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From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 26 Jun 2000 17:37:54
Message: <3957CD34.32945C23@schunter.etc.tu-bs.de>
Jeff Lee wrote:

[...]

Especially the lighting seems extremely realistic to me, outstanding
work!

> 
> > have you attempted the iris or the gate effects?
> 
> It is capable of producing the rippling "water" effect, but I haven't
> added in the iris or worked on the "whoosh" yet.  (All the chevrons are
> independently animatable and lightable, and of course the glyph ring
> turns.  It can also be set to resemble the prop from the original movie,
> which was slightly different from the one on the TV series.)
> 

I think, the water effect would be to much for it (would hide the nice
back wall by the way :-)

I remember a lot of steam around the gate during motion.  You could try
that.

> > how long does it take you to do a project?
> 
> Depends on the scope.  In this case, the Stargate itself took about two
> weeks, and the reproduction of the set took about a month and a half,
> whenever I could squeeze in a couple of hours at night.
> 

It's really amazing detail, is everything taken from "reality" or did
you model some things from imagination ?

Christoph

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Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
Homepage: http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/


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