morph ball renders

13M13

2006-05-02 10:02:23 pm

l'appel du vide

Quote from SamusAranLuver:

whoa the string in the gap of the morph ball reminds me of yoyos.

Hah, that'd be awesome. A Morphball yo-yo.

Chanoire

2006-05-03 11:08:57 am

Quote from nn12000:

Quote from Izo:

Lmfao. Your ability to not get things astounds me.

Geese. I don't get a lot of things. I don't get out of my house enough. See the second quote in my sig. ... Ok, I blame school more than society, but still.

Getting out of the house -- which presumably you leave to go to school -- is not actually required. What's required is that you engage your brain for more than looking for something to blame for your failure to think.

Izo

2006-05-03 11:11:14 am

soaking through

Also, "geese" is the plural of "goose."

RT-55J

2006-05-03 06:08:12 pm

Armor Guardian

Quote from Izo:

Also, "geese" is the plural of "goose."

Methinks that he wast attemping to spell "jeez," as in "Jeez laweez! What is that?!".

nn12000

2006-05-03 06:11:00 pm

Mister ...

geese, jeeze, geeze, whatever.

Yeah, it's mean to be like Jeez Louize and stuff. Sorry about the confusion.

And I do apply my brain, just not as often as I should. Maybe I should get Brain Age for the DS? Though Im' not sure how that's gonna help.

arkarian

2006-05-03 10:19:08 pm

red chamber dream

Quote from RT-55J:

Quote from Izo:

Also, "geese" is the plural of "goose."

Methinks that he wast attemping to spell "jeez," as in "Jeez laweez! What is that?!".

Methinks Izo knew that. >_>

Mealsothinks that "methinks" is a really, really retarded word.

I've also always spelled it "Geez, louise" when using that expression but spell it "jeez" everywhere else. Think I inherited that from my girlfriend for some reason.

nate

2006-05-03 10:35:52 pm

i'm a jeezer too.

arkarian

2006-05-03 11:05:33 pm

red chamber dream

YOUNG JEEZY, BLOODS!

...that has got to be the worst name for a rapper, ever.

Izo

2006-05-04 12:52:05 pm

soaking through

Dude, methinks rocks your fucking socks off. >_>

13M13

2006-05-04 04:29:44 pm

l'appel du vide

I didn't know such socks exist...

...

Oh, unless you mean...gotcha.

That's an odd visual.

USBCD36

2006-07-04 07:55:32 pm

I started messing around with DJGrenola's source files, and I ended up with a new desktop as a result!

It's just the original render, but the morph balls are replaced with spider balls from the "official" desktop. Still purely DJGrenola's work, but now it's a combination of two different works.

(no, the image isn't truncated, the top portion is the same color as the forum background)

DJGrenola

2006-07-04 08:32:35 pm

beautiful.

go open source.

The Nick

2006-07-07 07:20:52 pm

That last one totally ruled with awesomeness! 8-) Your quite talented, i see a good future career for you.

nate

2006-07-07 07:29:50 pm

a career at microsoft, perhaps?

The Nick

2006-07-07 07:48:42 pm

Who knows. Maybe youll turn out so good at didgital art, mutiple companys will offer you a place in their busines. Like i always say, u never know wen u never know

DJGrenola

2006-07-07 08:52:46 pm

Quote from nate:

a career at microsoft, perhaps?

oh, the hilarity.

arkarian

2006-07-07 09:58:29 pm

red chamber dream

Additionally, The Nick, please type out the word "u". It's really annoying when you don't.

13M13

2006-07-07 10:22:56 pm

l'appel du vide

i have to say...grenola's balls are indeed mighty!

Quote:

Additionally, The Nick, please type out the word "u". It's really annoying when you don't.

u gotta be kiddin' me...

