| | | Vince Yamamoto | | Final Scene | | | Tori | |
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| | Inspiration
After traveling for weeks and weeks a lone ronin Samurai finally reaches his destination. A giant Tori Gate rises high into the sky as a great landmark for the Samurai’s homeland. It’s only half a days travel until the Samurai reaches his hometown where he can live in peace for the rest of his years.
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| | | Objects | Samurai Character | Vince | | | Tori Gate | Vince | | Radiosity Effect Skydome | Vince | | | SasLite Groundplanes | Newtek.com | | | | | Textures | Samurai Clothing and Facial Features | Vince | | | Samurai Hat | 3DTotal.com | | | Samurai Armor | LW Preset | | | Tori Gate Textures | 3DTotal.com |
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| | Problems and Solutions
The biggest problem I encountered was the issue of stray points and polys. This posed a problem because it would mess with the UVs I had laid out and display improperly in render. It also prevented me from using tools such as bandsaw, bandglue, and add edges.
I used the statistics window (“w” on the keyboard) and selected all the one point polys and deleted them to take care of the stray points problem. For the polys I had to find the Unify Polys tool which is “|” on the keyboard. This successfully took care of the problem however it could also unify polys that I didn’t want unified and cause texturing problems, so I had to be careful with it.
I had originally wanted to rig my Samurai character. I found that this was very time consuming and if I continued trying to successfully rig my character that it would stretch beyond the limits of the deadline and I wouldn’t have a useable character for the scene. To solve this problem I posed the character manually, moving and rotating polys until I got the desired pose. A cheap and dirty trick I know but it worked.
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