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3D Studio Max
Big scaled model
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10 Aug 2005I'm interested in big scale scene these times.
Here are some examples
http://muharraqi-studios.com/durrat/x2.jpg
http://www.raph.com/3dartists/artgaller ... hp?aid=524
http://www.cgarchitect.com/3dawards/nom ... aerial.jpg
http://www.laberge.qc.ca/fred/photos/1- ... ty_Art.jpg
I contact muharraqi, and he said he used a awesomely big images he painted (sand, grass, water, etc).
I think the 3dartist from raph made the same thing.
But Fred St-arnaud, made only a background (as he didn't want to anime ti)
So I'm looking for some tips about it, or others examples, about big landscape for project at theses scale, with animation. I think the best way is to make by example a 4000X4000 photoshop image and maybe everything, from textures, satellites, etc. and apply the image on a the low meshed landscape.
Looking fir tips!
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10 Aug 2005Holy crap those are cool images! But you're saying some of them are projected geometry? Hmmm....
As for your problem....I don't really understand....you're saying you want to learn how to project a 4000x4000 map onto low poly objects? Or are you asking if you should model low-poly and leave the rest for high-res texture work? -
10 Aug 2005You can see come wire there, didn't find the wireframe for the 2 others project. You can see for the water by example, the mesh is really simple.
I think they used all the same techniques: the landscape mesh is simple but the map is really well detailed. I just want to know what you think about it, the techniques, the performance because of the large map, etc (as I didn't see a lot of project with a complex map like). I don't have specific question, but if someone saw a making of or something like that about big scaled model like that, I would be happy.
http://muharraqi-studios.com/wire-d.jpg
http://www.laberge.qc.ca/fred/photos/1- ... ingof1.jpg
I'm planing to make another big project, more than my last castle, I've already begin a little, will take a long time.
The theme: City utopia. (It would look a bit like the image from raph, but I'll focus more on the city and less on the landscape.)
But I want to make some camera animations maybe, and I'll have to make an island. I found a real place where I want to put it, I'll just change some things but the scale is perfect.
This is this part.
http://www.davidlavoie.net/bodega.jpg
I would like make a cool job on the landscape. Maybe the thing is I should start painting and if I have some question, I'll post them. -
10 Aug 2005ok, first questions. I downloaded some satellite image from Wind Nasa.
Do you know some website with cool aerial or satelite image hi-resolution? -
10 Aug 2005http://earth.google.com/
not sure if u can actually take screenshots or anything though. -
10 Aug 2005I think your best bet would be to look towards nasa.
In all cases you will have copyright issues but it going towards non-commercial personal artwork I don't know the laws...
http://maps.google.com/ has some great satellite imagery if you are going to go the google way.
google + nasa are the only ones I can think of. -
11 Aug 2005I found a 600mb total, tiff of the earth here
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/
All I ha to do is ask for permission via email and they gave me access to a ftp
otherwise there are tons of sattelite view of earth regions -
30 Aug 2005Another cool image
http://www.pixel-storm.de/upload/images ... ulf_01.jpg
I talked to this guy and he sent me a sample of his map. He uses a big 5000X4000 images of the ground with grass, road, sand, water, etc. -
30 Aug 2005Wow! Talk about detail!
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30 Aug 2005holy comolli!
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30 Aug 2005yes, the map could look a bit like this, but this one is a photo
http://www.correctionhistory.org/html/c ... rhart2.jpg (this is only an example as I didn't ask to this guy if I could post his work here)
So I'll use a lot autoCAD for drawing the plan and then I'll paint it on photoshop
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