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Re:Resulting format...
I wonder what these objects look like when exported to an object file. Will they still look as natural if you import them into your favorite Quake map or blender world?
Here's a shot of a bunny rabbit I was playing with imported into Maya. I threw a sphere eye into the Teddy mesh for giggles. Teddy saves OBJ files (OBJ is a standard text file format created by Alias - now Autodesk). Almost any 3D software can import OBJ files including Blender. Teddy creates poly tris, so you might get some game tools to compile raw teddy meshes if you dared.
It seems that the meshes it creates are pretty symetrical with a middle row of vertices. This means that what you create can be cut in half and mirrored to create truly symetrical meshes easily. In my bunny example, I only created one ear so that I can just duplicate it on the other side for matching ears (not done in the screenshot).
The meshes Teddy creates do need cleanup though as it wastes a lot of polys where things converge (look at the bottom tip of the bunny's nose). I would consider Teddy a decent tool to brainstorm ideas, however there will still be plenty of work to do inside your 3D software of choice. Using it as a tool to create organic primitives is another option. I'm going to keep it in the toolbox, but it's not a replacement for other software.
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Re:The Dark Lord of the SithHere you go. Just whipped it up. There's two versions:
DarthGatus01.jpg
DarthGatus02.jpgThe first one turned out the best.
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Re:The Dark Lord of the SithHere you go. Just whipped it up. There's two versions:
DarthGatus01.jpg
DarthGatus02.jpgThe first one turned out the best.
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I've got the perfect place...
1. Place art here.
2. Place an ambiguously worded article on Slashdot to avoid the usual front page story slashdotting.
3. Know that someone will find your hidden stash (we are geeks) and post the location of aforementioned art within the comments, and it will safely be disseminated without a typical slashdotting.
4.
5. Profit!
-Adam -
I've got the perfect place...
1. Place art here.
2. Place an ambiguously worded article on Slashdot to avoid the usual front page story slashdotting.
3. Know that someone will find your hidden stash (we are geeks) and post the location of aforementioned art within the comments, and it will safely be disseminated without a typical slashdotting.
4.
5. Profit!
-Adam -
Re:Great
You're neglecting the Wow Factor. Wow Factor is street cred among most geeks. As an avid case modder (I re-use old parts though, I usually don't buy new), half the fun is having someone say "that's a computer?". (Please be gentle to my very low bandwidth - personal DSL - server) You can see two basic examples of my own work making odd firewalls here. They're nothing special, but I get the "that's a computer" stuff all the time about these two and they aren't even the good ones, they just happen to be the two I made for my own use.
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Re:There is a fine line betweenUnfortunately, the more people that pull the "Terrorist" card for an excuse, the less is will be listened to when it's real. (pleae note, I'm not right wing or republican) So, when it's real, the media will demand to see the information anyway citing the other jerks who used it as a bluff (including many politicians). Ironically, they are slowly creating a potential threat to national security by watering down the occasional importance of the "terrorist" card.
By the way, are "terrorist" cards a method of divination? (thanks for the inspiration dude!)
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Re:Renaming
say Microsoft wanted Outlook to have some special capabilities in the operating system
Then you would be saying the truth. Outlook, and the rest of Office, register themselves extensively into the OS. To see what I mean, grab scanreg.exe (if my site goes down, look on Google) and run the command "scanreg outlook". It will show literally hundreds of entries in the registry for both Outlook and Outlook Express (on my machine 1157 occurances). For comparison if you have Norton Anti-Virus (which should register itself extensively into the OS), try the command "scanreg norton" and note the 150 or so results (163 on my machine). I'm betting more than Outlook will eventually crash with constant use of the machine and a re-named outlook.exe. -
Re:Graphics glitch?I assume you're talking about this bright spot on the roof and how it seems to glow, but gets occluded by shadow. From a 3D perspective and what I know it could be any of the following, in least to most likely order:
- The level of detail on the polygons is changing and we just happen to catch it at a long ugly spot. There is no odd morphing or shifting of polygons, so this is REALLY unlikely.
- The lighting engine or visibility engine is ignoring those polygons completely, as if they are "detail" brushes or some other odd type of brush (an oversite or accepted flaw by the level designer or modeller)
- Reversed Normals (the triangle surfaces are facing inward instead of outward - inside out)
- But the most likely is that those polygons have some sort of reflection or environment mapping on them. If no light hits a reflective surface, it will not reflect any light.
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Re:Graphics glitch?I assume you're talking about this bright spot on the roof and how it seems to glow, but gets occluded by shadow. From a 3D perspective and what I know it could be any of the following, in least to most likely order:
- The level of detail on the polygons is changing and we just happen to catch it at a long ugly spot. There is no odd morphing or shifting of polygons, so this is REALLY unlikely.
- The lighting engine or visibility engine is ignoring those polygons completely, as if they are "detail" brushes or some other odd type of brush (an oversite or accepted flaw by the level designer or modeller)
- Reversed Normals (the triangle surfaces are facing inward instead of outward - inside out)
- But the most likely is that those polygons have some sort of reflection or environment mapping on them. If no light hits a reflective surface, it will not reflect any light.
