3D Animation : Park Grill
Daily Report
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What Was Done
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Time Taken (hrs)
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Modeled the grill with the charcoal brickets and the grate. Click on the links below to see the model of the grill, wire frame and solid.
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45 minutes
(0.75 hr)
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This has been a long one. I wanted to do this project to learn the node system in Blender for materials and textures. Well, guess what, I spent the day learning the system. I am pretty confident with it and can do what I need for now. Unfortunately, I can not use the nodes with Yafaray. I didn't know this!!!!! I do now. The only reason I had to use Yafaray is because of the HDR image I made for the lighting. I tried it in Blender but with no avail. I will have to put the textures together the old fashion way, with the layers system in Blender.
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6 hours
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Well, I have been working with Yafaray and Blender today. I got all of the texture layers made and ALMOST all of the looks I wanted. UNFORTUNATELY, AAAAAHHHHHHH, Yafaray is not COMPLETELY compatible with Blender. It does not except all of the different ways of texturing an object. So, it looks like I am going back to Blender. I have a light sphere system I made a couple of years ago and I will try to get it working with an HDR image.
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8 hours
of
FRUSTRATION
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OK, I am back in Blender. I have the light sphere working and I am back in the node system. Click on the links below to see the light sphere, node system, and a rendering.
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1 hour
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Today I spent about an hour working and about 6 hours waiting on my computer to render. I am not complaining, I have a slow and old computer so that is the way it is at the moment. I have added textures and worked with the lighting a little. I found out that my light sphere was without a sun, that is kind of important. I think I have the lighting about the way I want it and some of the surfaces are getting closer to being done. I have some more work to do but I am getting closer. Below, I have a link to an example of the grill composited into the background plate, a link to the new light sphere with the sun and my camera highlighted, and a link to the light sphere I photographed to get my overall lighting color and intensity. I also found out that Blender 2.5+ is not backwards compatible with 2.49b. This means that I am forced to use the current alpha version of Blender 2.51. I think, as Homer Simpson put it, the word 'DOH' applies here nicely.
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1 hour
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Today was another one of those days when I spent about an hour working and about 6 hours waiting for the computer. Below is a link to the current grill.
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1 hour
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