| | | Kevin Kim | | Final Scene | | | Nature | |
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| | Inspiration
I wanted to make a scene that had to do with landscape and scenery because I did not get a chance to do so in the past projects. I thought that the groups that did nature scenes did a good job, and I wanted to know how to make scenes like that. And since this class is about learning to model and texture, I thought I might as well learn how to do nature type modeling while in the class. I originally wanted to make a vast, open fields type scene. However, I could not think of enough objects to put into the scene other than boring rocks and leafless trees, so I opted for a grassy and leafy tree populated scene. | |
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| | | Objects | Ground | Kevin | | | Tree 1 | Kevin | | | Tree 2 | Kevin | | | Tree 3 | Kevin | | | Tree 4 | Kevin | | | | | | Textures | Grass | Kevin | | | Bark | Kevin | | | Leaves | Kevin | | | Sky | Kevin | | | | | References | Skytracer Tutorial | http://www.newtek.com/products/lightwave/tutorials/animation/skytracer2/index.html | | | TreeCage Plug-In | http://perso.wanadoo.fr/dpont/plugins/TreeCage_Lscript.htm | | | Tree Tutorial | http://www.animationartist.com/2000/Tutorials/LWTrees/lwtrees.html |
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| | Problems and Solutions
Initially, I knew I would not be able to accomplish everything I wanted to do for this scene. The previous group scene left me wanting a grand scene, but in reality I could never accomplish such a scene on my own with less time available. Because of this, I tried to keep the complexity of my final scene down. I spent the first week learning (and finding) Sasquatch and TreeCage. I worked out the grass and ground early and started working on the trees.
After I got a tree done, I decided to try to incorporate some animals. I modeled a rabbit, but ran into problems with Sasquatch. It could not recognize the rabbit for some reason and would not add the fur. This took a lot of time out of my overall scene. I spent a lot of time modeling the rabbit, but had to let it go since time was running out. I overcame this problem by working on making some more trees in the little time I had left. Since I only had trees and grass, I decided I needed to work on my sky. So I took down the dome I was using with an image mapped on it and worked on Skytracer. I was a little disappointed that I couldn’t get fur on my rabbit, but I feel that my overall scene was enhanced more by the use of Skytracer.
Another problem I faced was placing my trees in Lightwave. I used Modeler to arrange my trees the way I wanted them because it was impossible to do so accurately on Lightwave since I had to keep my leaves and trunks separate. Using various layers and open objects, I was able to place my trees and duplicate them too.
I faced some other minor problems with Sasquatch, TreeCage, and Skytracer. These problems were remedied by guess and checking though.
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