awesome FAT_CAP, and not too over-detailed

uhh I've really been meaning to get back into the whole community and work on my own stuff for a change. Here's one thing I've been up to:




It's an approximation to realtime radiosity on the vertex fragment. Proof of concept in 3dsmax, it's cheap and quick to set up, limitation is it's only lum reflection, so basically it's grayscale radiosity (no colour bleed). Still... it's realtime and cheap

more work on this. does anyone know of any animation specific boards besides 11second club?

http://vimeo.com/2704562

jstoner:

http://www.animationforum.net/forum/

and there's a finished animation, and a wip animation section over at cgtalk...

FAT_CAP looks great. just wondering if the chains were a little on the thin side

Thanks guys!

RUZ - thanks mate. Yeah I totally agree about some of the chains looking too piddly- they lost too much of there form when subdivided- I'll beef them up when I get onto the low poly version

Fat_cap: I really like the orc, he's sculpted very well and I like his design

nice fatcap!


my pc almost caught fire, it started ticking, screen went all blue and green, mouse kept clicking and it almost exploded. (thought it was the pornz that finaly got fatal)

i took a look, and the coolingribs were hot .. damn, i think if i turned off the lights, it would be glowing orange from heat.

behold! what happens if you forget... for quite some ... really






i know it doesnt belong here, but it might save your pc from exploding.

Holy shit! Not even mine gets that clogged up! How long it been since it was last cleaned out?

maybe a year or so, cant remember

I blow it with condensed air every few months but even if i forget about it it wont get that bad :O

That's not dust, that's weed smoke.

thats a nice photo btw!
nice lighting and focus!

Originally Posted by |Buddy|

That's not dust, that's weed smoke.

Uh oh...gotta check mine too.

Looks to me like some claymation character got sucked in.

nice work JIstyles, no idea how that works, can you change the bounced light intensity to be brighter?

wippity wip

Originally Posted by almighty_gir

wippity wip

Very similar to Raziel from Soul Reaver minus a few things. I loved that game haha.

similar indeed...

Originally Posted by Rens

maybe a year or so, cant remember

I havent looked at mine in about 3 years... I probably should :/

Originally Posted by almighty_gir

similar indeed...

Well I understand that's the point...but I see a few things that aren't really..."Raziel-like" ^.^

Ged: yeah, distance and intensity all fully controllable. Hell even the reflection aperture can be changed.

some more random tech I've been working on:
Generalized translucency (correct,cheap, and can be used in a fully generalised lighting model).


and another "faux radiosity" technique... this one is per pixel but takes a little prepass... essentially replaces lightmaps though since it's all dynamic

By robomaniac
my 5 cents here

J.I.Styles, i've always found your work to be insanely cool. the techniques you're coming out with are great, and they always bring a new flare to any work i apply them to.

BUT, i'm currently using the Shader-FX plugin for max. and because its UI is so easy to get to grips with, i'd hate to move back to max' default material editor. do you know if there's an easy way to integrate your shaders into Shader-FX?

Originally Posted by Medestruit

Well I understand that's the point...but I see a few things that aren't really..."Raziel-like" ^.^

He has hands instead of claws.

Originally Posted by Blenderhead

He has hands instead of claws.

I thought that at first, but if you look at Gir's model, there are only 3 "fingers"...they just look finger like, instead of fat spikey appendages like Raziel.