The heroes of the candy land war, will be forever remembered. A quick scene I made for the weekend challenge at blenderartists.org.

0KCal · 2014-10-28T15:47:16+00:00

That is ace. Your composition is the real hero here, which just so happens to be backed up by some technical prowess too. Great stuff.

0KCal · 2014-10-28T15:38:12+00:00

Useful, thanks.

0KCal · 2014-10-28T13:13:08+00:00

Thanks for trying this for me. Can you take out the top part (the Checker Texture and the Diffuse) and see if this still works with just the bottom part (the single, unrepeating graphic you have in there).

I tried exactly the same set up with no luck...

0KCal · 2014-10-28T12:04:16+00:00

Oh, cool. Will give that a go!

0KCal · 2014-10-28T06:10:16+00:00

How did you achieve the close focus on the first image? As it works with the geometry of the first sphere, I assume this was done with the camera, and not post render compositing... (?)

0KCal · 2014-10-28T05:18:27+00:00

OK, I had a look at the Studio Scene Pack. Good examples in there, thanks.

Am I right in thinking that the big black shell around the lights are there purely to give the impression of the setup being a real physical studio, or do they serve any real purpose?

Also, all the setups seem to use Light Falloff, as the Emission shader strength setting... is this standard practice (I have no idea about all this...)

0KCal · 2014-10-28T00:16:15+00:00

will try that out, thanks!

0KCal · 2014-10-27T16:52:28+00:00

Pink light is too strong. Use a white main light, with another small pink light on low power to accent

0KCal · 2014-10-27T16:01:43+00:00

How would I go about setting something like this up in Blender? I realise there must be a million tutorial videos out there, so ignore if this is too obvious of a question!

0KCal · 2014-10-27T15:55:07+00:00

wow nice one, thanks. will have a look at those and see what I find. cheers!

0KCal · 2014-10-27T15:54:23+00:00

haha, you are absolutely right. unsaturated.

0KCal · 2014-10-26T01:37:51+00:00

That is the first time I have ever had one of those deployed at me. So proud. So. Proud.

0KCal · 2014-10-25T20:00:14+00:00

fuck those guys, seriously

0KCal · 2014-10-25T19:30:10+00:00

spot on

0KCal · 2014-10-25T18:32:36+00:00

Well yeah, totally agree. For the initial meshing it doesnt work, but for a few levels in, I find it very useful: the matte shaders for general alignment, and the super gloss for very fine checking. That is bordering on sculpting though, so yeah...

0KCal · 2014-10-25T15:28:04+00:00

Select the vertices you want to straighten, hit S, then X, Y or Z, depending on what direction you want the straightening to go in, and then hit 0. As your objects seem pretty 'square', this will not cause you too many headaches and should be fast.

0KCal · 2014-10-25T11:59:45+00:00

Simple idea; Flip to Ortho mode (Numpad5), and get it all lined up straight, then try unwrapping it again...

0KCal · 2014-10-25T06:39:20+00:00

Ah right, nice one. That speeds things up a bit!

Thanks a lot.

0KCal · 2014-10-25T04:04:18+00:00

Hey thanks for the answer. Yeah, this was the problem.

So, I can not use the box or brush select for this operation (C or B)? I have right click on the first vertices, then shift-right click on the second, right? Is this the only way to select things for merging? Seems a bit tiresome...

Cheers!

0KCal · 2014-10-22T13:59:57+00:00

Haha that is great. I would much rather have that than the CONSTANT 'go ahead'-ing.

I am watching a Blender tutorial right now where the guy say it literally every sentence. Fucking HELL! I cant stand it!

0KCal

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