USBCD36

2006-07-08 12:15:13 am

One of the things that I found by doing this is that there is a lot of untapped potential in that code. Yeah, DJGrenola is doing more with the Newton's cradle model, but there are a lot more things that it could be used for. You never know until you render it…(and if you use any of the spider balls, render at the smallest visible resolution first; they take forever to render).

Edit: I decided to try my hand at roughing out the Dark Suit morph ball. Yes, it looks pretty bad, but it's not close to done either…

Note: if you refresh and it updates, that's because the working files are in my webserver. This way, I don't have multiple versions floating around.

I'm still looking for a good way to make the spheres of light on the ends. (I'm going off of this image)

The main trouble I'm having is that the different views don't actually match up. At the least, proportions are wrong. At most, things that exist in one view don't exist in the other.

I took the image of the frontal view and traced it on graph paper (surprisingly, it lined up perfectly). I found that it was better to do that than to estimate proportions.

So…any suggestions?

One of the things that I found by doing this is that there is a lot of untapped potential in that code.  Yeah, DJGrenola is doing more with the Newton's cradle model, but there are a lot more things that it could be used for.  You never know until you render it…(and if you use any of the spider balls, render at the smallest visible resolution first; they take forever to render).

Edit: I decided to try my hand at roughing out the Dark Suit morph ball.  Yes, it looks pretty bad, but it's not close to done either…

[img]http://usbcd36.homedns.org/morph_balls/dark_ball.png[/img]

Note: if you refresh and it updates, that's because the working files are in my webserver.  This way, I don't have multiple versions floating around.

I'm still looking for a good way to make the spheres of light on the ends.  (I'm going off of [url=http://usbcd36.homedns.org/morphballs.png]this[/url] image)

The main trouble I'm having is that the different views don't actually match up.  At the least, proportions are wrong.  At most, things that exist in one view don't exist in the other.

I took the image of the frontal view and traced it on graph paper (surprisingly, it lined up perfectly).  I found that it was better to do that than to estimate proportions.

So…any suggestions?

Dragonfangs

2006-07-08 05:21:51 am

Okay, usbcd, could you please not host stuff on your own webserver. It's just that due to timezones, I'm never on when your server is, so I can't see those pictures.

USBCD36

2006-07-08 01:23:42 pm

Ah. I'll mirror it on ImageShack…

(screen capture from Echoes)

nn12000

2006-07-08 03:48:04 pm

Mister ...

To be honest, that Dark Ball render kinda looks like the big Shoulder things from the dark suit. Granted, not as detailed, but it still looks cool.

DJGrenola

2006-11-04 01:49:19 am

those of you who have seen my speed run might recognise this:

http://www.ali1548.ukshells.co.uk/vids/mbrender.mp4

... but here's a slightly earlier beta version which I was playing with when I was trying to define parametrically the movement of the camera:

http://www.ali1548.ukshells.co.uk/vids/mbrender_test.mp4

And finally, here's the xbox360 edition ! OMGSACRILEGE

http://www.ali1548.ukshells.co.uk/vids/mbrender_xbox360.mp4

Prime Hunter

2006-11-04 08:16:52 am

Two questions, and if you've answered them somewhere before, I'm sorry for asking them again: One, what 3D program are you using? Two, when did you first start working in 3D? Because I've had the chance to play around with Maya 7 for a good six months now, and I only did my first complete animation about a week ago for my Intro to 3D Animation class.

The Morph Balls you've created look very close to the real thing in my opinion, and I just wanted to know how long it took you to get to that point. I love the renders if you couldn't tell, but I'm not too sure about that last one... Wink

(Honestly through, the Morph Ball does looks pretty good like that.)

Yoshi348

2006-11-04 12:11:52 pm

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Ready and willing.

Quote from DJGrenola:

And finally, here's the xbox360 edition ! OMGSACRILEGE

SOMBUS AARON: ONLY FOR XBOX </injoke>

Or I guess you could call it Corruption. Or just a pallete swap. Yeah, let's go with pallete swap.