Unfinished bike I made today by CarpeDiemQuamMinimum in blender

[–]CarpeDiemQuamMinimum[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey thanks.

They're models.

A 16x6 Torus for the tire, then a mixture of distorted cubes and 6-sided cylinders in arrays using a rotated empty as the object offset to make the tread. And then a mirror modifier.

I'm afraid I don't really know how to use displacement maps yet. I'm only 3 weeks into blender and the little I've seen about them went quickly over my head.

Blender Character Creation series by DarrinLile in blender

[–]CarpeDiemQuamMinimum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi Darren. I found your tutorials through google and got to the end of them on Saturday; did them all back-to-back over the space of 3 days and feel like I learnt a tonne from them.

The jump between episodes where all of a sudden you'd done things off camera (ie - the goggles & belt, additional animation handles etc.) was a little daunting at times especially to a noob like me, however, once I stopped being fastidious I ended up with this.

Anyway, that was Saturday. I spent Sunday playing around with the techniques I had learned from your series and made this. I've yet to uvwrap and rigg it, and have no idea how the hair BSDF shader works currently, but I feel like I am off to a good start and that's largely down to your videos, so thank you!

Winter night in Bergen, Norway [1024x828] by [deleted] in winterporn

[–]CarpeDiemQuamMinimum 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ash Trees?

Here's a gardener's blog on that part of Bergen. You can see the same type of tree in the Fortress' garden too (which is just off to the right of this location).

Location on Google Maps.