rtrowbridge Posted May 19, 2010 Report Share Posted May 19, 2010 It has been too quiet around here the last couple of days, so I have uploaded three animations I did to Youtube. The first is a Rodeo Test I did that turned out pretty good. The second is an animation of Tobias Richter's USS Kelvin. I was able to get the Lightwave conversion input into EIAS with the UVs intact. The third is an animation of a ship taking off from a space station's hangar bay. The ship was created by Medjai, but I built the station. At some point, I want to replace all the lights with light fixtures lit by a single area light and attached to the lights with a selection set. This animation was used by a local middle school teacher who operated a space simulator for students. He used it to represent their space ship launching. I also did a flyby of all the planets along with many of the moons in our solar system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickaelBehn Posted May 19, 2010 Report Share Posted May 19, 2010 Awesome work. I really like them. I agree its been a bit quiet over here these days. Your Kevin3 is great but at first i thought the ship was upside down because the Main Deflector is on top and not at the bottom of the ship. for some reason that how i know the its orientation of an ST federation ship. :-) The rodeo test is nice as well. any way you could upload the project. Id love to see how you constructed the scene and got rodeo to work with all those elements. How bad was the render on this by the way ? DOnt worry if you dont want to upload the project. Im just very curious on how people build the scenes. helps me learn faster by seeing others techniques. thanks, Mick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtrowbridge Posted May 20, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2010 Mick, The Kelvin's design threw me a bit at first, but ended up being my favorite design from the new Star Trek movie. I'd be happy to share the marble project. It's about 6 megs. The system is not allowing me to attach the file though. (Tomas, is there a file size limit?) I just used phong shading for the animation and each frame took about 5 seconds to render using one core on my 1.83 GHz dual core laptop. Switching to raytraced shadows kicked the time up to 25 seconds per frame. The Rodeo calculation for 450 frames took about 45 seconds. Ross Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomas Egger Posted May 20, 2010 Report Share Posted May 20, 2010 Hey Ross, Wonderful you are doing Sci-Fi animations like these one.. I really enjoy to see them... Are you compressing the files, Its important.. do it.. if am I not wrong, our limit here is 9mb. Thanksss Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtrowbridge Posted May 20, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2010 Tomas, The zipped file is just under 6 megs. The actual project folder is about 10 megs. The FAC files are large. I just tried to attach a png file that was almost exactly 1 meg in size, but it wouldn't do it, either. The same file as a jpg seems to have attached just fine, though it is only 416 kb. Ross Hey Ross, Wonderful you are doing Sci-Fi animations like these one.. I really enjoy to see them... Are you compressing the files, Its important.. do it.. if am I not wrong, our limit here is 9mb. Thanksss Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomas Egger Posted May 21, 2010 Report Share Posted May 21, 2010 Hey Mick, Ross provide us his Marble Dynamic simulation test with Rodeo.. Im having prbs to upload the file.. will be soon Great test and WONDERFUL Star Trek Ship.. Thanksss Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtrowbridge Posted May 21, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2010 Tomas, Were you able to open the project? I just want to make sure the file wasn't corrupted somehow. thanks, Ross Hey Mick, Ross provide us his Marble Dynamic simulation test with Rodeo.. Im having prbs to upload the file.. will be soon Great test and WONDERFUL Star Trek Ship.. Thanksss Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomas Egger Posted May 22, 2010 Report Share Posted May 22, 2010 Hey Ross, I'm out of town this weekend, when I arrive at home on Monday, we will solve this puzzle.. Thanks a lot for your project... Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Johnston Posted May 22, 2010 Report Share Posted May 22, 2010 Ross, totally loved your animations, want to see more from everyone. We have a lot of users who seem to be shy about getting in here and posting so we all can get to know who does what how they use EIAS . There's a lot that sharing can do to help us all. Get out of your shells people , communication is a good thing. Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickaelBehn Posted May 22, 2010 Report Share Posted May 22, 2010 HI Tomas and Ross, Ross thank you for sharing. it will really be helpful. Tomas thank you for your help. i didn't realise it would be such a pain to get it uploaded. Im really looking forward to see how it was built up. all the best, Mick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomas Egger Posted May 24, 2010 Report Share Posted May 24, 2010 Ola my friends, Just arrived at home.. Forum “uploads†preference changed.. Mick Rodeo Project upload attatched here.. Thanksss Tom RodeoMarbleTest.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickaelBehn Posted May 25, 2010 Report Share Posted May 25, 2010 Ola my friends, Just arrived at home.. Forum “uploads†preference changed.. Mick Rodeo Project upload attatched here.. Thanksss Tom Awesome Thank you all Looking forward to taking it apart to see how it ticks :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtrowbridge Posted June 2, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 2, 2010 I've uploaded a couple more animations to youtube. The first was a test of environmental rotoscoping in EIAS v.8. I made the chrome object in about 5 minutes using Wings3d. The second was a test of using area light to light up the windows of a flying saucer. There are four separate windows in a selection set that the area light is set to use. It could use some fine tuning, but I am happy with the way the light plays out over the ship's panels. Ross Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomas Egger Posted June 2, 2010 Report Share Posted June 2, 2010 Ola Ross, You are doing excellent tests and having fun which is really important.. I want to see more testsssss Thankssss Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FelixCat Posted June 2, 2010 Report Share Posted June 2, 2010 Nice tests, Ross. I think something is weird in the first one, it seems a problem with the normals... or i need new glasses. FelixCat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomas Egger Posted June 3, 2010 Report Share Posted June 3, 2010 Hey Felix, I saw again, I think its only the dark reflection of the environment.. Thanksss Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtrowbridge Posted June 3, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2010 Tom, If Felix is looking at the dark, smooth areas between the spikes, you are correct. It is only dark reflections. Good eye! Ross Hey Felix, I saw again, I think its only the dark reflection of the environment.. Thanksss Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtrowbridge Posted June 3, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2010 Tomas asked that I try to upload an AVI file. Here is the Broadside animation I posted to youtube a little while ago. It looks like AVI files are now supported. Thanks, Tom...:) Ross Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Johnston Posted June 4, 2010 Report Share Posted June 4, 2010 Hi Ross I enjoy your tests hope others will do more of this kind of quick little tests Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtrowbridge Posted June 4, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2010 Mark, Thanks. They are fun to do. I swapped out the original 120 GB hard drive in my laptop for a 500 GB drive last night. Now I have some more room to expand. The second drive bay has a 160 GB drive in it (It's a big laptop!). I was down to less than 10 GB free on the 120 GB and 45 GB free on the 160 GB. It's nice to have a combined free space of about 425 GB now. Time to get busy... Ross Hi Ross I enjoy your tests hope others will do more of this kind of quick little tests Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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