Energize?

Update: 5-11

Something of a personal challenge…  The personnel transporter.  Just the basics so far.  I did what I promised I wouldn’t and actually modeled the features on the pads since I was getting miserable results with my texturing attempts.  I paid for it with a 3 hour render, but I sure like the results.  I chose to only use one layer of the honeycomb mesh to see how it affected render speeds;  also, only a translucent purple backing with traditional spotlights.

A second attempt with a self-luminous UV background behind the honeycomb (the one that worked so well in the Miranda cargo transporter) didn’t quite  work the way I’d hoped.

I love the improvements I made for this one on the pads’ color and lighting but the background just went a little overboard.  I’m thinking it wasn’t suited to a curved surface, and was almost certainly too close to the honeycomb mesh for proper blurring.  I’ll chalk it up as another learning experience and I have another image rendering as I write this, faking the honeycomb with a completely 2D textured backing… we shall see how it turns out.

Update: 5-11

2D honeycomb background 2 hours…

Versus 2 layed 3D honeycomb mesh.  7 hours.  Thankfully I was asleep.

I like it but I’m not sure it is worth the time.

~ by starstation on May 10, 2009.