Modeling Contest added rules

[Senator]

 :mrgreen:'



EDIT: I'd like to note btw that this is not a blaster but a sawed off shotgun, under the logic that... how does a lightsaber block a buckshot anyway?

[executioner_de]

Looking good, plz no post production and plz just post 1 render, the one you want in the contest.

I must say im impressed how lightsaber can look like

[Armondikov]

Why did I know a gunblade (or should it be blastersaber?) would pop up.

Okay, one render it'll be. 


EDIT: For anyone who is interested, for blades, the core is white (with a very, very subtle tint due to the colour of the blade but this is only visible on the strongest colours such as deep reds and purples) with the coloured glow around it. To get this effect, the easiest way is to change the blade's luminosity (the armount that the surface is lit regarless of what light falls on it) to way above normal. At least 100% (if your program uses % scales) if not a little more. This should saturate out the colour and make the material white regardless of the material's base colour or texture. Hopefully, your glow should stay the same as the base colour (this should be the case in MAX and, apparently, newer versions of Lightwave), if not you'll need to change the glow settings or do some after effects work.

There are some more complex methods that involve volumetric rendering and some particle effects, but it's fiddly work, it's best just to work on the saber itself and leave the blade switched off.

[Senator]

Is texturing allowed?

[limey BSc.]

I just added a lens glow on mine!

[executioner_de]

Sure, texturing is allowed

Plz this is not a WIP Threat, just post youre contest render and dont change the render after youve posted it.

[Senator]

no post production

Sure, texturing is allowed

...I claim then that all my post production is in fact, a texture, rendered on the surface of a cube facing the camera and thus, in fact, just a render.

*ducks*

[limey BSc.]

By post production, I think he means photoshopping the render.

[executioner_de]

By post production, I think he means photoshopping the render.

Yes

[Senator]

...and my (failed) humor was that a lawyer can argue that someone can take a post produced picture, and then puts it inside the 3D rendering program on a surface, and then render the surface. You have technically used photoshop to create a texture then, and can be shown that the final image can be made within the 3d program upon clicking the button "render".

Anyways...

[blaXXer]

stay tuned for my entry, folks

[executioner_de]

And my Classic Style Lightsaber on a Classic base ^^

[Armondikov]

...and my (failed) humor was that a lawyer can argue that someone can take a post produced picture, and then puts it inside the 3D rendering program on a surface, and then render the surface. You have technically used photoshop to create a texture then, and can be shown that the final image can be made within the 3d program upon clicking the button "render".

Anyways...

Because you're being... there's a word for it, but I can't recall it...

[blaXXer]

And now, for my entry. Lo and behold ye heathen Jedi ;)

[executioner_de]

Great design  :shock: Looks like its a Sith Lord one.

My Saber will cut it in 2 halfs anyways ^^

[blaXXer]

since when can lightsabers pierce vonduun crab armor? ;)

looking forward to your final, exe

[Senator]

I'd like to raise the ethical considerations of killing crabs for their armor. :arms:

[blaXXer]

Question noted, questioner disposed of. That's doin' it Vong-style, baby

[Aeries]

oh, cool blaster saber. Nice with blade, blaxxer. Very original design for star wars.

[Armondikov]

So if a Saber can't cut it, how did you cut it up to make it in the first place  :?