3D Ray Traced Image

[rogerg (Roger)]

Humayun is right, I have. I posted a pic here from one of mine back in 1998. Was good fun doing them, I enjoying having the time to be creative in Bryce & PhotoShop back then.

I might get around to posting some more later, right now I don't have the capability .... just where I'm at with switching PC's and stuff .

[bluescope]

Originally Posted by rogerg

Humayun is right, I have. I posted a pic here from one of mine back in 1998. Was good fun doing them, I enjoying having the time to be creative in Bryce & PhotoShop back then.

I might get around to posting some more later, right now I don't have the capability .... just where I'm at with switching PC's and stuff .

That's a nice image Roger ... post some more when you get the time ... it's good to go down memory lane every now and then. I've been getting a sore neck, eyes and rear end from messing with it alll again. I'm rendering a scene in the background right now actually

[kinetic (Steve)]

Some beautiful renderings guys, wow!

I didn't ever get into the rendering thing but a mate of mine did.
I dabbled in a similar thing in another lifetime, scenery design for
flight sims.
I built a 3D elevated mesh scenery of the far western N.S.W. area
using the 30m DTED elevation database and the first geomaps freely
available on the net. Way before Google earth was around.
They were fairly rough back then but far better than the default
scenery for the area.

I also repainted some of the Flight sim models, even as far back as
FS98.

Pic 1 here is one of my scenery jobs, the Pinnacles just out of
Broken Hill. In the pic is one of my FS 98 repaints, a NZAF Harvard reg
VH-PEM, the full size plane of which I have fond memories of.

Pic 2 is a repaint of mine, a Fokker F50, VH-FKZ, again the real one
I have spent many hours in as a passenger

Pic 3 is a bit of fun my daughter and I had..we repainted the F50
in Barbie colours and as a challenge to the online FSim guys,
I showed I could land one on VSAS runway in Venezuela

Pic 4 is some fun with my son flying an X-wing over the Mt Lofty
Ranges in Adelaide buzzing Star Destroyers at sunset.
Not my work though, these ones.

Steve

[bluescope]

Originally Posted by kinetic

Some beautiful renderings guys, wow!

I didn't ever get into the rendering thing but a mate of mine did.
I dabbled in a similar thing in another lifetime, scenery design for
flight sims.
I built a 3D elevated mesh scenery of the far western N.S.W. area
using the 30m DTED elevation database and the first geomaps freely
available on the net. Way before Google earth was around.
They were fairly rough back then but far better than the default
scenery for the area.

I also repainted some of the Flight sim models, even as far back as
FS98.

Pic 1 here is one of my scenery jobs, the Pinnacles just out of
Broken Hill. In the pic is one of my FS 98 repaints, a NZAF Harvard reg
VH-PEM, the full size plane of which I have fond memories of.

Pic 2 is a repaint of mine, a Fokker F50, VH-FKZ, again the real one
I have spent many hours in as a passenger

Pic 3 is a bit of fun my daughter and I had..we repainted the F50
in Barbie colours and as a challenge to the online FSim guys,
I showed I could land one on VSAS runway in Venezuela

Pic 4 is some fun with my son flying an X-wing over the Mt Lofty
Ranges in Adelaide buzzing Star Destroyers at sunset.
Not my work though, these ones.

Steve

Very interesting Steve ... thanks for your contribution !

[Spanrz (Brett)]

Loving your images guys.

Hahaha, Steve, nice. I used to muck around on the FS too, come up with stupid slogans on the side of the planes. I would sometimes paint swear words on the side of the planes, to constitute "don't fly with us, we're terrible".
Just a bit of inhouse fun.

I use to dabble in 3D a long time ago, I remember it used to take over 5 minutes to draw a single, somewhat pixely, picture.
A 386SX-33mhz would do that.

I have stepped up to 3DMAX 9, but have since dropped out of it, as this 3D image path is very time consuming. I am still very much a learner in 3DMAX. Self taught, never been to Uni type of thing, so it's a learning curve.
Always wanted to get back into it. One day I will.

BTW, do any of you know the "easiest" way to make a gear (Worm, spur, planetary)?
I was trying to make a worm gear setup, so I could figure out some of the scope stuff, but I went ahead and got the real things anyway.