Digital Art Zone

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Methinks you are taxing the bu..er to the limit!

Dust bunnies can be reached - my last incident when the PC went bowel upwards was the gunk behind the fan - looked all clean to me, but when my computer guy opened up - yikes!

This is what you get from living at the coast - humidity + dust =gunky slurry on the back of the fan:(

Gunky slurry   Not encountered that I must confess.  I did remove all the fans and cleaned behind them where possible. 

So… again as a bit of a break from repairing twisted verts on my pods, I’ve tweaked a bit more the main hull by introducing itty bitty ; small and medium/large sized elevators. 

In the bottom shot, I have untwisted the relevant verts takes about 3 hours +/-  and I’m replacing the missing parts.  Now back to the repairs six done two to go. 

Edit:  One to go; last one was a real pig. 

Good grief, I’ve been tearing my hair out trying to repair the last pod.  I tried every this way and that and back over again and again and again.  Tried re-doing the bridging.  Nope.  repeated so many times I lost count. 

Then tried extruding.  Nope.  Etc.  Gradually reduced down the faults until two areas left.  See figs;

Eventually heaved the model around until I found gaps appearing where they shouldn’t, even when bridging. All flaming day I struggled, but all fine now. 

All those domes pods and cities and buildings reminds me of a anime called Macross Frontier.
Too huge for me, great work Redsquare.

Thanks for your comments A3DLover.

Macross Frontier.

Umm, never heard of it I’m afraid, so you have the advantage of me.  May be when I finish this I’ll go a hunting and see if it is still about.  A least I can now get on with filling the pods now I’ve sorted them out. 

Hello Red.
You know my proverbial ability to use the English language ....
For this reason, if I ask you very briefly, what is it?

For this reason, if I ask you very briefly, what is it?

  Ha bl**dy ha. 

Now there’s the rub.    Think self sufficiency; 

RedSquare - 14 December 2012 02:21 PM

For this reason, if I ask you very briefly, what is it?

  Ha bl**dy ha. 

Now there’s the rub.    Think self sufficiency;

Forgive me.
I did not understand.
No problem.

Bye

Oh knickers!  the texture has too low a resolution. 

OK After alterations and additions to my recreation pod mesh, I have now started to plant it. Phase I completed for better or worse. 

The first is just a screen grab of the boundary boxes. Makes the real one seem a tad nude

Hmm! Disappointment! Zeroed in to the ground level and I seem to have lost my ripples in the sand. I pretty sure it is because I UV’d the revised mesh slightly differently. Bummer, not sure I can face another 6 hours instancing an alternative mesh. Either that or my lens focus point is all wrong.  Or both.    Unlike the second shot.

Right I’ve found my ripples plus the odd reversed normal but I can live with the latter. After the first shot I doubled the size reduction, whilst not so noticeable better for scale I think.

Start planting tomorrow methinks.

Very impressive, Red - what are you using to make the terrain?

Cheers Roy

World Machine - http://www.world-machine.com/

Fortunately the latest version outputs to .obj Yay!  Even the free version, whilst my earlier paid for version doesn’t.  So I downloaded it.  It’s a brilliant proggy although in theory you can model a whole world the output of the freebee is downsized restricted to a tile 500x500 .  Nothing unusual in that of course after all it’s a freebee.

So this is what 537,817 instances look like.