Ship Simulator

English forum => Development corner => Topic started by: Brinch on March 11, 2008, 10:54:20

Title: Painter needed
Post by: Brinch on March 11, 2008, 10:54:20

Just having some fun with Blender    ;D
(http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a216/brinch/3dmodels/Barge_01.jpg)

Hmm Photobucket seems to degrade the picture  ??? Well you get the idea

Title: Re: Painter needed
Post by: Agent|Austin on March 11, 2008, 11:06:48

Looks like the paint is stripped. :p

Title: Re: Painter needed
Post by: Captain Spencer on March 11, 2008, 11:53:39

Looking good  ;D

I'd like to know where you got the texture from, I was having difficulties in finding textures so I started to make my own  :D

Title: Re: Painter needed
Post by: Brinch on March 11, 2008, 12:11:17

Spencer, Try making a google search for "free textures" - I'm not kidding, I haven't bookmarked any sites, the first page will bring links to my favourite sources of textures, CGTextures, imageafter and others - not sure of the spelling. These are ofcourse not ready to use normally, You'll have to do a lot of editing first. CGTextures has some nicely done photos which works very well, because they have good lightning and shadows, IMO.

Title: Re: Painter needed
Post by: Captain Spencer on March 11, 2008, 14:32:39

Quote from: Brinch on March 11, 2008, 12:11:17

Spencer, Try making a google search for "free textures" - I'm not kidding, I haven't bookmarked any sites, the first page will bring links to my favourite sources of textures, CGTextures, imageafter and others - not sure of the spelling. These are ofcourse not ready to use normally, You'll have to do a lot of editing first. CGTextures has some nicely done photos which works very well, because they have good lightning and shadows, IMO.

Thanks Brinch ;)

Title: Re: Painter needed
Post by: Chris-S1 on March 11, 2008, 14:48:10

lookses like a steel pontoon or to barge that has gon russty but gd work

Title: Re: Painter needed
Post by: Brinch on March 11, 2008, 15:39:32

Tried putting the barge in water, one render made with Blender internal, two with Indigo, one of them in ice and one in water

Title: Re: Painter needed
Post by: Captain Spencer on March 11, 2008, 15:43:53

They look nice :)

What do you model in??

Title: Re: Painter needed
Post by: Brinch on March 11, 2008, 15:49:35

I user Blender 2.45 for modelling and Indigo for rendering, both freeware, you can find out more about Blender at www.blender.org - Indigo, I can't remember the address, but should be asy to locate with google. I'm using the plugin called blendigo.

Title: Re: Painter needed
Post by: Captain Spencer on March 11, 2008, 15:59:29

Quote from: Brinch on March 11, 2008, 15:49:35

I user Blender 2.45 for modelling and Indigo for rendering, both freeware, you can find out more about Blender at www.blender.org - Indigo, I can't remember the address, but should be asy to locate with google. I'm using the plugin called blendigo.

Ohh right, I find blender quite hard to use to be quite honest. I've got it installed but it's interface is very hard to use  :-\

Title: Re: Painter needed
Post by: Brinch on March 11, 2008, 16:12:34

I felt the same way in the beginning, but I used a few tutorials and read alot on the Blenderartist forums ( http://blenderartists.org/ ), In a few month where I used Blender on and of, I feel like I'm getting the hang of it now. I would say Blender and Gmax are about the same to use for me now. There are some very powerfull tools in blender (some must be downloaded as plugins ) which helps alot.