Relax, he's more scared of you than you are of him.

This is almost done. I thought I'd ask for opinions, comments and
suggestions before fixing up the media sampling (notice the bad interaction
between the two containers) and rerendering.

Clouds are made with almost exactly the same method as gilles tran's fast
clouds.

 - Slime
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I love it. Very eerie. Only one suggestion, maybe the
iris could be a more complex pattern, and also the
spots on the alien. There is a contrast between the
realism of the landscape and the detail of the alien.
That may be intentional, in which case I'm just full
of crap again ;-)
Harold

"Slime" <slm### [at] slimelandcom> wrote in message
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> Relax, he's more scared of you than you are of him.
>
> This is almost done. I thought I'd ask for opinions, comments and
> suggestions before fixing up the media sampling (notice the bad
interaction
> between the two containers) and rerendering.
>
> Clouds are made with almost exactly the same method as gilles tran's fast
> clouds.
>
>  - Slime
> [ http://www.slimeland.com/ ]
>
>
>
>
>

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Very reminiscent of the kind of cover art you would have found on the old
scifi pulp mags. Looks cool. One thing..l the cracks in the ground look
kinda of fake. More like an image_map than a bump or true cracking. You
might want to adjust them, making them a bit deeper, or adjust the lighting.

David
a.k.a. Witherin

"Slime" <slm### [at] slimelandcom> wrote in message
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> Relax, he's more scared of you than you are of him.
>
> This is almost done. I thought I'd ask for opinions, comments and
> suggestions before fixing up the media sampling (notice the bad
interaction
> between the two containers) and rerendering.
>
> Clouds are made with almost exactly the same method as gilles tran's fast
> clouds.
>
>  - Slime
> [ http://www.slimeland.com/ ]
>
>
>
>
>

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"David Heys" <sou### [at] gcinet> wrote in message
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> Very reminiscent of the kind of cover art you would have found on the old
> scifi pulp mags. Looks cool. One thing..l the cracks in the ground look
> kinda of fake.

I agree about the cracks. They look too deep to be bump mapped. Scaling them
down would make them look not so deep and you could get away with the bump
map easier.

I also think you need some kinda structure where the green gas is escaping.
Something like a small fissure?

Oh and with all that green gas escaping I think it would be cool if the
coulds had some green swirled in. Maybe even other colors. It would make it
feel more like a different planet to me.

Corey

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Is that smoke coming up from the creature, or a darker cloud? The white
clouds look very good!

The light on the creature suggests there's a strong light close to the
cameraman, what could it be?

But the clouds don't light up the ground as much as I would expect even on
an alien planet (if the laws of physics are the same).. On the other hand,
it will wash out the contrast in this scene, if you reduce the shadows.. So
realism probably won't be good here. The ground texture would have to be
substancially different.. Never mind, the balance of light between the
ground and clouds are right.


- Hugo

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Those are great clouds. One thing the alien needs, since he seem to be 
smart, he needs a backpack or something indicating he's part of an 
intelligent species. Or does he just look smart?

~Sam Benge

Slime wrote:

> Relax, he's more scared of you than you are of him.
> 
> This is almost done. I thought I'd ask for opinions, comments and
> suggestions before fixing up the media sampling (notice the bad interaction
> between the two containers) and rerendering.
> 
> Clouds are made with almost exactly the same method as gilles tran's fast
> clouds.
> 
>  - Slime
> [ http://www.slimeland.com/ ]
> 
> 
> 
> 
>

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> I agree about the cracks. They look too deep to be bump mapped. Scaling
them
> down would make them look not so deep and you could get away with the bump
> map easier.


I agree with both of you. I just found that this is partly caused by a
problem with normal accuracy (bug posted to p.b-t, go confirm it for me if
it's really a bug =) ), so I'm using a workaround now and working on
improving the normal. Hopefully it'll be better next time around.

> I also think you need some kinda structure where the green gas is
escaping.
> Something like a small fissure?

Actually, there is, but it just looks like a shadow =) I might work that
into the function of the ground itself rather than using a prism cut out of
the ground, since that obviously looks unrealistic.

> Oh and with all that green gas escaping I think it would be cool if the
> coulds had some green swirled in. Maybe even other colors. It would make
it
> feel more like a different planet to me.

Hmm... actually, the clouds are about 900 units above the smoke (to give you
a sense of scale, the tallest landform is four units large) =) but I'll
consider that.

Thanks both of you =)

 - Slime
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> I love it. Very eerie. Only one suggestion, maybe the
> iris could be a more complex pattern, and also the
> spots on the alien. There is a contrast between the
> realism of the landscape and the detail of the alien.
> That may be intentional, in which case I'm just full
> of crap again ;-)

I guess I see what you mean. Yeah, I'll try to increase the detail,
especially on the eye. Thanks for mentioning that.

 - Slime
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> Is that smoke coming up from the creature, or a darker cloud? The white
> clouds look very good!

It's coming out of a fissure in the ground in the distance. The clouds, as I
said, are everything but cut and pasted from gilles tran's code, so thanks
to him =)

> But the clouds don't light up the ground as much as I would expect even on
> an alien planet (if the laws of physics are the same).. On the other hand,
> it will wash out the contrast in this scene, if you reduce the shadows..
So
> realism probably won't be good here. The ground texture would have to be
> substancially different.. Never mind, the balance of light between the
> ground and clouds are right.

Yeah, I'll probably put some slight radiosity in the final version, though I
might tone down the sky, save the rad data, and then bring it up, using the
saved data.

 - Slime
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> Those are great clouds.

Thanks to Gilles Tran =)

> One thing the alien needs, since he seem to be
> smart, he needs a backpack or something indicating he's part of an
> intelligent species. Or does he just look smart?

I'm thinking it's the latter =) I really like him, I think I'll try to
animate him after I'm done with this.

 - Slime
[ http://www.slimeland.com/ ]

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