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Originally posted by anim8ordude2005:
I HATE !"£$%^& YAHOO, HOW ON EARTH AM I SUPPOSED TO GET ON TO THE GROUP SITE SO I CAN GET PR_7's SCRIPT AS THATS THE ONE WE'RE USING.
Right, i'll start doing the basic terrain. Heres what i'll make just tell me if anything isn't needed.
(1) Mountains
(2) forest GROUND(someone else can do the trees)
(3) Desert
(4) plz tell me anything else u need.
anim8ordude
P.S. the , reflect my feelings at the start and end of the post lol

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edit: MP3D, you said you were honored or so that you can join in making the movie. Weren't you joining us already? And the join/leave bar is letting everyone trough, whenever they want But i'm gonna need some critics on my castle. Right now, i have no idea on how to go on. What should be improved, what should be added, what should be removed? And i have added walking paths from the 6 towers surrounding the central building to the central building. i'm working on paths to the walls, too. They're mostly modern style, like some skyscrapers are connected by a walking path, such thing. Anim8ordude, you're getting really along with your terrains. keep up the good work! Also, is there any girl/woman in this group? It seems now there are only guys working on this project and i have learned that a bit female might add that finishing touch.

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Originally posted by startrekfan001:
But i'm gonna need some critics on my castle. Right now, i have no idea on how to go on. What should be improved, what should be added, what should be removed? And i have added walking paths from the 6 towers surrounding the central building to the central building. i'm working on paths to the walls, too. They're mostly modern style, like some skyscrapers are connected by a walking path, such thing.

[This message has been edited by startrekfan001 (edited 01-16-2006).]

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There are two thing I think could do with updating if you don't mind me saying.

1, There seems to be too many windows in the walls. You have to remember that the walls of a castle are for defence and so many windows would offer no defence. Maybe just having windows (or as they are really called "wall turrets" along the upper area of the wall and then turn the sky scraper windows into square windows Like they have in the states which tend to make them look like glass houses.

2, The colour- It seems very dark. I was wondering about maybe using a middle grey steel colour for the walls (with rust patches) and then using an image that depicts long steel plates running up the height of the walls.

If you want me to, I can create a jpeg pic of the sort of thing I'm talking about to give you a better idea.

This is only my opinion so ignore it if you wish (I do, most of the time 'grin')

Here is frame 1...

Frame 72...

Codfish

EDIT: Nice castle BTW, anim8or dude!

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Originally posted by startrekfan001:
1: i'm NOT ignoring your comment.
2: Thanks for the comment
3: Please post that picture on what you mean. I'm not totally getting it.

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Hello Startrekfan. Could you send me a couple of jpeg's of the castle in different positions. This way I can create a picture of what I mean by using the jpeg's as reference. tried to open up your castle in anima8or but it wouldn't load up the the image files you used for the walls etc.

Well, we need trees right??? This is my area!
Here is what I had in mind!

I have been doing it for months now... It's still a WIP, as you can see the top branches aren't covered with leafs yet.

I hope you guys like it!

I also have a lightsaber if we still need it!
I'll post it soon

So... What do you think? will it do?

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Originally posted by Mr.Smeagol:

So... What do you think? will it do?

[This message has been edited by Mr.Smeagol (edited 01-17-2006).]

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Well as far as I'm concerned, both the trees and light saber are great and well detailed. So welcome on board. how about the rest of you?

And to anim8ordude: http://limefly.net/html/modules.php?name=coppermine
-great site with milions of freeware seamles textures including lots of ground and grass textures !!!

And to startrekfan - I think that stone or some kind of castle wall texture would do MUCH better than that windows little windows... try searching on the limefly 4 that kind of texture... if you can't find it maybe I can get it prinscreening the castle from one computer game of mine- let me know if you found it.
Other than texture - GREAT CASTLE!!!
-it could also use some enterior details.

I think you should use white stone bricks for the wall - not red bricks (if that was what you had in mind)

Right now I'm doing the low-poly version of my tree for the forest - and some transmap versions for very-far forest.

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I'm speechless! That is one COOL TREE! How many polies?
Thanks, but I've already made a chess board. Oh wait- i didn't make pieces! You can doo that. I think the chessboard is on the zone site in my file on the table.

I think we neeed to make a list of what objects we have. Or did someone already say that?

I think I will start modeling the queen's cat. I like cats For the forest, I volunteer to do underbrush, which is gonna mostly be transmaps.

anim8ordude

P.S P_R7 ur script isn't good.......... its incredible , and i really think we could use it. ( I would even do some voices but my mike broke )

NOT seamless:
[URL=http://img491.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wal l26sg.jpg] [/URL]

YES seamless:
[URL=http://img71.imageshack.us/my.php?i mage=bigstonesbase112fr.jpg] [/URL]

And i offered to do ches because of the beutiful chess board i got at home. I wanted to use it as texture. Here is the prewiew:
Anyways, If you'd like to use my chess texture, tell me and I'll make the whole one.

