MK89_Channel_ID_Design

[thumpa]

Hey Eaton

I watch MK89 just to see the logos. I think they are very well done!

You're in Cape Town, right?

Good job!

Dave

[ziddemizard]

hi eaton,

thanks for the screeshot. i cannot believe it , you said, render time were about 2 and 6 minutes. what computer/farmRender have you? this set in my computer (AMD64 +3200 - 1GB ram) and crash it! XD

thx

[Eaton]

:thumpa
Thanks Dave Yes I am in Cape Town. Nice to see more Vray users from South Africa did not know there were any others using it down here. I thought I struck gold all on my own.

:ziddemizard
That’s strange, I think it depends on your scene.
I have a dual AMD Opteron 1.99GHz, 4gig ram.
Those setting I posted b4 where for the "out door" scenes.I used these for the “robot” scenes. No blur on my reflections and on vary lights.

I think the best thing to do is render a few tests. Render at low resolution like 240x180. use "Built in presets" under "irradiace map" and push your HSph subdivs up from there. Hope this helps.
As I said before I am new to Vray but these setting worked for me.

[DaForce]

How did you break apart the logo? Was it all done by hand.. and then animated with reactor or something?

[Eaton]

aForce
I used Powerbooleans Power Cutter tool to cut my object apart. http://www.npowersoftware.com
I Think if u download the demo they send u a link to a very explanatory video tutorial.
It is an amazing plug-in. And its pretty affordable $295. I use it very often
I used UVunwrap to do the texturing, the gr8 thing about power cutter is that u can map your object and then cut it apart and your texturing will stay in place. I think this is possibly the only plug-in that u can do this with.
For the img above: I used reactor(fracture simulation) for the bigger fragments and the smaller bits r particle flow with a grouped shape instance.
This was a series of stills.

In the more detailed fracture animations I used particle flow and a birth script.
It is based on this:
http://www.scriptspot.com/bobo/mxs5/...nks_Basics.htm

[thumpa]

@ Eaton

There are a couple of South Africans lurking on these boards

You should come along to our animation workshop next week Thursday - I'll be doing a demo of Max 8.

http://www.animationsa.org/v2/article.asp?ArticleID=176

Dave

[dansimon]

Thumpa, the work shop looks very interesting. definatly be there.

[ziddemizard]

@eaton
thanks you very much for you advice.

[Eaton]

Dave
Does look very interesting, I’m there.