AMS (or How I spent my Christmas Vacation) 2005-01-07 - By Tony Owen
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Nice work, David! The Geometry paint tool is perfect for "nernies".
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From: "David Angelini" <dpangelini@(protected)>
To: <truespace@(protected)>
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 6:26 AM
Subject: [TSML] AMS (or How I spent my Christmas Vacation)
> All,
>
> I just wanted to share some of my latest WIPs. What is interesting is
> that this scene has been an "on-again/off-again" project for literally
> the past 3 years. There has been more work put into this single scene
> than on any other that I have worked on, and a great majority of that work
> was thrown away only to start over again.
>
> In fact, pretty much everything was redone once again over the Christmas
> week break in what I could only call a severe case of AMS - Addictive
> Modelling Syndrome.
>
> Finally what made it in the final cut is below:
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~dianeangelini/Stills/chamber5.jpg
>
> And some detail shots:
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~dianeangelini/Stills/chamber_detail3.jpg
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~dianeangelini/Stills/chamber_detail4.jpg
>
> Though even with these WIP's, I realize that some of the textures somehow
> got inappropriately mapped and need to be redone and the lighting could
> be tweaked a bit, but for the most part, the modelling is 98% completed
> (if you have AMS, it never really is completed after all ;-).
>
> Some previous posts indicated that I was trying to load tS models into MAX
> to use the Greeble modifiier....the intent was to add some of the
> background detail that you see......
>
> ...well that approach was not satisfactory to me so this is all tS!!! And
> not one plugin was used. If finally dawned on me that the geometry paint
> function is the greatest tool ever made for sci-fi modelling!!!! For some
> reason I only thought it was good for painting trees on landscapes, but it
> has way many more uses than that and is very powerful. If it was not for
> that tool, this WIP would go on without ever being completed.
>
> I hope you like it.....as for me, I need to find a support group that
> deals with AMS sufferers such as myself.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave Angelini
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