Army of Nodes (Depth of Field test)
 

I just thought I could demonstrate how nice a DOF (Depth of Field) effect can make even the simplest objects:

http://hem.passagen.se/chruser99/nodearmy.txt

What are your techniques to make images look good? :)

gratz you learned how to use depth of field :D like refraction... how long was the render time?

Actually, I've known Depth of Field for a while, but I decided to get two industry plug-ins for this. X-Dof and HyperSmooth from http://www.evasion3d.com were both used for the final outcome.

That looks nice, good job... what is Depth of Field?

Generally, a depth of field is a measurement of the range along a camera's line of sight in which objects will be in focus. In short, it's a way to focus a camera at a certain range to make the objects around it appear more blurred to add realism.

ya he explained it... but not my question... what was the render time dude?

Nice, but the front ones need to be sharper/crisper.

notice the top tip of them were crisp n sharp, so i guess that was the focus and the rest were just too close to the camera :D

Yeah I noticed that too, so depth is hard or something?

not that much if you're used to it i guess :)

I will look into it when it is time for me, sounds kinda easy tho... but ill see then

The rendering time was about 12 minutes. And yes, the focus was set to the top of the middle object in the second row, so you're right Randuin.

teehee i'm so smart! :D well it's kinda easy to figure out which points were sharp n crisp which weren't :)

lol good job Randuin, Chruser how is that one project going? The one you showed me a Screeny of?

which one acer? show us all :D

I hope he dosent mind me linking you to the screeny :P, http://www.zelaron.com/lwmodeler.jpg

oh that... i saw that one... it's err... okay i guess the top looks a lot less detailed than the bottom (i saw the rendered one) so i dunno think he'll work on it a bit more... i like the lighting tho... the little lights that shoot into the middle is... wierd =\

well it is very nice to me, since I can barely make a head figure(without detail).

well there are a lot more tutorials now, when i tried to learn LW (before i tried to learn 3dsmax or maya) there was hardly ANY tutorials for LW :)

Yeah, in the Tut list thread they have some good tuts, I mean I have used LW really for about a week and I know how most tools are used from those tuts.

ya it's great now... i don't have the patience to follow any tuts tho :D gotta build my patience

lol I am the same way, but I the videos helped me. I just hate most tuts cuz..

1) I hate reading
2) They use big words and talk way to intelligent(spellcheck) for me
3) They are long and usually skip something I need to know, leaveing me lost

i'm okay with the big words and all but i always get bored after the 3rd step in the tutorial :D

Gee, when were you trying to learn LW? Five years ago, almost back in the Amiga days? ;)

http://members.shaw.ca/lightwavetutorials/Main_Menu.htm

Oh, and by request, here's the rendered version of my scene. It's far from done, but I guess I'm obligated to show it anyway. :P

http://hem.passagen.se/chruser99/flowout.txt

okay remove the bottom refration immediately and put it as a semi-opaque light... it'd look so much damn nicer.. and that tower light thingy (the one that shoots out 3 lights) omg that looks almost like a cel shaded render... the heck?

All I have to say is, wow... that looks so nice rendered.

well those are my only complaints... the rest looks good just need more texturing work

If I could make anything that was close to that, I would be happy. I am just practicing like hell trying to catch up with you guys.

well you're gonna probly catch up to me soon... may be you've already done it... i don't know :D just keep at it and you'll get good eventually

already caught up? lol not a chance... just seeing you work on that eye blows me away and your useing LW something your not familar in.

lol well learning other packages do help... the only package that i cannot adapt to is houdini... all my skills on other packages goes away :(

True, I am going to mess with XSI and Maya, XSI to teach(like you said before), and Maya since you talk so highly of it.

well XSI and maya are about the packages that EVERY 3d school out there teach, so you can see their popularity :)

Yeah like that school I was telling you about, there classes are in 3Dmax, but I say if I learn 3DMax I can take what i know into LW :)

ur right it's all interchangable... i wish houdini was too but then after if houdini was interchangable it would lose all it was good for :D its uniqueness of workflow

Yeah as much as you talk about it, I should check it out

what houdini? it's really powerful but hard to use... very hard :

Hard eh? well I should learn LW first then, so at least I can learn the concept of 3D Modeling

definitely:) so all you've been doing so far is polygonal modelling then just smoothing them out with subpatches afterwards?