Carl's Corner :)

The first one isn't Vista but second one is, vista does have a niffty way of seeing all the open screens and swapping but this look like it cover other things so would be good will download later Thanks Ron --- Do people call you Ronny

Just got submit email, I know it won't get wide use and probly go low pretty quick but hopeful somepeople will enjoy it

Ok no Ronnie - I guess Ronald would sound like I'm telling you off

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ronviers wrote: If I am ever going to be able to put your textures to work I have to stay focused.

can't wait to see you use them, I've got some other that I would happily privately give you if you had a texture need

LOL I must be transparent I did exactly that " ===== " when I was working on it but I lost my nerve and added Tracks

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ronviers wrote: That will be nice.

Just let me know what you want when you want it

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ronviers wrote: Let's see, a crusty, veiny, bumpy, translucent skin with two subsurface colors with cells and ligaments - I bet you have four of five of those.

I have something that needs modifying to suit but would I think [ not crusty mmmm have work on that ]

well I have this, that modified might work - do you see this as having possibility for you which I changed slightly to your request but it does need obvious fiddling to needs

as i say it would need work it was a fiddle put in the cellar, abandon unloved
here is the bump

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ronviers wrote: When it's time I will return for a serious consultation

No worries I handle rejection really well

Wow, that's much better! I especially like the color. I also like how the bumps go out in some areas and in in others. I would if that could be controlled. Are you using Chaffs? I hardly ever work with that.

i dont know what that is, carl, but it looks cool

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Carl wrote: hopefully not human though

Each creature will contain the consciousnesses of about 400 human souls - post Vinge's singularity of course.

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Carl wrote: so choose three

I see. I think I should wait until I get further along.

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Carl wrote: reluctant to call it Ron's Muscle

Don't do something you know you will regret later.

LOL I havn't heard that one before. So in reality the name would be misleading.

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Carl wrote: So should I have said Ron's Big Muscle

I will forego the details but suffice it to say that size was not the issue.

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Carl wrote: I'll have a read later

It is one of the most interesting things I have ever read. It has completely changed the way I view the future.

Hey Carl
It may give your tracks texture a broader appeal if you added a toggle tracks option. Say you wanted to texture a hillside, only one or two rows would need tracks, an option of disabling the tracks would allow you to generate the terrain and the tracks that all tile.
Would it be possible for you to make them cross? Having the tracks extend in a perpendicular direction might be very useful.
Something else I thought might be useful would be an option of blending from one type of terrain to another within a tile. This would allow the hillside to seamlessly go from grass to stone. Maybe this could be done simply with a linear gradient and orthogonal rotates and also with a four square checker with invert for tracks that crossed.
I do not think any of these things would add much render time but the would complicate things a bit.

So shiny

They look pretty cool

I think the wedding was this Saturday so she is probly recovering

Take a look at these wonderful sculptures when you get some time.

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StevieJ wrote: those samples look nice

Thanks! Too slow for prime time but I may find a use for them myself.

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StevieJ wrote: Quite a unique pattern you have there.

Practically anything that gets ran through twenty blend components is going to be unique. Not to mention slow.

I just watched the special features of 'The Thing'. It was a walkthrough with John Carpenter and Curt Russell. It was very interesting. That movie is much older than I remembered. For the time the graphics were not so bad. There was practically no cg back then. I really like the special features when the director chats about the movie while watching it.

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Kraellin wrote: from XNA or FF?

They are FF. I know next to nothing about XNA. Can that sort of thing be done with XNA? The training DVD I checked out was titled something like Real-time Shaders with XNA. Real time in cg usually translates to crappy. Imagine the processing power it would take to render the above texture samples in real time.

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StevieJ wrote: of all time

Even Star Wars! Remember what a big deal it was when it came out - I was fifteen. I still have a box of Star Wars magazines, posters and comic books somewhere.
Carpenter and Russel talk about how The Thing was released at the same time as ET and was mostly overshadowed by it - I just hated ET. I was so taken in by Alien and Blade Runner that when I saw The Thing I did not enjoy it as much as I should have.

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ronviers wrote: Take a look at these wonderful sculptures

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Kraellin wrote: like those sculptures you linked to. very cool,

Love them, I've got a friend who does similar, he virtually live at the recycle yard

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StevieJ wrote: Cheeks ahoy!!!

Right back at you buddy