and no one wants to go through that. It can also lead to situation where you're just following orders and feeding in values given to you.
A car is not the easiest thing to model, smooth body panels require you to plan ahead to maintain smooth curvature and chamfered edges will give you all kinds of trouble that you need to go ahead and fix manually.
Just make four planes and match the size to with each image. Base blueprint is fairly good, scale is not 1:1 between all perspectives but it's close enough.
For an example, activate front viewport and make 505x367 plane and apply front.jpg on it as a texture (un-select two-sided option). If it's too big for the scale you're using, use 50,5x36,7 plane instead. Repeat the process for back, top and side planes.
When you're done, move planes away from the camera so you have some free space to work with and freeze them. If they go gray, go to freeze options and un-select "Show frozen in gray".
For an example, activate front viewport and make 505x367 plane and apply front.jpg on it as a texture (un-select two-sided option). If it's too big for the scale you're using, use 50,5x36,7 plane instead. Repeat the process for back, top and side planes.
When you're done, move planes away from the camera so you have some free space to work with and freeze them. If they go gray, go to freeze options and un-select "Show frozen in gray".
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Creature that evolution has taught to take care of it's personal hygiene receives a thumbs up from me. Some should learn from that but at the same time I think it would be disturbing to see people licking them self clean.
Creature that evolution has taught to take care of it's personal hygiene receives a thumbs up from me. Some should learn from that but at the same time I think it would be disturbing to see people licking them self clean.
There is no such thing as Rookie Series for Skip Barbers, it's a D-level championship that you can attend as a rookie with +4.0 SR.
In short, it does count and expect your certificate soon, got a Skippy certificate myself too
First thing I'd check is updating drivers, especially when yours are 5 months old. Can you describe what kind of problem you're experiencing with video playback?
I've heard all the cool people do rendering nowdays, so I decided to give it a try.
My first and probably last LFS render since I don't really like to do these using someone else's work. Besides, converting from blender to .obj format seems to break smoothing groups and UV mapping, fixing those takes some time and it's boring as hell. Couple small glitches and default wheels are ugly.
Rendered with Mental Ray
My first and probably last LFS render since I don't really like to do these using someone else's work. Besides, converting from blender to .obj format seems to break smoothing groups and UV mapping, fixing those takes some time and it's boring as hell. Couple small glitches and default wheels are ugly.
Rendered with Mental Ray
Wait what, setup options define the amount of fun you have in online racing sim? Well, somebody obviously forgot to show the memo to all those people racing and having fun in other sims with more realistic setup options or in fixed setup leagues.
What's your take on Scirocco, I've been under the impression that it will have more realistic setup options which do not allow you to chance everything in fine detail. Does that make it the enemy of fun?
Unfortunately I'm not familiar with Blender, but you should be able to figure it out by just experimenting. In situation like this where you're trying to find out what setting does what, it would be faster in terms of rendering time to just create a new scene with sphere and flat ground. Apply your mirror material to sphere and go messing around with settings and see what happens.
Although, in this case I would choose to just leave it for post-processing stage in Photoshop. Sometimes it's not worth spending too much time trying to create an effect in rendertime if it can be very easily be done later on in image editing program.
For mirror, you might want to redo the surface geometry so it's not completely flat. Real car mirrors are slightly bulged to give wide view.
Also experiment with the material, right now you have it set to 100% reflectivity which is probably bit too "perfect" mirror. Experiment with material and see if there's a way to add very subtle blur or fade to remove unnatural sharpness, just don't over do it.
Also experiment with the material, right now you have it set to 100% reflectivity which is probably bit too "perfect" mirror. Experiment with material and see if there's a way to add very subtle blur or fade to remove unnatural sharpness, just don't over do it.
Your ground materials seem to be very shiny and it kinda takes the attention off from cars themself. Also check if there's some settings in the renderer to smooth those shadows.
And Shadowww, go spam your offtopic nonsense somewhere else.
If you only want to do renders, Blender will work just fine.
3dsmax is nice package that can do plenty of things, but it also makes it fairly clumsy especially from modeling point of view.
That's entirely up to which components break first and if overload/overheat protection kicks in before any damage is done.
That calculator seems fairly accurate, but the problem is that there's so many PSU's for sale that cannot deliver what they promise.
Especially Newegg seems to be littered with those clone brand units that I wouldn't put even on secondary comp, let alone on gaming rig with powerful graphics card.
Especially Newegg seems to be littered with those clone brand units that I wouldn't put even on secondary comp, let alone on gaming rig with powerful graphics card.
That's entirely possible, I hopped on Skippy practise session today and couldn't even stay on track for a whole lap to post even a single laptime.
Next one went better though, claimed the fastest lap for that session.
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