About seeing the inside of the rocket: when remaking these scenes, I really wanted to have consistency between the inside and the outside of the locations. I think that seeing the inside of places you can go to from the outside helps the immersion, and creating a believable environment. It's something I'd like to be systematic. Similarly, I'll import the other shops into the big scene. The weapon shop made inside the bus will be challenging, because the inside doesn't match the outside at all (in the original scenes). I'll have to make a bunch of revisions. The downside of this method is the size of the outdoor scene, which begins to be considerably huge. I think my object count is around 5000, and the Blender file size around 150 MbNice work Mayo.
it's wonderfull to see the inside of the rocket from the other scene
With regards to lighting, Midgar is a funny place...
It's always dark and cloudy, no 'sunny' or daylight picture exists, except the one with Red looking from a distance..
So if you look at the top plate, it is already very dark. You can imagine when having a plate above you, at about 50 meters,
there's not a lot of light left. I would say use any trick at your disposal to balance between reality and fantasy. That would
mean, use any shortcut to lower noise and rendering-times :
As for imageshack, I switched over a long time ago to flickr, works fine for me.
Anyway, I hope you don't feel too lonely here, as I know, many are watching us....
Keep it up, and enjoy as you go.
(and I have no particle system!) I also intend to carry out something similar for Aerith's house. That is, to the exception of Aerith's house and the Church. In my dream-remake, there would be variations in light to account for the passing of time, and getting all the Midgar scenes atop the Plate could get a very different feel if done during daytime.Haha, well you guys do do some pretty awesome work. I regret that I haven't had the time to properly learn Blender and do some work myself. I wanted to last semester and ended up putting in extra time learning After Effects for a class.Anyway, I hope you don't feel too lonely here, as I know, many are watching us....
.Well, just so you know: we have some 650 scenes left to do, so it's never too late to start learning and help us
Good to know lol. I'm trying to learn a bunch of stuff in Maya, mostly objects and weapons right now and character models soon. I'll see what I can do to contribute when I'm ready for something as advanced as this. At least do a few to really learn landscapes. People really underestimate how intricate landscape modeling is.Well, just so you know: we have some 650 scenes left to do, so it's never too late to start learning and help us
Well, whenever you feel like modelling field screens, we'll be happy to see your contribution. When that time comes, I recommend you check out my shortlist of "Scenes for newbies" that I drafted in the "beginner eager to learn" thread. They're mostly small indoor scenes, I would not advise taking a landscape scene right away. SpooX and I know that nature modelling is really challenging. Besides, it's also among the most demanding in terms of computational resources (particles systems everywhere and crazy poly counts, among other things).
So far, everybody has been doing their own textures. However, there's a bit of consistency because most of our textures come from cgtextures.com. That being said, SpooX and I were just speaking of sharing resources: it would be indeed much better if we pool textures and maps. At the moment we have no organization whatsoever regarding this topic, maybe it's time to get started. The file repository may be a good platform for sharing. In addition, we could benefit from the efforts of 2D artists who wouldn't be involved in 3d modelling.
