Clarke Steinback Ph.D. 3D Computer Modeling APCG 330 Spring 2007 Erik Sunderland

2007 Spring ->3D Computer Modeling ->Galleries ->Desk Gallery ->Erik Sunderland Erik Sunderland   Desk Scene                     My desk   Inspiration Story: My desk scene is inspired by my desk at home. Since I am a computer science major, I am constantly at my desk and know it very well. I wanted to try to recreate my desk because I have everything to meet the requirements. When my desk is clean, this render gives a pretty good idea of what it looks like. I don't have much of a story behind it but when I have a few minutes to kill I like to read a popular news site called Digg. I used an actual screenshot of my desktop with the Digg page open in FireFox so that it gave the realism of my home scene.  Objects 90gx2 Erik Sunderland A model of my LCD screen.   Bulb Erik Sunderland A lightbulb   Desk Erik Sunderland Wooden desk   Glass Erik Sunderland Small water glass   kb Erik Sunderland keyboard   Lamp Erik Sunderland Desk lamp   mouse Erik Sunderland Computer mouse   Penc1lyr Erik Sunderland Pencil on 1 layer   Room Erik Sunderland The room   Shade Erik Sunderland Lamp shade   Speaker Erik Sunderland Computer speaker   Xbox Erik Sunderland Xbox 360 Textures Keyboard.jpg http://gearlog.com/ blogs/gearlog/ archive/ category/ 1006.aspx   Kb.jpg, kbclip.jpg Edited from keyboard.jpg   Ldesktop.jpg, Rdesktop.jpg Screenshot of my home computer   Logi.jpg Logitech logo http://www.logitech.com   Mesh.jpg http://mayang.com/ textures/perl/ preview.pl?image= tightly_woven _black_carpet _060293.JPG   Pwr.jpg, pwr.png Picture taken with my digital camera.   Tray.jpg Picture taken with my digital camera.   Wall.jpg http://mayang.com/ textures/perl/ preview.pl? image= white_wall_ 4012147.JPG   Wood1.jpg http://mayang.com/ textures/perl/ preview.pl? image= plastic_ artificial_ wood_ panel_ 4131427.JPG   Wood2.jpg http://mayang.com/ textures/perl/ preview.pl? image= plastic_ artificial_ wood_ panel_ 4131426.JPG   I spent about 25 hours on my project. A lot of undocumented time from above was spent setting up lighting. I have found that it is very difficult to get good lighting in a scene. What makes it even more difficult, is the use different kinds of lighting. I used a volumetric light for my monitors to give them a glow effect. This drastically slowed down render time. I had to be patient and just tweak the settings until I found something that seemed to work. Problems and Solutions I ran into a problem when trying to use the clip map to make my keyboard look the way it does. The tutorial I was using said to put black where I did NOT want the image to show up. I gave it a shot and it did not render correctly. I eventually inverted the black and white in the kbclip.jpg and it worked perfectly. I was stuck reapplying the clip map and texture several times until I finally decided to flip the image and it worked. Time Frame 90gx2 2 hrs   Bulb 5 min   Desk 3 hr   Glass 45 min   kb 2 hr   Lamp 2 hrs   mouse 1 hr   Penc1lyr 1 hr   Room 1 hr   Shade 1 hr   Speaker 2 hr   Xbox 1 hr     ~ 17hrs   Keyboard.jpg N/A   Kb.jpg, kbclip.jpg 2 hrs   Ldesktop.jpg, Rdesktop.jpg 15 min   Logi.jpg N/A   Mesh.jpg N/A   Pwr.jpg, pwr.png 10 min   Tray.jpg 10 min   Wall.jpg N/A   Wood1.jpg N/A   Wood2.jpg N/A References I used a clip map tutorial from our class webpage to get my keyboard to look the way it does. It took a long time to select the image in Photoshop using the marquee. I had to zoom in and follow the edge all the way around until I only had the keyboard selected. Then once the marquee was in the shape of the keyboard, I put it into a new document and colored the outside black. This created a problem that I will describe below.  2007 Spring Concept Design and Storyboarding 3D Computer Modeling Assignments Calendar Gradebook Syllabus Tutorials Galleries Desk Gallery Group Gallery Video Game Development Portfolio Video Game Project

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