3D TUTORIAL
24-09-2001

GET ON THE SCENE, LIKE A SEX MACHINE A tutorial for all the people i fooled making them believe you needed 300 000 spotlights to do a good scene :) .. Description Right ... true that a scene with a good skydome will be great .. but in space, noone can hear you scream, so you don't really need 300 lights, especially for an animation ( animation is the contrary of "shitty beauty shot" ) where the nitpickers ( that must die immediately ) won't notice that the deflector dish is 1 inch too wide and so it doesn't match the diagrams seen in the fact files ..

TUTORIAL : First of all, the usual Tachy-Maneuvre, good simple background, good ship, good camera angle..note, there is no light in the scene right now .. [figure 1] [figure 1] [figure 2] Now i added a spotlight with raytraced shadows .. sure i could leave it like that it already beats 99% of what you can see in a few forums, but hey, i can do better :).. [figure 2] See how adding a dim blue light on the other side gives life to the image, i add some very soft shadows to this second light so we can see the details on the front of the ship.. [figure 3] [figure 3] [figure 4] I changed the colour of the nebula and gave it the colour of the second omni light.. [figure 4] Okay, i wanted to know how it felt to be a B5MG modeling idiot so i added a Lens Flare.. see how bad that is now, which really proved B5 modelers are really idiots :).. [figure 5] [figure 5] [figure 6] Alright, that's a good exhaust for a big engine, i know it is not supposed to look like that for real .. hell anyway who knows .But one thing is sure, it does look good anyway :) [figure 6] I changed the main light's direction to give a better look [figure 7] [figure 7] [figure 8] Done, and you can download the lil animation by clicking on the image, the rest of the anim is being rendered tomight so come back tomorrow for the exhausts part :) [figure 8] My conclusion, well it speaks for itself, see what you can do with 3 lights and a good model ?