Author Topic: New Field backgrounds/CG Cutscenes thread (Read 180997 times)

Kudistos Megistos · « **Reply #350 on:** 2010-04-06 05:24:12 »

Not bad so far, but I think it should be a bit dirtier and grimier; at the moment it's a little too clean for a Midgar train.

KnifeTheSky77 · « **Reply #351 on:** 2010-04-06 05:31:18 »

Lookin good. Im not sure how far you are going to work on the crates and floor but they should look pretty dirty.

sl1982 · « **Reply #352 on:** 2010-04-06 06:30:49 »

Quote from: Kudistos Megistos on 2010-04-06 05:24:12

Not bad so far, but I think it should be a bit dirtier and grimier; at the moment it's a little too clean for a Midgar train.

Is this based on what you see in the original image or what you think a midgar train should look like. Because i do not see much dirt and grime in the original.

Kudistos Megistos · « **Reply #353 on:** 2010-04-06 09:57:37 »

It's not dirty in the sense that there are big patches of mud everywhere, but I think the original looks like it has seen better days. It's dirty in the sense tat it doesn't look like anything gets cleaned or looked after and nothing shines very much.

If you look at the two pics next to each other, it becomes clear that the original train looks like no-one has taken care of it. It's a little darker, the metal looks less uniform and more imperfections, and there are quite a few blotches of dark grey on the metal, especially on the pieces of metal that connect the sides of the car to the ceiling. Dirty and grimy describes the feel of the place as much as the actual amount of dirt.

Timu Sumisu · « **Reply #354 on:** 2010-04-06 12:36:57 »

SL, I dont know the maya interface fer this stuff, but in blender you can offset textures just plopped on, as well as adjust in other ways how they're mapped to an object, that could help the uniformity (i imagine maya can do it too

)

Also, You can probably put additional layers of texture on. Just a random gradient to create inconsistency in the metal (map this texture differently to the first). Dirt and grime layers can go on too.

Hellbringer616 · « **Reply #355 on:** 2010-04-06 12:42:49 »

Looking at a side by side i can see the bars could be a tad thicker, end of the train needs to be a tad darker, Otherwise, fantastic job man! even if you just toss that image in game i'd be happy

pyrozen · « **Reply #356 on:** 2010-04-06 21:17:49 »

Quote from: Timu Sumisu on 2010-04-06 12:36:57

SL, I dont know the maya interface fer this stuff, but in blender you can offset textures just plopped on, as well as adjust in other ways how they're mapped to an object, that could help the uniformity (i imagine maya can do it too )

Also, You can probably put additional layers of texture on. Just a random gradient to create inconsistency in the metal (map this texture differently to the first). Dirt and grime layers can go on too.

what he said.

sl1982 · « **Reply #357 on:** 2010-04-07 15:18:41 »

Any better?

Covarr · « **Reply #358 on:** 2010-04-07 17:43:33 »

YES! That is looking fantastic!

BlitzNCS · « **Reply #359 on:** 2010-04-07 20:52:13 »

Quote from: Covarr on 2010-04-07 17:43:33

YES! That is looking fantastic!

This

Also, I have literally just realised how different hi-poly texturing is to low-poly D:

Too much Crackage?

pyrozen · « **Reply #360 on:** 2010-04-07 21:49:28 »

wow sl, that looks heaps better! can't wait to see it in action.

AlbusJC · « **Reply #361 on:** 2010-04-07 22:46:23 »

in my opinion the back door should be a little more dark.

Bosola · « **Reply #362 on:** 2010-04-08 00:20:04 »

Is there a broad, overarching principle behind 'redesign' decisions? Or are we just going with whatever has the most visual appeal in any given case?

sl1982 · « **Reply #363 on:** 2010-04-08 03:42:20 »

Quote from: Bosola on 2010-04-08 00:20:04

Is there a broad, overarching principle behind 'redesign' decisions? Or are we just going with whatever has the most visual appeal in any given case?

Nothing very specific. Given the very low res originals it is hard to discern many visual details so we have to make it up as it goes. So basically what we think looks good. I guess that is the problem with people texturing their own work. There will be no consistency between the different modellers.

Oh and disregard the back wall on the above image. It needs alot more work.

KnifeTheSky77 · « **Reply #364 on:** 2010-04-08 04:19:34 »

Quote from: NCS on 2010-04-07 20:52:13

Too much Crackage?

There is never enough.
or rather, assuming that picture is a piece of a building in junon, a place where road literally shoots out of the ground to protect the buildings,
it would seem logical to say that the cracks would be minimal or unminimal?. It looks good nonetheless. Some of the larger holes look like gun wounds.

BlitzNCS · « **Reply #365 on:** 2010-04-08 20:56:47 »

D:
Guys, Bad news.
I was trying to get my OSX/windows thing working and well, I installed a bootloader onto my Windows partition, where I kept all my stuff.
Only problem is, Now I can't boot into that partition, and according to OSX, it's slightly corrupted. Anyone know of any way at all to recover stuff from a corrupted NTFS formatted harddrive from OSX? To be honest I'm willing to go the whole hog and install linux if someone knows a way it'll help.

I might be out of action for a good while because of this, and unless I can recover stuff, I've more than likely lost all the stuff I had on it, including all my contributions to this project (Not as if there was much anyway)

KnifeTheSky77 · « **Reply #366 on:** 2010-04-08 21:23:19 »

you overwrote the bootloader? If you have windows 6 or 7 and maybe 5,
the install disc can build you a fresh bootloader.

BlitzNCS · « **Reply #367 on:** 2010-04-08 21:32:32 »

Nono, if i just overwrote the bootloader, it wouldn't be unreadable via mac. That's irrelevant anyway - It's a laptop, and as such, it didn't come with the vista disc, So I can't even reinstall windows and format that partition.

Hellbringer616 · « **Reply #368 on:** 2010-04-08 22:04:21 »

Quote from: NCS on 2010-04-08 21:32:32

Nono, if i just overwrote the bootloader, it wouldn't be unreadable via mac. That's irrelevant anyway - It's a laptop, and as such, it didn't come with the vista disc, So I can't even reinstall windows and format that partition.

Put laptop in drive of another computer? and or boot to a Linux CD and access Windows partition, back up data then reload windows?

BlitzNCS · « **Reply #369 on:** 2010-04-08 22:15:20 »

Yeah, I'm trying to do the linux thing now (although with a ~~legitimate~~ copy of Win7 instead)
I'll never be able to get vista back though - unless the "restore factory defaults" thing which I used to use to reinstall vista is transferrable. I'm not sure about this.

Hellbringer616 · « **Reply #370 on:** 2010-04-08 22:46:33 »

No i don't believe it is

BlitzNCS · « **Reply #371 on:** 2010-04-08 23:27:15 »

Currently Typing from Ubuntu - It's a lot better than I thought it would be.

At any rate, as soon as I figure out how to try recovering stuff from corrupted volumes on ubuntu, I'll get back to you guys aout how much stuff I've lost - I know I'm getting really off-topic here.

craziinova · « **Reply #372 on:** 2010-04-08 23:48:00 »

You really managed to rape yourself didn't you, Neo...

Look familiar?

BlitzNCS · « **Reply #373 on:** 2010-04-08 23:59:17 »

Yeah, I totally did D:
Linux is telling me that the disk isn't even corrupt. But I go into it and it just looks like a fresh install of vista - none of my stuff's there. This Pretty much means I'mma just have to reformat and lose everything, which is totally crap.

...That's the Temple of the Ancients, Isn't it? Looking epic so far

sl1982 · « **Reply #374 on:** 2010-04-09 00:04:37 »

Did you lose junon as well?