Another Traveller Mini-Movie

[Andrew Boulton]

I may do.

 

[hirch duckfinder]

andrew im dribbling to see it but keep getting an error downloading codec message (though i get the motorhead) any idea how to get around that?
ta

 

[mike wightman]

Andrew, you have a special talent.

Thank you once again for the effort you've put into this, and for sharing it with us

 

[Andrew Boulton]

Hirch, sounds like you're letting the player get the codecs it needs, but with DivX you have to install them yourself from http://www.divx.com/divx/download/

"Andrew, you have a special talent."

Shh...I've told you not to mention it in public...

 

[Andrew Boulton]

Playing around last night I threw this together - basically the same, but approaching a city landing pad.

http://www.geocities.com/andrew_boulton/ftpad-ani-1.avi

 

[Klaus]

Try the VLC player from http://www.videolan.com
Win, Mac, Linux, all codecs, all the time... Well not quite but more or less any format or codec will play in it.

 

[Scarecrow]

At the moment it lowers perfectly evenly and just stops dead.
For more realism, try adding in some random elements. Have it settle gradually at an angle, letting one leg touch down first and then the others. Also have it lower slowly onto the suspension. Maybe have it yaw round slightly as it settles too.
Have the camera move sideways slightly.

Crow

 

[Andrew Boulton]

Yeah, I was thinking about doing something like that in the final version.

 

[Andrew Boulton]

Nearly finished the model. I'm really pleased with it.

 

[mike wightman]

Wow

 

[Pickles]

Very pretty.

 

[Andrew Boulton]

I thought I'd try a little compositing experiment...

 

[Jame]

Ooo, I always wanted a to-scale thing. Well done!

 

[Rossoneill]

very well done Marquis Andrew

 

[Scarecrow]

Cool! That works really well. Nice one.

Crow

 

[Andrew Boulton]

Thanks! Not bad considering it's the first time I've tried it - the hardest part was finding a decent background photo. The lighting needs a bit more work, but that can wait until I finish texturing the ship.

 

[Scarecrow]

The lighting's pretty cool as it is. I'd desaturate the colours on the hull to make it look less plasticy.

Crow

 

[Andrew Boulton]

For some reason it's difficult making a light green ship look "real". Possibly the reason why you almost never see any.

 

[Scarecrow]

Not lightened, desaturated.

Same tone, just greyer, washed out.

Crow

 

[Andrew Boulton]

I know, it's the fact that it's *green* that's the problem - I've already desaturated it quite a bit from where it was originally. I kept tweaking it, trying to get it to look *right*...and ended up with nearly grey, so I sort of compromised with this shade.

Different lighting may help with this pic.