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Steampunk World
$imon:
Sounds good Meep! There is always room for crazy things to walk around!
kreator:
ah! gotcha.... meteors, well its as good as coal so I`ll not need a furnace now then. Makes the factories chimney a bit redundant!
$imon:
The chimney is cool though so I say just keep it!
By the way - I was just thinking - it's not a meteor, technically it's a meteorite (a meteor 'surviving' impact with earth). but that's just on a side-note.
I'm working quite a bit on getting my house exterior done - I'm so rusty it's taking me ages!
While texturing I'm using 3ds max to bake GI to the texture itself - this is very useful and makes things look a lot better (IMO) . I was thinking this could save some time in the final render (whenever that will be) , to bake part of the shadows already onto the textures. This will require every object to be properly UV-mapped etc. though, so we'll see!
Arik_the_Red:
Hey, no reason to do away with chimneys... I'm sure there can be some use of smokestacks - to release some sort of greenhouse gas! ;) Methinks Kreator might not like History books ;) Me, either!
Meep, always wide open ideas for steam-powered vehicles... bicycles, tricycles, unicycle?
or maybe...
"The wrong trousers, Gromit!" joking.
ENSONIQ5:
The original idea for the side pipes on the limousine was fan-forced chimneys... then I remembered the smokeless heat source! So now they are used to return spent, low pressure steam from the engine back to the boiler, the external pipes helping to cool and condense some of it back into water for improved efficiency and distance per tank of water. Or something...! The chimney on the factory could be a similar device, like a primitive version of a cooling tower on a nuclear power station.
Re the meteor/meteorite argument, actually it should be called a meteoroid. Meteorite is the substance a meteoroid is made out of (no matter what the actual elements and compounds are), and a Meteor is the bright phenomenon caused when a meteoroid burns on passing through the atmosphere. Not that this matters, just being pedantic!
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