And -Yes! I'll do the pieces!

anim8ordude2005 - that texture of your box looks very blurry... you can try this one:

Yea and startrekfan & codfish - I actually ment castle interior-exterior... between walls and the main building. I had something like this in mind:
(It's a screenshot from a game)
But I'm not shure do we need that kind of exterior? Will there be any scene between walls and main building? I there are gonna be such scene - we shurely need this.

The tree poly count is 93544 faces.
But non subdivided version is 7873 faces.(with no leafs)

I think there will be at least one castle interior shot, but a brief one as people pass through. So basically you only have to do a low detail wall that can be blurred and used as a background.

I think that would be cool if we can do blurs. Some studios render each character, character shadow, and part of the background separately, then composite them all, adding effects like D-O-F and focal? blurs.. not sure which is the right word. Anyway.

As long as you're working on the dragon's cave, an8dude, you might as well start working on torches, misc. rocks, a small pile of gold, and a solitaire game. (only one or two movable cards needed) You could model the actual cave as well, if you want. Basically round with a tunnel leading in-
___________
_/ \_
/ \
| \_____
\__dragon______________ <- tunnel
yeah. go for it!

W: Are we there yet?

PC: No.

(short pause)

W: How about now?

PC: NO>

(short pause)

W: How about...

PC: We'll get there when WE GET THERE!!

W: Touchy.

PC. GRR."

This part is almost exact quote of donkey in shrek - I think we shoud delete it or replace it with something maybe similar.

Yea codfish - it's cs source.

Startrekfan - you should fix your's castles uv mapping when aplying brick or stone texture (assuming that tho one avaliable for download is the latest version).

I made the pawn 4 chess 4 now...the rest is on it's way.
I also finished the tree - added some more leafs. How do I upload my work to the group - do I just go there and press upload or do I have to send it to someon's e-mail ?

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Originally posted by Mr.Smeagol:
How do I upload my work to the group - do I just go there and press upload or do I have to send it to someon's e-mail ?

And seems we have only 20 MB of memory avaliable for our group, that wont be enough.

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To upload to the group - Create a folder with your name on it in the Anim8or file section for anim8or files and so on then just upload the files you want to.

As for size this can be upgraded by creating subgroups (each containing 20mb's of memmory) with each used for a particular file format or part of the film etc.

Mr. Smeagol- I forgot to say that your chessboard texture is ok. Mine is more a simple ultra-modern look. Yours looks more royal. Let's use yours.

P.S My work on this project will mainly just be typing until i get an ocean scene i'm working on done. (If u give me a really important job i'm sure the ocean will stay where it is )

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i have made fire using terranim8or and I have placed it in the fireplace and on the log but the top of the flames are cut off. I'll keep working on it but if anyone has some tips please post

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Simply said: Count 60 - Flammability, that will be the frame where the fire has reached it's final height and shape (no more cut off top!). Record the animation starting from this frame, not earlier!

To PR_7.... You actually never watched Shrek?!?!?! And you wrote that script like that?!?! WOW!!! Amaizing - that means your as good at making scripts as the guys who made shrek!!! cool ! I like your script very much btw.
well - if you never seen shrek then it's unfair of me to ask you to remove that, -let's keep it then !

And ok for the chessboard - I'll do it together with the figures - 4 now I have pawn, bishop & rook.

And i just found out that I have to redo some of my tree - because I have to make it more low poly - the thing is I converted the subdivision to mesh to be able to uv-map it. That's also why my bark texture is 4000*4000 pixels (2.5MB). The mesh is now 11MB which is toooo big, so I'll delete everything but leafs and import the low-poly non subdivided tree - then subdivide it just a very small amount. And then repeat uv-maping....
(I tried terranim8or simplify mesh but i end-tasked it after half an hour.)

Here is some concept art on the "dark tower somewhere":
(The image will be automaticly scaled down - so click on it to make it full-size)
--->>> if you like any of them, tell me which one you like best. <<<Than maybe I could model it? Exterior with integrated interior. (I still dont have any concept art of interior)

Hey anim8ordude - what do you say on the texture for the box? will you use it?
And It's a good idea to put helmets on some characters, to make it easyer for us. But the helmets shouldn't be worn the 100% of the movie but something like 30-50% cousi it would be stupid otherwise - never to see the carchter's face... And we can only make 20-30% of the caracters wear helmets - more than thet would look unrealistic. But we should do it!

Hey PR_7 - I made the chessboard and all the figures in the proportion with your chess table. Check it out! -I uploaded it to group site.
Knight figure was equaly hard to do as all the other figures together!! (when cheching out the figures don't forget to render them - they'r low poly (yea that's right - no subdivisions at all) - they look much better when rendered!

I like the chessboard! You need a few pieces laying on their side in a receptacle somewhere, like theyve been captured- my brothers say "eaten."

Most of your towers are better than mine, I vote for #4.

The privilege of modeling the queens cat is up for grabs. My pet cat of 15 years just died and I don't feel like making a cat just now.

Looking at my table, it needs some serious UVM. Any volunteers? I'm grounded from Anim8or til monday. (Wow, my parents know how to punish me! )